About This Role
The Senior Talent Director develops and executes integrated talent strategies that support client demand, business growth, and workforce capability across assigned markets. This role blends talent acquisition and talent management, overseeing the full talent lifecycle from identification, attraction, and assessment through engagement, deployment, development, redeployment, and retention. As a hands-on senior contributor, the Senior Talent Director partners closely with Sales to ensure RGP has access to the right internal and external talent at the right time while delivering a strong experience for candidates, consultants, clients, and internal stakeholders.
Salary: $138,000 - $173,000
Other Compensation: Incentive Compensation
What You Will Work On
- Develop and execute talent strategies aligned with business priorities, client demand, workforce trends, and growth objectives.
- Partner with Sales to anticipate talent demand, identify capability gaps, generate market intelligence, and surface revenue opportunities within current and prospective clients.
- Serve as a senior talent advisor on more complex or high-priority client needs, bringing sound judgment, talent insight, and consultative recommendations to the hiring and deployment process.
- Recommend the most effective talent solution, including redeployment of existing consultants, engagement of internal talent, or external acquisition.
- Build and maintain strong internal and external talent networks across priority industries, functional areas, and markets.
- Lead full-cycle recruiting across Finance, Accounting, and Technology roles, including sourcing, in-depth candidate interviews, talent assessment, selection, offer negotiation, and onboarding of consulting talent.
- Maintain accurate candidate records and recruitment activity within the Applicant Tracking System, ensuring data integrity, compliance, and clear stakeholder visibility throughout the hiring process.
- Develop proactive external pipelines to support immediate project needs, current opportunities, and anticipated client demand.
- Maintain a strong understanding of consultant capabilities, career interests, development goals, availability, and mobility to align talent with client opportunities.
- Build trusted consultant relationships, serving as a career partner and supporting engagement, development, retention, and redeployment.
- Partner across Talent, Sales, and Consulting to match consultant skills and experience with client needs and accelerate deployment.
- Monitor talent supply, pipeline health, deployment activity, retention trends, and workforce gaps to identify risks and opportunities.
- Provide senior-level perspective on talent trends, pipeline quality, consultant availability, and delivery risks to help prioritize actions and strengthen outcomes.
- Deliver a strong experience for candidates, consultants, clients, and internal stakeholders through timely communication, sound judgment, and consistent follow-through.
- Act as a senior resource to peers by sharing best practices, talent insights, sourcing approaches, and process guidance. Drive continuous improvement through process optimization, effective use of technology, operational discipline, and data-driven decision-making.
What You Will Bring
- Bachelor's degree from a four-year accredited institution is preferred.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in talent acquisition is required in staffing, consulting, or professional services. Talent management experience is highly preferred.
- Experience recruiting accounting, finance, or technology professionals is required.
- Demonstrated success developing talent strategies that support client demand, workforce needs, and business growth.
- Strong expertise in internal and external sourcing, talent assessment, workforce planning, consultant engagement, deployment, and retention.
- Experience building high-quality talent networks and pipelines across multiple skill sets, industries, or markets.
- Experience working with modern talent acquisition technology, including ATS platforms and sourcing tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter and hireEZ, with the ability to use data and systems to manage pipeline activity, improve sourcing effectiveness, and support stakeholder visibility.
- Proven ability to develop trusted relationships with business leaders, consultants, candidates, clients, and cross-functional partners, with the credibility to influence decisions.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to translate client and market needs into practical talent solutions.
- Excellent communication, influencing, negotiation, coaching, stakeholder management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Results-oriented, consultative, and accountable, with the ability to balance strategic talent leadership, hands-on execution, sound prioritization, and urgency in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
- Based in the local market, with the ability to regularly engage in office-based collaboration, local networking, and client or market events as needed.
What You Can Expect
- An inspirational place for you to do your best work, be engaged in meaningful ways, and continually develop the skills, competencies and qualities that set our team apart.
- Compensation commensurate with your qualifications, experience, and other factors, including geographic location, market and operational factors.
- Total Rewards based on eligibility include: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, 401(k) Savings Plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Professional Development Program, Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays and Paid Sick Time (in geographies where legally required).
