Position Summary:
The Talent Acquisition Partner leads full-cycle recruiting for executive and senior-level searches across the firm, partnering directly with practice leaders and hiring executives to build high-caliber, confidential pipelines for critical, high-visibility roles. This position blends strategic sourcing, executive-level candidate management, and consultative partnership with firm leadership.
Primary Responsibilities
- Partner directly with hiring executives and practice leaders to define search criteria, scope, and success profiles for senior-level and executive roles
- Lead confidential, proactive outreach and relationship-building with senior-level and passive executive candidates
- Design and coordinate end-to-end interview processes for executive searches, including panel and stakeholder alignment
- Manage a white-glove candidate experience, maintaining discretion throughout confidential and leadership-level searches
- Conduct market mapping and competitive intelligence to inform search strategy and target lists
- Advise hiring leaders on offer strategy and provide consultative feedback throughout the process
- Deliver polished, high-touch candidate communications, including status updates and executive-level rejection/feedback conversations
- Guide offer structuring and negotiation support in partnership with leadership and compensation teams
- Lead executive onboarding strategy, including tailored pre-boarding engagement for senior hires
- Partner with onboarding and leadership teams to ensure a seamless, high-touch transition into the firm
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including demonstrated executive or senior-level search experience
- Proven ability to manage confidential, high-visibility searches with discretion and sound judgment
- Strong consultative and relationship-management skills with senior stakeholders and hiring leaders
- Experience with executive sourcing tools, market mapping, and competitive talent intelligence
- 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
- SHRM-CP or AIRS sourcing certification
Skills and Competencies:
- Strategic thinker with a data-driven approach to sourcing and search strategy
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with an executive-level presence
- 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
Compensation Range:
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
