Sr. Talent Partner

Description

WHAT IS THE ROLE ABOUT? This is not a traditional recruiting role focused only on volume, activity metrics, or simply moving resumes through a process. Instead, we're looking for a strategic talent expert who excels at understanding business needs, assessing talent, identifying alignment and misalignment, and designing thoughtful hiring processes that lead to better hiring decisions and stronger organizational outcomes. As a Senior Talent Partner, you'll serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and business leaders, guiding them through every stage of the hiring lifecycle while helping elevate hiring practices across the organization. You'll blend recruiting expertise, talent assessment, project management, analytics, and relationship building to deliver exceptional experiences for candidates and hiring teams alike.

If you're passionate about people, talent, organizational growth, and helping organizations make smarter hiring decisions, we'd love to hear from you.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:

Lead Full-Cycle Recruiting: Own and manage the end-to-end recruitment process across a variety of professional, technical, operational, and leadership positions

• Lead recruiting kickoff meetings and intake discussions to develop comprehensive hiring strategies
• Create and manage job postings, lead sourcing and develop sourcing strategies, candidate outreach, lead and organize interview planning and selection activities (including scheduling)
• Own initial assessment and filtering of applications, screen, assess, and interview candidates to identify both qualifications and long-term fit
• Guide candidates through the hiring process while delivering a positive and professional experience
• Lead offer development, compensation discussions, and salary negotiations when appropriate. Experience working within defined compensation structure and pre and post offer workflows within ATS
• Ensure timely and thoughtful candidate communication, feedback, and dispositioning throughout the recruitment lifecycle
• Champion a best-in-class candidate experience by overseeing the full recruitment journey, from attraction through onboarding, and collaborating across the organization to ensure a seamless, welcoming, and positive transition into VHL - Serving as a brand ambassador for VHL

Partner with Hiring Managers: Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders and hiring teams

• Consult with hiring managers to understand business needs, team dynamics, role requirements, and success profiles
• Develop and share meaningful candidate insights to inform candidate selection and decision making. Challenge assumptions when necessary and help leaders calibrate expectations to market realities
• Provide guidance on interview best practices, candidate evaluation, and hiring decision-making
• Facilitate productive hiring discussions and drive alignment among stakeholders
• Build strong, collaborative relationships across all levels of the organization

Design Better Hiring Processes: Help improve hiring outcomes by bringing structure, rigor, and consistency to the talent acquisition process

• Develop interview frameworks, candidate evaluation forms, scorecards, and assessment methodologies
• Design competency-based and behavioral interviewing approaches that improve candidate evaluation
• Ensure hiring processes effectively assess technical capability, behavioral competencies, organizational fit, and future potential
• Identify opportunities to increase consistency, fairness, and hiring quality across the organization
• Partner with HR leadership to develop and enhance a library of TA learning content, tools, and best-practice guides that empower hiring stakeholders and advance a culture of high-bar TA

Drive Continuous Improvement Through Data: Leverage data and insights to strengthen recruiting effectiveness

• Monitor recruiting metrics, pipelines, hiring outcomes, and process effectiveness
• Analyze trends and identify opportunities for improvement
• Use data to influence decisions, improve stakeholder experiences, and optimize recruiting strategies
• Partner with HR leadership to implement best practices and continuously enhance talent acquisition operations

Manage Recruiting Systems & Operations: Maintain the tools, systems, and processes that support a best-in-class recruitment function

• Partner with team to support and optimize applicant tracking system (ATS) processes and workflows
• Manage recruiting-related platforms, including LinkedIn and other sourcing tools
• Ensure data integrity, process consistency, and compliance with applicable employment laws and regulations
• Participate in recruiting projects, employer branding initiatives, and talent-related programs as needed

YOU MUST HAVE (MINIMUM REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE):

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of progressive talent acquisition or recruiting experience
• Demonstrated success leading full-cycle recruiting across a variety of professional positions in a dynamic, tech-minded and growth oriented space
• Exceptional expertise partnering directly with hiring managers and business leaders across levels
• Strong interviewing, talent assessment, and candidate evaluation skills
• Experience developing structured hiring processes, interview guides, and evaluation tools.
• Excellent project management, organizational, and prioritization skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills - presents candidate assessments in clear and meaningful ways to influence and inform process
• Experience managing multiple searches simultaneously while maintaining a high-quality candidate and stakeholder experience
• Proficiency with applicant tracking systems, LinkedIn Recruiter, and recruiting technologies

IDEAL IF YOU HAVE (PREFERRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE):

• Experience recruiting within the education technology, software, SaaS, publishing, or broader technology or language learning sectors
• Experience recruiting for technical, product, engineering, data, or technology-related positions
• Experience supporting organizational growth in a dynamic, evolving business environment
• Experience using recruiting metrics and analytics to drive process improvements and hiring outcomes
• Experience with Jobvite ATS
• Experience creating TA collateral, guides and trainings

WHAT MAKES YOU SUCCESSFUL:

• A strategic talent advisor, not a transactional recruiter
• Agility - willingness to "play up and down", balancing being hands-on with strategic by executing tactical tasks while easily pivoting to elevating the TA function and candidate experience
• Naturally curious and skilled at uncovering what hiring managers and candidates truly need
• An exceptional relationship builder who quickly establishes credibility and trust
• Analytical and data-driven, using insights to inform decisions and improve outcomes
• Highly organized and capable of managing multiple priorities without sacrificing quality
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity while bringing structure and clarity to complex situations
• Passionate about creating exceptional candidate and hiring manager experiences
• Committed to continuous learning and talent acquisition best practices
• Motivated by helping people find meaningful opportunities and helping organizations build great teams

LOCATION: Boston-Hybrid

Position requires current residence within the United States of America and within close proximity/reasonable distance to Boston. Requires willingness to work a Tuesday/Thursday in-office Hybrid schedule in our Boston, MA office location. Relocation assistance is not available.

SALARY: $95k-$130k annual

The salary range included in this job posting represents the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. The hiring range will vary based on factors, including but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education and experience, skills, qualifications, certifications, performance, location, market conditions as well as business and organizational needs. Additionally, successful employees may be eligible for annual bonuses as part of their overall compensation package subject to plan eligibility criteria and performance.

AI Use in the Application Process We support candidates balanced and thoughtful use of AI tools to support their job search. However, all application materials (including resumes, cover letters, portfolios, work-samples etc.) and interview responses must reflect the candidate authentic and actual experience, skills, and judgment. Real-time use of AI during interviews is not permitted unless explicitly stated and authorized, in writing, by VHL's HR department. Candidates may be asked to confirm that submitted work reflects their own abilities and to explain their responses in real time. Candidates requiring assistive technologies (including certain AI tools) as accommodations may request approval. Approved accommodations will not negatively impact evaluation. All hiring decisions are made by humans. Please see our complete "Candidate Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools - Policy Statement" here https://vistahigherlearning.com/careers

We are passionate, innovative, lifelong learners, and creative thinkers working to develop culturally authentic language learning products for K-12 schools and universities. Our benefits package includes life/health/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), educational assistance, commuter pass subsidies, generous employee referral bonuses, PTO and paid holidays.