Talent Acquisition Manager

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

📋 Description

• Recruit, onboard, and oversee 1099 contracted recruiters and W-2 clinical recruiters continuously to enhance team capacity during peak periods; manage the contracting process, performance standards, and offboarding for contract personnel.

• Establish and enforce weekly, sprint-based, and quarterly performance benchmarks for all team members — both W-2 and 1099 — which include sourcing output, outreach initiatives, pipeline conversion, and time-to-fill metrics.

• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings and team discussions aimed at monitoring pipeline health, resolving obstacles, and providing individual coaching.

• Foster and maintain a team culture that emphasizes accountability, urgency, and genuine concern for both candidates and clients.

• Supervise comprehensive recruiting operations across more than 7 states with additional markets planned for the future.

• Collaborate with regional leaders and clinical directors to translate workforce requirements into proactive, market-specific hiring strategies.

• Work alongside clinical leadership to grasp discipline-specific role requirements, caseload expectations, and success profiles for clinicians in various markets.

• Develop and uphold a structured interview facilitation process for all roles and markets, which includes standardized scorecards, interviewer guidelines, and hiring decision frameworks.

• Regularly update and enhance job descriptions, postings, and outreach templates for all roles and markets.

• Create candidate-facing communication frameworks that effectively guide leads through the funnel while maintaining the personal, relationship-driven approach that sets Thrive apart.

• Construct a library of objection-handling scripts, role-specific value propositions, and market-specific talking points for recruiter utilization.

• Direct candidate closing strategies and personally engage high-priority or hesitant candidates to finalize offers.

• Develop onboarding-to-close communication sequences that keep accepted candidates engaged from offer acceptance to start date, minimizing pre-start drop-off.

• Travel to high-stakes regions during critical hiring periods to lead on-site sourcing efforts, participate in career fairs, and establish connections with university training programs.

• Build a referral and pipeline network through professional associations (ASHA, AOTA, APTA, NASP, CEC) and school-based therapy programs.

• Own all recruiting KPIs and reporting structures—including time-to-fill, offer acceptance rates, pipeline velocity, source-of-hire, candidate drop-off rates, and recruiter performance scorecards.

• Create and maintain dashboards that provide the Executive Leadership Team and recruiting group with real-time insights into pipeline health.

• Utilize AI-driven sourcing tools, ATS workflows (Fountain), and recruitment automation to enhance throughput while preserving candidate quality and experience.

• Analyze data to identify bottlenecks in real time and adjust strategies as necessary, rather than waiting until the end of the quarter.

• Perform continuous assessments of job board expenditures (Indeed and others) to optimize ROI and redirect investments towards the highest-converting sources based on market and discipline.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including at least 2–3 years in a leadership or management role within recruiting.

• Proven experience managing high-volume recruiting environments (100+ simultaneous requisitions).

• Background in recruiting within both healthcare and K–12 education sectors — possessing an understanding of the rhythms, constraints, licensure requirements, and culture of both fields.

• Experience with school-based therapy staffing, pediatric healthcare, or special education staffing is strongly preferred (e.g., SLP, OT, PT, School Psychology, BCBA, or Special Education Teacher recruitment).

• Prior experience in managing relationships with 1099 or contract recruiters, including onboarding, performance oversight, and contract termination.

• Proficiency with ATS platforms (experience with Fountain is a significant advantage) and sourcing tools (such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, and specialized clinical and education job boards).

• Familiarity with AI-driven sourcing tools, recruitment automation platforms, and pipeline analytics dashboards.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive, employer-paid health insurance (medical, dental, vision).

• 401(k) with company match.