Blue Origin

Sr. Client Lead Recruiter

Blue Origin$134K — $188K *
Staffing
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of corporate and/or search firm recruiting experience
  • 3+ years managing and influencing VP/Director-level stakeholders
  • Proficiency with ATS and candidate relationship tools; strong MS Office skills
  • Experience managing multiple searches in a fast-paced environment
  • Data-driven approach to recruitment metrics and forecasts
  • Experience with multi-channel sourcing strategies and employer branding
  • Strong executive communication skills for memos and strategy documents

Responsibilities

  • Own client relationships with assigned business groups and manage escalations
  • Develop and implement strategic hiring plans for business unit needs
  • Ensure exceptional candidate experience throughout the recruitment process
  • Lead offer strategy, including creation, extension, and negotiation
  • Drive recruiting operations rhythm through demand planning and reporting
  • Continuously improve TA processes, tools, and workflows based on feedback
  • Collaborate with peers and partner teams to enhance candidate and customer experiences

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance options
  • Paid parental leave and short/long-term disability coverage
  • 401(k) with company match up to 5%
  • Stock options for all employees working at least 20 hours/week
  • Up to four weeks of paid time off plus 14 company-paid holidays
  • Education Support Program for ongoing learning and development
Full Job Description
Application close date:
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

This role is part of Blue Origin corporate functions, providing centralized support across Blue Origin business unit teams, functions, and locations.

The Sr. Client Lead Recruiter is a strategic partner to the business team they support. They are responsible for understanding and aligning the organization's talent needs with its goals, inclusive of prioritizing roles, forecasting, and setting benchmarks to successfully fill demand within the requested timeframes. This role involves closing candidates, overseeing the recruitment process, creating reporting, and ensuring a seamless candidate experience. The Sr. Client Lead Recruiter is also tasked with driving talent strategy, managing requisitions, and continuously improving operational excellence within the talent acquisition (TA) team. The Sr. Client Lead is responsible for stakeholder management spanning across business leaders, hiring managers, HR partners, finance, and more. A strong Client Lead demonstrates exceptional closing skills, organization, prioritization, strong verbal and written communication skills, customer obsession, and ability to influence.

Special Mentions:
  • Relocation provided
  • Location: Space Coast, FL
  • Requires daily onsite presence (Monday-Friday)


Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To
  • Owns client relationships with assigned business groups; responsible for customer education, reporting, and escalation management.
  • Develops, implements, and oversees the delivery of strategic hiring plans that anticipate current and future needs of their aligned business unit. Inclusive of creating pipeline strategy through market intelligence, events, branding, and multi-channel funnels.
  • Monitors and ensures exceptional candidate experience across all roles under their remit: preparation, timely feedback, positive interviewing experience, clear communication.
  • Leads offer strategy and closing activities (offer creation, extension, and negotiation).
  • Drives the recruiting operating rhythm for their aligned business group: demand planning, reporting cadence, data stewardship, funnel reviews, and forecasting.
  • Continuously improves processes, tools, and workflows to increase sped, quality, and compliance of the TA organization. This includes leveraging customer feedback and data analytics to identify improvement opportunities across the entire hiring lifecycle.
  • Collaborates with recruiting peers (sourcing recruiters, full-lifecycle recruiters, recruiting coordinators, and process specialists) and partner teams (compensation, HR, legal) to foster positive candidate and customer experiences.


Minimum Qualifications:
  • 8+ years of corporate and/or search firm recruiting experience.
  • 3+ years managing and influencing VP/Director-level stakeholders
  • Proficiency with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and candidate relationship tools; strong MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong communication, consulting, and negotiation skills; ability to influence, set expectations, and apply constructive pushback.
  • Data-driven approach: set benchmarks, track metrics, forecast, and prioritize to meet or exceed customer SLAs.
  • Experience supporting Operations functions (e.g. manufacturing, supply chain, facilities) or similar domains
  • Proven ability to design multi-channel sourcing strategies and employer brand initiatives
  • Ability to architect and scale organization-wide recruiting operating mechanisms with VP/Director stakeholders (e.g., intake/prioritization, headcount allocation, SLAs, governance); deliver executive-ready dashboards and insights to guide portfolio decisions.
  • Executive communication: ability to author concise stakeholder memos and recruiting strategy documents (problem framing, data/market analysis, options/risks, recommendation, success metrics) for VP/Director audiences.


Base Pay Range for:
WA applicants is $134,434.00 - $188,207.25

Other site ranges may differ

Culture Statement

Don't meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits
  • Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
  • Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
  • Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
  • Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion. Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation. Please check with your recruiter for more details.


About Blue Origin

Blue Origin is an aerospace company that develops rockets and spacecraft for commercial and government customers. The company's products include the New Shepard suborbital vehicle and the New Glenn orbital rocket. Blue Origin was founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos and is headquartered in Kent, Washington.
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Size
3,000 employees
Industry
Founded
2000

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