[Hiring] Talent Manager @Foundant + smartsimple

Role Description

You'll own team member lifecycle strategy end to end — from first sourcing conversation through onboarding, early-tenure experience, and offboarding — connecting every stage into a single strategy your team executes against.

• Manage and develop a small team spanning recruiting and team member experience, holding a strong execution bar while investing real time in their growth and career paths.
• Set the strategy and standards for proactive sourcing — passive-candidate pipelines and headhunting-driven outreach — directing your team's execution so the share of hires from proactive outreach keeps growing and recruiting stays consistently ahead of hiring needs.
• Build broader skillset agility across Foundant — staying ahead of how the skills different teams need are changing, and bringing that thinking into sourcing, hiring criteria, and hiring-manager conversations about what “qualified” looks like as roles evolve.
• Own the hiring-manager partnership company-wide, becoming the go-to strategic partner for every manager building their team — tracking hiring-manager satisfaction as a real measure of whether that partnership is working.
• Set the direction for onboarding and early-tenure experience — defining the programs and standards your team delivers on the ground, including structured early-tenure check-ins that help new team members feel supported and set up to succeed from day one.
• Track new-hire retention and onboarding satisfaction as signals of how well that's working.
• Accountable for time-to-fill, time-to-hire, and offer-acceptance rate against existing targets, using data to direct where your team focuses next.
• Partner closely with your peers across the People team, keeping recruiting, onboarding, and people operations connected as one continuous experience.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience directly managing people, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• 5+ years in recruiting or talent acquisition, including experience building proactive and passive-candidate sourcing strategies.
• Experience in a growth stage SaaS organization (roughly 300–500 employees).
• Demonstrated experience building team member lifecycle programs, from sourcing through onboarding and early-tenure experience.
• Comfortable operating as a player-coach — hands-on with sourcing, screening, and program-building, alongside setting strategy and coaching a team.
• Must be legally eligible to work in Canada or the United States.

Requirements

• Strategic Thinking: Translates full team member lifecycle ownership into one connected strategy and grows proactive sourcing capability.
• Performance Advancement: Holds the team accountable to a strong execution bar, using data to keep the pipeline moving.
• Decision-Making: Makes clear, well-reasoned calls on sourcing strategy and hiring-manager prioritization.
• Collaboration and Learning: Builds Foundant's hiring-manager partnership company-wide and partners closely with peers across People.
• Staff Development: Invests real time in the team's growth — coaching, honest feedback, and development plans.

Benefits

• Commitment to innovation and making a positive impact.
• Competitive salary and benefits, including tuition and lifestyle reimbursements, and bespoke mindfulness and fitness initiatives.
• Flexible PTO policy to manage your time in a way that supports personal well-being and professional success.
• Opportunities for professional and personal development, with exposure to diverse ideas, expertise, and projects.
• Support for internal mobility to help you achieve your career goals.
• Autonomy and responsibility, empowering creative and independent work.
• Employee recognition as a core part of our culture.
• Equal opportunity employer, committed to building a diverse workforce.
• Commitment to providing accommodations throughout the interview and employment process.