Updated: Mar 31, 2025 - The Talent Acquisition Lead develops and drives a comprehensive talent acquisition strategy in collaboration with key stakeholders, enhancing candidate attraction and quality across all stages. This role continuously assesses recruitment metrics and leverages data to refine hiring processes, providing regular insights and reports to inform strategic decisions. The lead also leads a dedicated team of recruiters, ensuring DE&I principles are embedded throughout the recruitment process.


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1. Talent Acquisition Lead, Bright Horizons, Denver, CO
Job Summary:
- Design and oversee the global rotational program, hiring, rotations, and placement processes.
- Consult with and coach rotational Associates on career goals and development.
- Oversee and administer performance management approach for all global rotational Associates.
- Create modern program communications and internal and external marketing.
- Work closely with Talent Acquisition to improve diversity within early career program hiring and internships.
- Build and maintain relationships with key talent pipeline-related diversity partnerships.
- Partner with the Recruiting team on-campus recruiting strategy and university relations.
- Benchmark talent pipeline programs to competition and industry best practices.
- Modernize programs in alignment with business needs and best practices.
- Create, document, and maintain talent pipeline program processes and procedures.
- Oversee global mentorship, soliciting mentors and providing guidance and support.
Skills on Resume:
- Program Design (Hard Skills)
- Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Performance Management (Hard Skills)
- Communication Strategies (Hard Skills)
- Diversity Initiatives (Soft Skills)
- Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
- Benchmarking (Hard Skills)
- Process Documentation (Hard Skills)
2. Talent Acquisition Lead, GreenTech Solutions, Austin, TX
Job Summary:
- Leverage passive sourcing techniques to identify and headhunt quality inactive candidates
- Build, manage, and maintain talent pools from both the passive and active job seeker market
- Determine the most effective recruitment strategies with hiring managers for each job
- Provide hiring manager support throughout the entire recruitment lifecycle, including preparing position descriptions, advertisements, and interview guides
- Conducting screening, interviews, and reference checks
- Manage the onboarding process including induction and orientation to ensure an exceptional employee experience
- Work closely with the growth team to lead talent branding content, initiatives, and related projects
- Ensure the quality of hiring, including the measuring and reporting of the successful hire rate
- Conduct new employee check-in surveys and interviews to ensure great employee experience and engagement
- Ensure continuous improvement by conducting exit interviews, assessing the data, and identifying initiatives to remedy
Skills on Resume:
- Passive Sourcing (Hard Skills)
- Talent Pool Management (Hard Skills)
- Recruitment Strategies (Hard Skills)
- Hiring Manager Support (Soft Skills)
- Screening and Interviewing (Hard Skills)
- Onboarding Management (Soft Skills)
- Talent Branding (Soft Skills)
- Employee Experience Improvement (Soft Skills)
3. Talent Acquisition Lead, Innovatech Industries, Orlando, FL
Job Summary:
- Serve as a talent acquisition business partner to Hiring Managers and HR BPs
- Developing and executing recruitment strategy with a strong emphasis on leveraging creative tools to identify passive talent for current and future needs
- Research and target new uncovered/hidden talent for executive and sector delivery
- Source passive talent through a variety of channels and using diverse sourcing tools and techniques
- Help to deliver sourcing and market intel plans, built by Market Intel Europe lead
- Evaluate candidate fit by engaging both technical and behavioral interviewing techniques, as well as unconventional techniques to identify exceptional talent
- Extract relevant data from different sources to build the sourcing narratives, including market and competitor intelligence
- Effectively partner with the TA Operations team to ensure all candidate/hiring manager coordination activities run efficiently and effectively
- Organize and lead post-interview debrief sessions with interview teams and candidates
- Extend offers of employment in collaboration with HR
- Maintain timely, accurate documentation of all candidates, searches, hiring manager interactions, and other recruiting activities
Skills on Resume:
- Talent Acquisition Partnership (Soft Skills)
- Recruitment Strategy Development (Hard Skills)
- Talent Research (Hard Skills)
- Sourcing Techniques (Hard Skills)
- Market Intelligence Delivery (Hard Skills)
- Candidate Evaluation (Hard Skills)
- Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Coordination and Documentation (Soft Skills)
4. Talent Acquisition Lead, Apex Consulting Group, Charlotte, NC
Job Summary:
- Post job openings on various job sites and understand the best way to source for the respective requirements.
- Be responsible for stakeholder management
- Take responsibility for end-to-end hiring.
- Ensure good candidate experience
- Manage and set up interviews as per demands.
- Communicate with candidates promptly and assist them when they come in for interviews.
- Assist other recruiters, hiring teams, and candidates to enable a smooth hiring process.
- Help the company find and hire the most qualified people for open roles.
- Report on program challenges and successes.
- Oversee and maintain program budgets, and metrics.
- Identify opportunities to improve the current process and propose new ways to attract the IT best talent.
Skills on Resume:
- Job Posting (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Management (Soft Skills)
- End-to-End Hiring (Hard Skills)
- Candidate Experience (Soft Skills)
- Interview Coordination (Hard Skills)
- Candidate Communication (Soft Skills)
- Recruitment Support (Soft Skills)
- Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
5. Talent Acquisition Lead, Fusion Media, Portland, OR
Job Summary:
- Lead the full cycle recruiting experience, from talent sourcing and attracting candidates to interviewing and hiring great people.
- Engage in global recruitment projects as capacity allows.
- Partner with senior leaders to understand hiring objectives and develop recruiting strategies to hit headcount goals.
- Manage the ATS to ensure efficient recruitment systems and processes are in place.
- Drive process efficiencies and standardization to seamlessly scale hiring.
- Help create diversity strategies for specific teams and roles.
- Leverage data to define success metrics, and productivity, and inform process optimization.
- Deploy innovative sourcing strategies to uncover great talent.
- Review, assess, and process candidates to ensure continuous pipeline health and hiring momentum.
- Create and implement engaging recruiting strategies.
- Take steps to ensure a positive candidate experience, even for unsuccessful candidates.
Skills on Resume:
- Full Cycle Recruiting (Hard Skills)
- Global Recruitment Engagement (Soft Skills)
- Strategic Partnership (Soft Skills)
- ATS Management (Hard Skills)
- Process Efficiency (Hard Skills)
- Diversity Strategy Development (Hard Skills)
- Data Analysis for Metrics (Hard Skills)
- Candidate Experience Management (Soft Skills)
6. Talent Acquisition Lead, ClearPath Logistics, Nashville, TN
Job Summary:
- Oversee US hiring for both New York and San Francisco offices.
- Partner with the HR Manager in the San Francisco office to attract local talent
- Design and execute end-to-end talent acquisition strategies that ensure the quality of the candidate experience, strengthen the recruitment brand, and are responsive to the overall needs of the business
- Partner with hiring managers from Geneva to fill their open US role
- Identify trends in employer branding and talent acquisition and implement creative ways to develop strong talent pipelines
- Partner with members of the Forum’s ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) to develop recruiting plans aimed at having a broader reach to diverse candidates designed to increase diverse representation in the candidate pool
- Assess Talent Acquisition’s programs and processes and identify areas for optimization and alignment across t hiring planning, sourcing, selection, and offer processes.
- Partner with the Head of People and Culture USA and the Head of Talent and People Development in Geneva to develop and implement an Employer Branding Program
- Align Forum HR policies and practices to the needs of both US offices and ensure that these are consistent with local and state regulatory/legislative employment requirements
- Partner with the People and Culture USA Operations team to ensure visas, relocations, onboarding, etc. are all properly managed
- Develop and provide interviewing training for hiring managers
Skills on Resume:
- US Hiring Oversight (Hard Skills)
- Local Talent Attraction (Soft Skills)
- Talent Acquisition Strategy Design (Hard Skills)
- Employer Branding Trends (Hard Skills)
- Diversity Recruitment Planning (Soft Skills)
- Process Optimization (Hard Skills)
- Employer Branding Program Development (Soft Skills)
- Interview Training (Soft Skills)
7. Talent Acquisition Lead, Quantum Technologies, Phoenix, AZ
Job Summary:
- Providing highly effective and efficient recruitment and selection services throughout the Russia & CIS Market while ensuring cost-effective recruitment strategies to attract and hire talent
- Managing full cycle recruitment process, which includes sourcing, reviewing of CVs, conducting interviews, interview coordination, and offer processes for all level roles within the Market
- Manage Group middle and senior management roles liaising with international stakeholders and acting as part of the EMEA TA team
- Developing consultative relationships with business stakeholders
- Be one of the key members of the CEE TA team to roll best in class processes and recruitment programs, at the same time taking part in the EMEA Talent Acquisition Leadership Team
- Design and implement Market recruitment strategy and provide thought leadership to address Talent Acquisition challenges and improvement needs, within the framework of the global guidelines
- Driving operational excellence across the Market
- Training Hiring Managers and key stakeholders on the best methods for candidate selection
- Designing and implementing employer branding strategies
- Providing insight into the talent market
Skills on Resume:
- Recruitment Services (Hard Skills)
- Full Cycle Recruitment Management (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Liaison (Soft Skills)
- Consultative Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
- Recruitment Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Operational Excellence (Hard Skills)
- Training Delivery (Soft Skills)
- Employer Branding Strategy (Hard Skills)
8. Talent Acquisition Lead, Silverline Systems, Minneapolis, MN
Job Summary:
- Working closely with key stakeholders to create a strong talent acquisition strategy
- Creating, executing, and tracking the success of candidate attraction campaigns
- Own and iterate hiring processes prioritising quality at every stage
- Recommend new channels or techniques to source new talent
- Track team's data and continually highlight opportunities for improvement
- Monitor team KPI activity and deliver against personal OKRs
- Feedback market information and insights to relevant Hiring Managers/team members and actively use this to improve and shape hiring in Automata
- Contribute to hiring meetings and lead new role kick-off meetings
- Build data and feedback into strategy and create regular reports for the Head of People
- Build a DE&I culture, making sure it is part of the recruitment process
- Manage and develop a small team (3-4) of mid-level recruiters
Skills on Resume:
- Talent Acquisition Strategy (Soft Skills)
- Candidate Attraction Campaigns (Hard Skills)
- Hiring Process Management (Hard Skills)
- Talent Sourcing Techniques (Hard Skills)
- Data Tracking and Analysis (Hard Skills)
- KPI Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- DE&I Culture Building (Soft Skills)
- Team Management (Soft Skills)