Senior Lead Recruiter

Talent Edge Recruiting | Player-Coach Opportunity | Path to Management

Love Recruiting, But Ready for Something Bigger?

You're a successful recruiter. You know how to source exceptional talent, build meaningful relationships, and make placements happen.

But you're ready for more.

You want to mentor others, have a voice in business decisions, influence recruiting strategy, and help build something bigger than your own desk.

What if you could take the next step toward leadership without giving up the part of recruiting you love most?

Talent Edge Recruiting is growing, and we're looking for a dynamic, high-performing Senior Lead Recruiter who wants to continue producing while developing into a leadership role. This is a true player-coach opportunity for someone who thrives on recruiting, enjoys developing others, and wants to play an instrumental role in expanding our team.

You'll work directly alongside our Managing Director of Recruitment, helping strengthen recruiting operations, develop junior recruiters, implement processes, and shape the future of our organization.

We're not looking for someone who simply wants a management title. We're looking for someone who wants to earn a leadership seat by making an impact.

Who We Are

Talent Edge Recruiting is a growing staffing and recruiting firm backed by an established outsourced accounting organization.

We partner with organizations across diverse industries, specializing in:

• Accounting & Finance
• Human Resources & Administration
• Marketing & Professional Services
• Construction & Manufacturing
• Skilled Trades & Technical Positions
• Operations & Industrial Leadership

We're a women-managed, relationship-driven organization built on integrity, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Our team is ambitious, hardworking, and deeply committed to delivering exceptional results for our clients and candidates.

As we continue to scale, we're investing in the people and processes that will take us to the next level.

The Opportunity

We're looking for someone who wants to operate as both a top-producing recruiter and an emerging leader. You'll own a full recruiting desk, manage candidate relationships, and drive placements while partnering directly with the Managing Director of Recruitment to build a stronger, more efficient, and higher-performing recruiting team.

You'll have the opportunity to mentor junior recruiters, contribute to recruiting strategy, improve internal processes, and help establish the foundation for future team growth.

The long-term goal? Develop into a formal recruiting management role as the business continues to expand.

We want someone who can balance individual production with team development—someone who leads by example, shares knowledge freely, and genuinely enjoys helping others succeed.

What You'll Do

Own Your Desk & Drive Results

• Manage full-cycle recruiting across multiple professional, technical, and operational disciplines.
• Develop creative sourcing strategies to identify and engage exceptional active and passive candidates.
• Build and maintain long-term candidate relationships and strategic talent pipelines.
• Conduct thorough candidate assessments, interviews, and qualification screenings.
• Partner closely with Account Managers to understand hiring needs, establish priorities, and deliver high-quality candidates.
• Manage candidate submissions, interview preparation, offer coordination, and placement activities.
• Consistently achieve individual recruiting production goals while maintaining an exceptional candidate experience.
• Lead by example through strong recruiting execution, urgency, accountability, and results.

Mentor, Coach & Develop Recruiters

• Serve as a resource and mentor to junior recruiters, helping strengthen sourcing strategies, candidate engagement, and recruiting execution.
• Provide hands-on coaching, feedback, and guidance to help recruiters improve performance.
• Share recruiting best practices, sourcing techniques, and creative approaches to challenging searches.
• Support onboarding and training initiatives for new recruiters.
• Help identify skill gaps, development opportunities, and areas where additional training is needed.
• Foster a collaborative, supportive environment where recruiters feel empowered to ask questions, learn, and grow.
• Lead through influence, collaboration, and personal example.

Partner with Leadership & Help Build the Business

• Work directly alongside the Managing Director of Recruitment to strengthen recruiting operations and team performance.
• Help develop, implement, and refine recruiting processes, workflows, and best practices.
• Identify operational inefficiencies and recommend solutions that improve productivity, quality, and consistency.
• Contribute to recruiting strategy, team initiatives, and departmental planning.
• Help establish repeatable processes that support onboarding, recruiter development, and future team expansion.
• Provide insights into candidate markets, sourcing challenges, and recruiting performance.
• Support initiatives focused on increasing recruiter productivity, improving candidate experience, and scaling the organization.
• Act as a collaborative bridge between recruiting leadership and the broader recruiting team.

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of recruiting experience, preferably within a staffing or recruiting agency.
• Proven success as a full-cycle recruiter with a consistent track record of placements and production.
• 2+ years of management experience.
• Strong sourcing capabilities, including LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean searches, networking, and passive candidate engagement.
• Experience recruiting across multiple professional or technical disciplines.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple requisitions while maintaining quality and urgency.
• Strong candidate relationship management and communication skills.
• Experience mentoring, training, or informally coaching other recruiters.
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and follow-through.
• Comfortable using ATS platforms, recruiting tools, and technology to drive efficiency.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify opportunities for process improvement.

Who You Are

We're intentional about who we bring onto our team, especially when it comes to future leaders.

You're someone who is:

• A Producer First: You love recruiting, thrive on the hunt, and aren't looking to step away from making placements.
• A Natural Leader: People gravitate toward you for guidance. You enjoy sharing knowledge, developing others, and helping your teammates succeed.
• Strategic & Forward-Thinking: You see the bigger picture, recognize opportunities for improvement, and think beyond your individual desk.
• Relationship-Driven: You understand that great recruiting is built on trust, communication, and genuine relationships.
• Collaborative & Team-Oriented: You know that individual success matters, but building a high-performing team creates even greater results.
• Coachable & Self-Aware: You welcome feedback, recognize opportunities for personal growth, and understand that strong leaders never stop learning.
• Proactive & Solutions-Oriented: You don't wait for someone to identify a problem or tell you what to do. You bring ideas, take initiative, and help implement solutions.
• Accountable & Reliable: You lead by example, follow through on commitments, and take ownership of your results.
• Adaptable & Resourceful: You embrace change, navigate competing priorities, and are comfortable operating in a growing organization.
• Humble, Confident & Approachable: You bring experience to the table without ego and understand that leadership is about developing people, not just directing them.
• Ambitious & Growth-Minded: You want more responsibility, greater influence, and the opportunity to build a long-term career in recruiting leadership.

Our Culture

At Talent Edge Recruiting, we're a women-managed staffing firm built on collaboration, transparency, integrity, and accountability. We're a relationship-driven team that values open communication, constructive feedback, and people who genuinely want to see each other succeed.

We work hard, move quickly, and hold ourselves to high standards—but we also believe in celebrating wins, supporting one another, and having fun along the way.

As we continue to grow, we're focused on building stronger processes, developing our people, and creating a culture where high performers have the opportunity to take on greater responsibility.

We don't believe leadership is defined by a title. We believe it's demonstrated through initiative, accountability, collaboration, and the ability to elevate others.

We're looking for someone who shares that philosophy and wants to help shape the next chapter of Talent Edge.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

• Clear path toward recruiting management with direct exposure to departmental leadership.
• Work side by side with the Managing Director of Recruitment to influence strategy, team development, and business growth.
• True player-coach role combining individual recruiting production with mentoring and leadership responsibilities.
• Opportunity to help build and develop a growing recruiting team.
• Meaningful involvement in creating processes, improving efficiencies, and shaping recruiting operations.
• Established client relationships and consistent recruiting opportunities.
• No business development responsibilities—stay focused on recruiting, candidate relationships, and team development.
• Collaborative, supportive environment that values initiative and fresh ideas.
• High-growth organization with long-term advancement potential.
• Opportunity to make a measurable impact beyond individual placements.

Benefits

• Medical benefits available after a 30-day waiting period
• HMO and PPO medical plan options
• Company pays approximately 90% of employee premiums on the base HMO plan
• Multiple medical plan options
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k) after 90 days with company matching plus an additional company contribution equal to 10% of your contribution
• Dental and vision insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability

Come help us build the future of Talent Edge Recruiting—while building your own path to leadership!