Skilled Trades Recruiting Team Leader

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

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of recruiters focused on skilled trades hiring for various clients.

• Establish clear expectations, monitor performance, provide constructive feedback, and ensure improvements are made.

• Take charge of the team's recruiting performance and analyze the reasons for any delays in hiring outcomes.

• Translate the Client Success Manager’s client and job-level strategy into recruiting priorities, actions, and standards.

• Ensure that recruiters are well-informed about hiring priorities, criteria for qualified candidates, sourcing strategies, obstacles, next steps, and measures of success.

• Maintain oversight of recruiting pipelines and identify candidates who are stalled, weak candidate flow, delayed follow-up, poor conversion rates, and inconsistent pipeline management.

• Ensure that recruiters expedite the candidate process and keep system information accurate.

• Safeguard candidate quality by assessing experience, qualifications, communication skills, motivation, compensation expectations, availability, and cultural fit.

• Establish consistent recruiting standards throughout the team.

• Collaborate with Client Success, recruiting operations, sourcing, support, and leadership to eliminate hiring obstacles and enhance results.

• Report directly to the Client Success Manager and work together on client and job-level recruiting strategy.

• Leverage pipeline data, candidate interactions, market trends, and client feedback to inform recruiting decisions.

• Identify performance issues early, suggest modifications, and guide the team through corrective actions.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of three years of experience in recruiting or talent acquisition.

• Demonstrated experience in full-cycle recruiting.

• Strong knowledge of sourcing, screening, candidate evaluation, pipeline management, and hiring processes.

• Experience in mentoring, coaching, or leading recruiters is highly preferred.

• Excellent proficiency in written and spoken English.

• Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to analyze recruiting metrics and identify performance issues.

• Capability to lead a remote team while maintaining accountability.

• Proficient in working closely with a CSM to implement established client and job-level strategies.

• Strong organizational skills and follow-through across multiple clients and job openings.

• Reliable internet connection with a contingency plan for power or internet disruptions.

• Preferred experience in recruiting for skilled trades, construction, home services, or other blue-collar roles.

• Preferred experience managing recruitment across multiple clients, locations, or job openings.

• Familiarity with HubSpot, Recruitee, Slack, and Google Workspace is strongly preferred.

• Experience utilizing AI tools to enhance recruiting execution and team productivity is strongly preferred.

• Experience in using recruiting metrics and pipeline data for performance coaching is strongly preferred.

• Preferred experience in a fast-paced, high-accountability work environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Blue Cross Blue Shield medical insurance with comprehensive plan coverage.

• Flexible PTO, typically ranging from 12 to 15 days.

• Standard company holidays.

• Twelve weeks of maternity leave.

• Fully remote work environment.