Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle, including intake meetings, sourcing, candidate screening, interview coordination, offer negotiation, and onboarding transition.
• Partner directly with executives, senior leaders, and hiring managers to understand organizational priorities, position requirements, team dynamics, and long-term hiring needs.
• Recruit for a broad range of professional positions across Human Resources, business operations, government affairs, public policy, communications, administration, and other corporate functions.
• Develop customized recruiting strategies for complex, highly visible, and leadership-facing searches.
• Serve as a trusted talent advisor by providing hiring managers with market intelligence, candidate availability, compensation insights, and recommendations throughout the search process.
• Build and maintain strong pipelines of passive and active candidates through direct sourcing, networking, referrals, professional associations, and external recruiting platforms.
• Deliver a highly professional candidate experience that reflects the organization's values, culture, and executive presence.
• Conduct detailed candidate evaluations focused on professional experience, leadership capabilities, communication skills, business judgment, and organizational fit.
• Manage offer development and negotiation in partnership with Human Resources, compensation teams, and business leadership.
• Maintain accurate recruiting activity, candidate records, interview feedback, and hiring documentation within the Applicant Tracking System.
• Monitor recruiting metrics, pipeline health, hiring progress, and time-to-fill while providing clear updates to business leaders.
• Support recruiting process improvements, employer branding initiatives, workforce planning activities, and broader talent acquisition programs.

Day to Day Responsibilities

• Lead intake meetings with hiring managers and executives to define position scope, required qualifications, preferred experience, and candidate evaluation criteria.
• Source and engage qualified candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, professional networks, referrals, targeted outreach, and internal talent pipelines.
• Conduct comprehensive recruiter interviews and present well-qualified candidate profiles to hiring teams.
• Prepare candidates for interviews by providing clear information regarding the organization, position, leadership team, and selection process.
• Coordinate interviews across multiple stakeholders while maintaining timely and professional communication with candidates and hiring teams.
• Facilitate candidate debrief meetings and help hiring managers evaluate qualifications, executive presence, communication style, and overall fit.
• Manage multiple professional and leadership-level searches simultaneously while maintaining attention to detail and urgency.
• Draft and deliver candidate communications, interview updates, offer details, and other recruiting-related correspondence.
• Build strong relationships with candidates, executives, hiring managers, HR partners, and other internal stakeholders.
• Track recruiting activity and prepare status reports, pipeline summaries, hiring metrics, and executive-level updates.
• Maintain confidentiality and professional discretion when supporting sensitive, high-profile, or leadership-level searches.
• Stay informed on relevant labor market conditions, recruiting trends, candidate expectations, and competitive hiring practices.

Preferred Experience and Attributes

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting or talent acquisition experience supporting professional, corporate, or leadership-level positions.
• Demonstrated experience recruiting across Human Resources, business operations, government affairs, public policy, communications, administrative leadership, or related functions.
• Experience managing the complete recruiting process from initial intake through accepted offer and onboarding transition.
• Proven ability to communicate confidently and professionally with executives, senior leaders, hiring managers, and high-level candidates.
• Strong executive presence with exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to understand complex business needs and translate them into effective sourcing and candidate evaluation strategies.
• Experience recruiting for positions requiring discretion, political awareness, sound judgment, and strong stakeholder management.
• Strong direct sourcing capabilities with experience identifying and engaging passive professional talent.
• Experience presenting candidate profiles, market data, and recruiting recommendations to senior leadership.
• Strong negotiation skills with experience managing offers, compensation discussions, and candidate expectations.
• Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems, LinkedIn Recruiter, and other recruiting and sourcing technologies.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and searches simultaneously.
• High level of professionalism, confidentiality, emotional intelligence, and attention to detail.
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Communications, Political Science, or a related field is preferred.