Senior Talent Acquisition Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colorado, +4 more states.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of and enhance Black Spectacles’ talent acquisition framework continuously.

• Personally identify, engage, screen, assess, and secure candidates for leadership, niche, and challenging roles.

• Develop candidate pipelines through research, target-company mapping, proactive sourcing, customized outreach, referrals, networking, and ongoing talent-bench cultivation.

• Articulate the opportunity enticingly, build trust with candidates, and convey why Black Spectacles could be the ideal next step in their careers.

• Manage role scorecards, sourcing strategies, interview plans, behavioral and cognitive assessments, chronological career interviews, evaluation documents, structured references, debriefs, dashboards, and weekly reviews.

• Ensure adherence to hiring processes, track search progress, ensure hiring managers meet their responsibilities, and base decisions on evidence.

• Evaluate candidates for alignment with the role, manager, company stage, and long-term suitability.

• Identify deficiencies and suggest enhancements without compromising the established hiring philosophy with a one-size-fits-all approach.

• Build future talent pools before positions become critical.

• Assist hiring managers in defining role outcomes, preparing for interviews, assessing against scorecards, providing prompt evidence-based feedback, and avoiding decisions driven by urgency, charisma, or likability.

• Advance AI-driven workflows for candidate research, interview preparation, assessment integration, documentation, and hiring decisions while maintaining human judgment.

• Within 90 days, take charge of active searches, manage pipelines, set up scorecards and recruiting transparency, enhance the system, and clarify CEO involvement.

• Within six months, create future-role talent pools, refine sourcing and referral mechanisms, enhance AI recruiting workflows, and decrease dependency on external recruiting agencies.

• Within one year, lessen CEO involvement in daily recruiting, establish internal talent acquisition capabilities, enhance hiring decisions, and demonstrate quality of hire, retention, and role fit.

• Report directly to the CEO and manage the daily operations, application, measurement, and enhancement of the hiring system.

⛳️ Requirements

• Typically 8+ years of experience in talent acquisition or executive recruiting.

• Several years of hands-on experience sourcing and evaluating leadership, specialized, or hard-to-fill talent.

• Proven track record of attracting and securing passive candidates.

• Experience in owning a structured recruiting process.

• Proficiency in outbound sourcing, candidate outreach, screening, and pipeline management.

• Experience collaborating directly with founders, CEOs, or senior executives.

• Strong understanding of role scorecards, interview design, assessments, structured references, and evidence-based debriefs.

• Excellent talent judgment and the ability to constructively challenge unfounded conclusions.

• Willingness to manage the recruiting process personally rather than quickly delegating it.

• Formal training or certification in structured hiring or assessment systems is highly preferred.

• Experience utilizing behavioral or cognitive assessments in hiring decisions is strongly preferred.

• Familiarity with conducting chronological career interviews is strongly preferred.

• Experience leveraging AI to enhance recruiting and candidate evaluation is strongly preferred.

• Proven ability to take ownership of and enhance an established hiring system is strongly preferred.

• Experience in a founder-led, remote, SaaS, education, or professional services company is strongly preferred.

• Experience in building candidate pools prior to roles becoming open is strongly preferred.

• Must have authorization to work in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work From Home: Enjoy the flexibility of working remotely year-round.

• Comprehensive Benefits: Starting on day one, access to BCBS Health, Dental, Vision, Disability, and Life Insurance coverage.

• Savings & Retirement Plans: FSAs, HSAs, and a 401(k) plan with company match up to 4%.

• Referral Program: Earn rewards by referring top talent to our team.

• Team Building: Enjoy semi-annual team gatherings and events that foster collaboration and camaraderie.

• Companywide performance-based bonus program eligibility.