Talent Acquisition Specialist

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the complete recruiting process for technical, professional, and leadership roles across various offices, disciplines, locations, and experience levels.

• Conduct in-depth intake meetings to clarify business needs, qualifications, candidate profiles, decision-making processes, timelines, and success metrics.

• Develop and implement search strategies utilizing direct sourcing, talent mapping, referrals, professional networks, targeted research, and recruiting platforms.

• Craft personalized outreach messages for candidates.

• Handle job postings, applicant management, phone screenings, interview coordination, feedback collection, reference checks, offer negotiations, and search documentation within SmartRecruiters.

• Juggle multiple searches while ensuring clear and timely communication with hiring teams and candidates.

• Build trusted relationships with hiring managers and operational leaders.

• Leverage market research, sourcing results, candidate feedback, compensation data, and recruiting analytics to assess search viability and inform decisions.

• Suggest modifications to qualifications, compensation, titles, geography, interview methods, or timelines as needed.

• Establish consistent and job-relevant evaluation criteria.

• Utilize knowledge of architecture, engineering, construction, consulting, or related technical talent markets.

• Create talent maps and gather competitive intelligence.

• Foster and maintain relationships with passive candidates.

• Translate market insights into actionable guidance for hiring teams and messaging for prospective candidates.

• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition colleagues, coordinators, and administrative or operational staff.

• Enhance recruiting workflows, technology utilization, data quality, candidate engagement, and hiring team practices.

• Participate in recruiting and employer branding initiatives.

• Attend occasional team meetings, recruiting events, and office visits as necessary.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including the management of complex or hard-to-fill searches.

• Direct recruiting experience in architecture, engineering, construction, consulting, or a closely related technical field is highly preferred.

• Proven experience in sourcing and engaging passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean searches, talent mapping, professional networks, ATS or CRM databases, and additional research techniques.

• Experience collaborating with hiring managers and business leaders to identify needs, develop recruiting strategies, assess market conditions, and modify search requirements.

• Ability to independently manage multiple searches across various disciplines, stakeholders, locations, priorities, and timelines.

• Strong judgment and confidence in providing recommendations, voicing concerns, and respectfully challenging assumptions.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong organizational skills and ability to follow through on tasks.

• Experience utilizing recruiting data, sourcing results, candidate feedback, and market intelligence to evaluate effectiveness and inform decisions.

• Proficiency in an Applicant Tracking System and recruiting technology.

• Experience with SmartRecruiters is a plus.

• Comfort in a decentralized work environment.

• Collaborative and inquisitive mindset with the ability to build influence through trust.

• Must reside in the United States and be able to work standard business hours aligned with the Pacific or Mountain Time Zones.

• A reliable internet connection and a professional setting suitable for virtual meetings.

• Must have authorization to work in the United States without employer-sponsored visa support, both now and in the future.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical Plan Options: Choose between Traditional PPO or HDHP with HSA, including preventive care and prescription coverage.

• Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses.

• Dental and vision insurance.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Company-sponsored life insurance amounting to one year's salary.

• Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) coverage.

• 401(k) retirement plan with KPFF contributing 3% of salary without requiring employee contribution.

• Coverage for short-term and long-term disabilities.

• Paid Time Off (PTO), two floating holidays, and recognized company holidays.

• Six weeks of paid family leave at 60% pay, with the option to supplement using available PTO.

• Remote work position.

• Option to work onsite or in a hybrid arrangement for team members located near a KPFF office.

• Opportunities for professional development and ongoing skill enhancement.