[Hiring] Recruitment Lead @Handoff

Role Description

We are Handoff — we connect exceptional LATAM talent with U.S. companies. We operate as an employer of record and nearshore staffing partner, handling everything from sourcing and placement through contracts, payroll, and compliance, so our clients get great people and our talent gets real, stable careers.

We're a small, tight-knit team, and demand keeps growing — more clients, more specialized roles, higher expectations for speed and quality. That means real ownership for whoever joins us, and impact you can point to fast.

Key Responsibilities

• Full-Cycle Recruiting:
  • Own full-cycle recruitment for a portfolio of client roles across LATAM — from sourcing through offer acceptance.
  • Run outbound sourcing for specialized and hard-to-fill roles, not just review inbound applicants.
  • Screen and present candidates using clear, structured evaluation instead of gut calls.
  • Manage client-side communication: intake calls, candidate presentations, interview coordination, feedback loops.
• Quality & Standards:
  • Serve as the final quality check before any candidate reaches a client.
  • Set and maintain recruiting standards, process design, and candidate criteria across every active search.
  • Uphold process integrity with clients in line with MSA terms, protecting pipeline quality and candidate experience.
  • Step directly into complex, senior, and high-stakes searches when needed.
• Team Leadership:
  • Coach and develop recruiters and sourcers — review pipelines and give direct, useful feedback.
  • Manage workload distribution across the team so no one carries an unrealistic number of open roles.
  • Own team-level metrics: pipeline coverage, time to first qualified candidate, submittal-to-interview rate, time to fill, offer acceptance, and 90-day retention.
  • Hold the team accountable to targets and flag capacity or performance risks early.
• Process & Systems:
  • Write and own the SOPs for how the team recruits — intake, sourcing, screening, presentation, offer, and handoff to onboarding.
  • Design and maintain structured evaluation frameworks (scorecards, interview guides, assessment criteria) so hiring decisions stay consistent across recruiters.
  • Build and refine ATS workflows in Ashby: pipeline stages, sequences, templates, reporting.
  • Set the working structure for external and project-based recruiters — briefing, submission, and review.
  • Document what works so it survives turnover and can be trained instead of reinvented.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in recruitment, including at least 2 years running full-cycle searches independently.
• Experience leading a recruiting team — you've managed, coached, or directed recruiters, not just carried a senior individual contributor role.
• A track record of building recruiting processes from scratch: SOPs, workflows, evaluation frameworks, documentation.
• Hands-on recruiting experience in LATAM markets, especially Colombia.
• Strong outbound sourcing skills — you can build a pipeline from nothing, not just work inbound applicants.
• Fluent English and Spanish, written and spoken — you'll work directly with U.S. clients and LATAM candidates.
• Experience presenting candidates to and managing expectations with external clients or hiring managers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Ashby specifically — you'll move faster from day one (experience with other modern ATS platforms still counts).
• Background in staffing, RPO, EOR, or agency recruiting, where you're used to juggling multiple clients and roles at once.
• Experience working with external, agency, or commission-based recruiters.
• A track record placing specialized or senior roles — technical, finance, executive — not only high-volume entry-level searches.
• A structured mindset — you'd rather build a repeatable process than improvise the same solution twice.

Benefits

• Take full ownership of Handoff's recruiting function — you're not inheriting a finished system, you're building the next version of it.
• Work directly with leadership from day one; there's no bureaucracy between your ideas and getting them implemented.
• Balance hands-on recruiting with real people leadership — you'll never be stuck doing only one or the other.
• Shape how Handoff evaluates and presents LATAM talent to U.S. clients, with your judgment carrying real weight.
• Join at an inflection point — the team, tools, and client base are all growing, and you'll have a direct hand in scaling each one.
• Build a track record leading recruiting at a company that lives and breathes the LATAM talent market.