Senior Recruiting Manager, Advanced Effects

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the complete talent acquisition strategy for a designated Business Line, encompassing headcount planning, demand management, requisition prioritization, and achieving hiring targets.

• Provide guidance to Business Line leadership by leveraging market intelligence, hiring data, and capacity models to inform the talent roadmap.

• Establish and oversee hiring objectives, service level agreements (SLAs), and success metrics; present pipeline health, risks, and capacity through dashboards and business reviews.

• Collaborate with Division BizOps, Finance, and Workforce Planning on headcount distribution, budget considerations, hiring sequences, and shifts in demand.

• Manage hiring progress reporting and act as the main escalation point for any hiring obstacles.

• Set standards for recruiting in terms of sourcing, candidate engagement, assessments, and closing processes.

• Actively engage in recruiting for a specific portfolio to retain market expertise.

• Spearhead cross-functional hiring initiatives, including surge efforts, batch hiring days, high-volume campaigns, and ramp-to-milestone sprints.

• Provide direct leadership and support for recruiters, focusing on performance management, coaching, mentorship, career development, and structured feedback.

• Oversee recruiter allocation, capacity, and performance tracking.

• Cultivate a high-performance culture centered on skill development, collaboration, data discipline, and enhancing the experience for both candidates and hiring managers.

• Ensure consistency in role intakes, interview processes, compensation calibration, and overall candidate experience.

• Advocate for collaboration across Business Lines and facilitate candidate sharing.

• Identify process inefficiencies, hiring obstacles, and systemic challenges, developing sustainable solutions to address them.

• Collaborate with Recruiting Operations to explore tooling, reporting, and automation opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of progressive experience in talent acquisition, with substantial involvement in managing a business unit’s hiring strategy.

• Fully self-sufficient, demonstrating the ability to partner with and influence stakeholders at the VP level.

• Proven experience in full-cycle recruiting within a complex technical environment.

• Strong business acumen that connects hiring outcomes to program milestones, revenue commitments, and capacity models.

• Exceptional analytical skills with experience utilizing data to prioritize tasks, convey insights to leadership, and ensure accountability for outcomes.

• Experience in leading hiring initiatives beyond individual searches, such as surge campaigns, batch hiring, portfolio prioritization, and capacity planning.

• Capability to operate independently in ambiguous situations and manage competing priorities with sound judgment and minimal oversight.

• Preferred: experience in frontier technology, defense, aerospace, or advanced manufacturing, including understanding clearance requirements, site-based hiring, and program-driven demand.

• Preferred: direct experience managing or leading a team of recruiters.

• Preferred: experience collaborating with BizOps, Finance, and HR Business Partners on workforce planning, budget alignment, and headcount governance.

• Preferred: a formal background in program or project management, such as PMP or Agile methodologies.

• Preferred: experience in scaling recruiting operations during periods of high growth or organizational change.

• Preferred: a proven track record of developing recruiters through coaching, mentoring, or management.

🏝️ Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants included in most full-time offers.

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees.

• Health, recovery, and additional employee support benefits.