Talent Acquisition Partner

Position Summary:

The Talent Acquisition Partner owns executive search and talent strategy for Cerity Partner's client facing practices and shared services departments, serving as a trusted advisor to practice leaders and hiring executives. Support for these teams include critical, high-visibility, and confidential searches. This position blends strategic sourcing, executive-level candidate management, and consultative partnership with firm leadership, and carries accountability for search outcomes, market insight, and the standard of senior-level recruiting across the firm.

What you bring is the executive search expertise, sound judgment, and relationship-building expertise to find and win the leaders who will define our next chapter across every practice.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serve as strategic advisor to practice leaders and hiring executives, shaping search criteria, sc

ope, success profiles, and workforce plans for the firm’s highest-priority practices

• Own the firm’s most sensitive executive and leadership searches end to end, from intake through close, with full accountability for outcomes

• Lead confidential, proactive outreach and long-term relationship-building with senior-level and passive executive candidates, building standing talent pipelines ahead of need

• Design and lead end-to-end interview processes for executive searches, aligning panels and stakeholders and holding the process to a high bar

• Deliver a white-glove candidate experience, maintaining discretion throughout confidential and leadership-level searches

• Direct market mapping and competitive intelligence to set search strategy, target lists, and talent acquisition priorities for highest-priority practices

• Advise hiring leaders on offer strategy, compensation positioning, and competing offers, and lead negotiation and close in partnership with leadership and compensation teams

• Deliver polished, high-touch candidate communications, including status updates and executive-level rejection and feedback conversations that protect the firm’s reputation

• Lead executive onboarding strategy, including tailored pre-boarding engagement for senior hires, and partner with onboarding and leadership teams for a seamless transition

• Report on search progress, pipeline health, and market trends to the Head of Talent Acquisition and firm leadership

• Mentor and coach TA Partners and Associates on executive search practices, and help shape the firm’s recruiting standards and processes

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including a proven track record leading executive and senior-level searches

• Demonstrated success managing confidential, high-visibility searches with discretion and sound judgment

• Strong consultative and relationship-management skills, with credibility and influence among senior stakeholders and practice leaders

• Experience with executive sourcing tools, market mapping, and competitive talent intelligence

• Experience advising on offer strategy and negotiating and closing senior-level candidates

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience in retained executive search or a search-firm environment

• Experience in wealth management, financial services, or professional services

• SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, or AIRS sourcing certification

Skills and Competencies:

• Strategic thinker who shapes search strategy and talent priorities for highest-priority practices, not just executes against them

• Executive-level presence, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to influence senior leaders

• High degree of discretion and sound judgment managing confidential searches

• Strong relationship-management and consultative skills with senior stakeholders

• Uses recruiting data and pipeline metrics to guide decisions on sourcing channels, search strategy, and process improvements

• Excellence with AI-powered sourcing and recruiting tools, applying them to sharpen candidate identification and streamline the search process

• Stays current on executive hiring trends, compensation benchmarks, and shifts in the talent market to keep search strategy competitive

• Skilled negotiator who closes competitive candidates and navigates counter-offers

• Coaches and develops others, raising the bar for recruiting across the team

Compensation Range:

• $100,000 - $125,000 base salary with bonus

Why Cerity Partners:

Our people drive our success by working together to deliver exceptional service to our clients. Below is a glimpse of the key elements of our total rewards package:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance – day 1!

• 401(k) savings and investment plan options with 4% match

• Flexible PTO policy

• Parental Leave

• Financial assistance for advanced education and professional designations

• Opportunity to give back time to local communities

• Commuter benefits