[Hiring] Talent Acquisition Manager @How to Manage a Small Law Firm

Role Description

As our Talent Acquisition Manager, you'll own the full candidate journey while continuously improving how HTM attracts, engages, and hires exceptional people. This isn't an administrative recruiting role; you're responsible for building a talent engine.

Talent Marketing

• Build compelling recruiting campaigns.
• Write job descriptions that sell opportunities instead of listing responsibilities.
• Strengthen our employer brand across multiple channels.
• Create content that showcases our culture.
• Develop recruiting strategies that consistently generate high-quality applicants.
• Experiment with new sourcing channels and recruiting technology.
• Constantly ask: "Why would the best candidate choose HTM?"

Talent Sales

• Source passive candidates through LinkedIn and other platforms.
• Build relationships long before roles become available.
• Conduct discovery conversations that uncover motivation, not just qualifications.
• Sell candidates on our mission, culture, and growth opportunities.
• Keep top candidates engaged throughout the hiring process.
• Close exceptional talent.

Full-Cycle Recruiting

• Own searches from intake through offer acceptance, including:
• Hiring strategy meetings
• Sourcing
• Candidate outreach
• Resume review
• Phone interviews
• Candidate assessments
• Interview coordination
• Hiring manager communication
• Offer negotiations
• Candidate experience
• Onboarding partnership
• Maintain a high hiring bar while moving quickly.

Build Talent Pipelines

• Continuously build relationships with outstanding people across sales, marketing, operations, customer success, technology, finance, and leadership.
• Always know who our next great hire might be.

Recruiting Operations

• Continuously improve our recruiting systems by:
• Building scalable hiring processes.
• Improving interview quality.
• Tracking recruiting metrics.
• Optimizing our ATS.
• Leveraging AI to improve sourcing and efficiency.
• Creating consistency across every hiring experience.
• Leave every process better than you found it.

What Success Looks Like

• HTM becomes known as an employer people genuinely want to work for.
• Develop the Talent Acquisition team.
• Passive candidates regularly respond to your outreach.
• Hiring managers trust your judgment.
• Our hiring process is efficient without sacrificing quality.
• Candidates rave about their experience, whether they're hired or not.
• Build talent pipelines before we need them.

Qualifications

• At least 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience.
• Experience recruiting sales, marketing, operations, leadership, and professional roles.
• Exceptional sourcing skills using LinkedIn Recruiter and other platforms.
• Experience selling opportunities to passive candidates.
• Strong copywriting skills for job ads and recruiting outreach.
• Experience using recruiting metrics to improve performance.
• Familiarity with AI recruiting tools and automation.
• Excellent interviewing and candidate assessment skills.

Benefits

• FULL TIME remote job (not part-time, not side-gig, not “I'll squeeze this in between other things”).
• Occasional travel required for quarterly conferences and live sales events.
• We can only hire in: AZ, CO, FL, GA, IL, MD, MI, NC, NJ, NY, PA, TX, VA, WA.

Final Word

This is a high-performance environment. We hire A-Players who thrive in fast-moving, entrepreneurial, no-excuses settings. We take 100% personal responsibility, and we expect you to do the same.

If you read all this and got more excited (instead of overwhelmed), you might be exactly who we're looking for.

HTM provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.