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General Information
- Seattle, WA
Description and Requirements
Talent Acquisition Senior Manager- Executive Search
Who You’ll Work With
As a Talent Acquisition Senior Manager at Slalom, you will play a critical role in scaling our leadership teams. You will partner closely with leaders across the Americas to understand workforce needs, shape talent strategies, and build high-performing leadership teams that support our clients’ most complex transformation initiatives.
Your deep knowledge of the talent market and ability to identify niche and leadership skill sets will be pivotal in advancing Slalom’s growth and solution depth.
You will also lead strategic recruiting initiatives, contribute to our employer brand within key communities, manage stakeholders, and champion an exceptional candidate experience. Your work will directly influence Slalom’s growth strategy and ensure that our talent acquisition approach aligns with our culture of innovation, inclusion, and excellence. This role works across all capabilities and focuses on leadership-level hiring.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and execute innovative talent sourcing strategies to attract diverse, high-quality leaders across multiple platforms and domains.
- Partner closely with hiring managers and practice leaders to understand team priorities, role requirements, and evolving market landscapes, providing expert consultation on recruitment strategies.
- Build and maintain strong knowledge of the competitive talent market, including emerging industry trends.
- Manage the full-cycle recruitment process, including talent mapping, sourcing, interviewing, offer negotiation, and onboarding.
- Cultivate and expand Slalom’s employer brand by engaging in technology communities, attending industry events, and nurturing long-term relationships with skilled practitioners.
- Use data-driven insights to refine recruiting approaches, improve funnel health, forecast talent needs, and enhance operational efficiency.
- Ensure an exceptional candidate experience through transparent communication, timely feedback, and a personalized, relationship-focused approach.
- Collaborate with and mentor other recruiters, sharing best practices and contributing to the evolution of our TA processes and capability hiring strategies.
What You’ll Bring
- At least 7 years of talent acquisition experience, including a strong track record recruiting executives and senior leaders.
- An established network of senior talent and the ability to build trusted relationships with passive candidates across capabilities and markets.
- Executive presence and sound judgment to advise senior stakeholders, shape search strategy, navigate complex hiring decisions, and manage expectations.
- The ability to assess leadership candidates beyond résumé credentials, including their motivation, leadership fit, and alignment with business needs.
- Success managing executive searches end to end, from talent mapping and outreach through offer negotiation and close.
- The ability to use market intelligence, recruiting data, CRM and ATS platforms, and sourcing tools to guide decisions and improve search outcomes.
- A commitment to building diverse leadership teams and providing a thoughtful, high-quality candidate experience.
About Us
Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact.
What sets us apart? We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling—not perfect, but possible. That’s why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days.
Compensation and Benefits
Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, a 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, and vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short- and long-term disability.
We also offer a yearly $350 reimbursement account for well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.
Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this role, we are hiring at the following levels and targeted base pay salary ranges:
- Senior Manager, National Tier: $115,000 to $145,000
- Senior Manager, Premium Tier: $125,000 to $155,000
In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.
We are committed to pay transparency and compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions or concerns about the pay range or other compensation information in this posting, please contact us at peopleone@slalom.com. Please note, this recipient is not able to support recruitment inquiries beyond this purpose.
This role will be posted until November 18th, 2026 or until filled.
EEO and Accommodations
Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process.
Please advise the talent acquisition team or contact accomodationrequest@slalom.com if you require accommodations during the interview process.
General Information
- Seattle, WA
Description and Requirements
Talent Acquisition Senior Manager- Executive Search
Who You’ll Work With
As a Talent Acquisition Senior Manager at Slalom, you will play a critical role in scaling our leadership teams. You will partner closely with leaders across the Americas to understand workforce needs, shape talent strategies, and build high-performing leadership teams that support our clients’ most complex transformation initiatives.
Your deep knowledge of the talent market and ability to identify niche and leadership skill sets will be pivotal in advancing Slalom’s growth and solution depth.
You will also lead strategic recruiting initiatives, contribute to our employer brand within key communities, manage stakeholders, and champion an exceptional candidate experience. Your work will directly influence Slalom’s growth strategy and ensure that our talent acquisition approach aligns with our culture of innovation, inclusion, and excellence. This role works across all capabilities and focuses on leadership-level hiring.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and execute innovative talent sourcing strategies to attract diverse, high-quality leaders across multiple platforms and domains.
- Partner closely with hiring managers and practice leaders to understand team priorities, role requirements, and evolving market landscapes, providing expert consultation on recruitment strategies.
- Build and maintain strong knowledge of the competitive talent market, including emerging industry trends.
- Manage the full-cycle recruitment process, including talent mapping, sourcing, interviewing, offer negotiation, and onboarding.
- Cultivate and expand Slalom’s employer brand by engaging in technology communities, attending industry events, and nurturing long-term relationships with skilled practitioners.
- Use data-driven insights to refine recruiting approaches, improve funnel health, forecast talent needs, and enhance operational efficiency.
- Ensure an exceptional candidate experience through transparent communication, timely feedback, and a personalized, relationship-focused approach.
- Collaborate with and mentor other recruiters, sharing best practices and contributing to the evolution of our TA processes and capability hiring strategies.
What You’ll Bring
- At least 7 years of talent acquisition experience, including a strong track record recruiting executives and senior leaders.
- An established network of senior talent and the ability to build trusted relationships with passive candidates across capabilities and markets.
- Executive presence and sound judgment to advise senior stakeholders, shape search strategy, navigate complex hiring decisions, and manage expectations.
- The ability to assess leadership candidates beyond résumé credentials, including their motivation, leadership fit, and alignment with business needs.
- Success managing executive searches end to end, from talent mapping and outreach through offer negotiation and close.
- The ability to use market intelligence, recruiting data, CRM and ATS platforms, and sourcing tools to guide decisions and improve search outcomes.
- A commitment to building diverse leadership teams and providing a thoughtful, high-quality candidate experience.
About Us
Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact.
What sets us apart? We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling—not perfect, but possible. That’s why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days.
Compensation and Benefits
Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, a 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, and vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short- and long-term disability.
We also offer a yearly $350 reimbursement account for well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.
Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this role, we are hiring at the following levels and targeted base pay salary ranges:
- Senior Manager, National Tier: $115,000 to $145,000
- Senior Manager, Premium Tier: $125,000 to $155,000
In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.
We are committed to pay transparency and compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions or concerns about the pay range or other compensation information in this posting, please contact us at peopleone@slalom.com. Please note, this recipient is not able to support recruitment inquiries beyond this purpose.
This role will be posted until November 18th, 2026 or until filled.
EEO and Accommodations
Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process.
Please advise the talent acquisition team or contact accomodationrequest@slalom.com if you require accommodations during the interview process.
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Who's Hiring
- TikTok26
- Amazon15
- CARVANA13
- Legora9
- M2E7
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software41
- Healthcare & Medical Services21
- Construction & Real Estate11
- Electronics & Hardware9
- Banking & Financial Services7
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in recruiting lead jobs.
- Three or more years of full-cycle recruiting experience in a corporate or agency environment
- Demonstrated experience managing or mentoring at least one other recruiter or coordinator
- Proficiency with applicant tracking systems and sourcing tools at an administrative or power-user level
- Strong data literacy including the ability to report on pipeline metrics and recruiter performance
- Experience partnering with hiring managers to build job briefs and set intake expectations
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, business, psychology, or a related field, or equivalent experience
Tips for Your Recruiting Lead Job Search
Quantify your pipeline and hire metrics
Recruiters hiring a recruiting lead want numbers, not adjectives. Pull your time-to-fill averages, offer acceptance rates, and requisition loads from your past roles and put them in your resume before you apply to anything.
Tailor your resume to the team size
A recruiting lead at a 50-person startup owns the entire function, while one at a 5,000-person company manages a pod. Read each job description for scope signals and adjust your bullet points to match the complexity they're describing.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists recruiting lead openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Highlight the ATS tools you've administered
Many recruiting lead roles carry system-ownership responsibilities, not just user access. Call out any applicant tracking systems you've configured, optimized, or trained others on, since that separates you from candidates who only know the candidate-facing side.
Prepare a structured brief for the hiring case study
Late-stage interviews for recruiting lead roles frequently involve a sourcing or strategy presentation. Practice walking through a real hiring problem you solved, covering the brief you wrote, the channels you used, and how you measured success.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate compensation
Before you discuss pay, clarify headcount on your team, the requisition load you'd inherit, and whether you'd have budget authority. Those factors shape whether the title is actually a lead role or a senior individual contributor by another name.
Recruiting Lead Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most recruiting leads?
The most active employers for recruiting leads right now are TikTok, Amazon, and CARVANA, and the most openings are in Texas, California, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. High-growth technology and healthcare companies tend to maintain the most consistent demand for the role.
How many recruiting lead jobs are remote?
About 65% of recruiting lead openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting sustained flexibility in talent acquisition functions since the shift to distributed work. Technical recruiting and corporate recruiting sub-areas tend to offer the highest share of remote arrangements, while executive search and campus recruiting roles are more likely to require on-site presence.
How do you become a recruiting lead?
Start by building several years of full-cycle recruiting experience where you own requisitions from intake through offer. Take on informal mentorship of junior team members or coordinators to demonstrate leadership readiness. Develop fluency with pipeline data so you can report on recruiter performance, not just your own. When you apply, target companies where the team is growing and a lead is needed to build structure rather than maintain an already-mature function.
Can you get hired as a recruiting lead without prior leadership experience?
Some employers will hire a strong individual contributor into a first-time lead role if the team is small or the function is early-stage. The clearest path is to document any project ownership, process improvements you drove, or informal training you delivered to colleagues. Framing your experience around outcomes you influenced beyond your own desk makes the case that you're already operating above an individual contributor level.
What does the recruiting lead interview process look like?
Most processes run three to four rounds. An initial screen with HR or a talent operations manager is followed by a deeper conversation with the head of talent or a senior HR business partner focused on your recruiting philosophy and leadership style. A panel interview with cross-functional hiring managers is common at mid-to-large companies. Many employers close with a take-home or live case study asking you to design a sourcing strategy or audit an existing recruiting process.
Where can I find and apply to recruiting lead jobs?
You can find and apply to recruiting lead jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Search the available roles, find the ones that match your experience and the type of team you want to join, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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