Talent Acquisition Director Jobs in North Carolina
Talent Acquisition Director jobs in North Carolina are consistently in demand across the state's anchored industries, including financial services, healthcare, technology, and advanced manufacturing, with openings at both senior-leadership and mid-management levels. Charlotte, Raleigh, and Durham are the primary hiring hubs, home to large employers such as Bank of America, Duke University Health System, and Lowe's, all of which maintain active talent acquisition functions. The most sought-after specialties in North Carolina include executive recruiting, high-volume hiring operations, and employer branding. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Ally and Your Career
Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We love this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?
Work Schedule : Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role's specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.
The Opportunity
This role is based in our Charlotte, NC office on a hybrid schedule in office a few days a week with some days.Reporting to the Senior Director of Talent Acquisition, this role serves as a strategic talent advisor responsible for leading recruiting strategy, delivery, and outcomes for Ally’s Bank and Enterprise Functions businesses. This leader will manage a team of Talent Acquisition managers and recruiters and help ensure the organization has the talent needed to achieve current priorities and future business objectives.
The Director will partner closely with senior business leaders, HR Business Partners, and Talent Acquisition stakeholders to develop and execute recruiting strategies that attract, assess, and select top talent across a diverse portfolio of functions. Success in this role requires strong business partnership, operational discipline, data-driven decision making, and a commitment to delivering exceptional candidate and hiring manager experiences.
As a member of the Talent Acquisition Leadership Team, this individual will help shape recruiting priorities, leverage market intelligence and workforce insights, and identify opportunities to improve recruiting effectiveness, capacity, governance, and organizational capability.
This role is ideal for a leader who is passionate about developing high-performing recruiting teams, influencing senior leaders, and building scalable talent strategies that support Ally’s long-term success.
The Work Itself
- Lead and develop a team of Talent Acquisition managers and recruiters supporting more than 1,000 internal and external hires annually across Ally’s Bank and Enterprise Functions businesses.
- Build and execute talent acquisition strategies aligned with business priorities, workforce plans, and future organizational capability needs.
- Serve as a strategic talent advisor to senior leaders, HR partners, and key stakeholders on talent market trends, hiring strategies, and critical talent needs.
- Oversee recruiting delivery, performance, and service quality across assigned client groups, ensuring strong candidate and hiring manager experiences.
- Lead select confidential executive searches within assigned business areas and provide strategic guidance and coaching to recruiters supporting senior-level hiring.
- Use recruiting analytics, workforce data, and market intelligence to identify trends, influence decisions, and improve hiring outcomes.
- Drive operational excellence through clear governance, capacity planning, compliance, and process discipline.
- Champion continuous improvement across Talent Acquisition processes, tools, programs, and team capabilities to support scalable and effective recruiting.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 7+ years of Talent Acquisition experience, including at least 5 years leading recruiting teams.
- Experience leading Talent Acquisition within a bank, financial services organization, fintech, or other complex, highly regulated environment preferred.
- 3+ years of hands-on executive recruiting or executive search experience preferred, including experience leading confidential senior-leadership searches through the full recruiting lifecycle and coaching recruiters on executive search strategy, talent mapping, candidate assessment, and offer execution.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field preferred, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, develop, and engage high-performing recruiting teams, including teams operating across multiple locations.
- Strong business acumen, executive presence, and communication skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and influence senior leaders, hiring managers, and HR partners.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business and workforce needs into effective talent acquisition strategies while managing competing priorities in a complex, fast-paced environment.
- Experience leveraging recruiting data, market insights, and talent analytics to inform strategy, identify trends, and influence business decisions.
- Experience leading process improvement, change, and technology-enabled initiatives that enhance recruiting effectiveness, candidate experience, and operational efficiency.
- SPHR recommended.
- Ability to travel 10% of the time.
Minimum Qualifications
- 9+ years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
- High school Diploma or GED equivalent
How We'll Have Your Back
Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. Our Total Rewards program includes industry-leading compensation and benefits plus additional incentives that are designed to meet your needs and those of your family so you can get the most out of your career and your life, including:
Time Away: Program starts at 20 paid time off days in addition to 11 paid holidays and 8 hours of volunteer time off yearly (time off days are prorated based on start date and program varies based on full or part-time status and management level).
Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.
Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.
Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
Other Compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.
To view more detailed information about Ally’s Total Rewards, please visit this link: https://www.ally.com/content/dam/pdf/corporate/ally-total-rewards-snapshot.pdf
Who We Are :
Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com .
Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.
In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if after review of the position expectations, you believe that you may need a medical accommodation to fulfill the duties of this role, please email hrpolicy@ally.com with details of your accommodation request.
Base Pay Range
$125,000.00 - $190,000.00An individual's position in the range is determined by the specific role, the scope and responsibilities of the role, work experience, education, certification(s), training, and additional qualifications. We review internal pay, the competitive market, and business environment prior to extending an offer.
Incentive Compensation:
This position is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan.
Ally and Your Career
Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We love this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?
Work Schedule : Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role's specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.
The Opportunity
This role is based in our Charlotte, NC office on a hybrid schedule in office a few days a week with some days.Reporting to the Senior Director of Talent Acquisition, this role serves as a strategic talent advisor responsible for leading recruiting strategy, delivery, and outcomes for Ally’s Bank and Enterprise Functions businesses. This leader will manage a team of Talent Acquisition managers and recruiters and help ensure the organization has the talent needed to achieve current priorities and future business objectives.
The Director will partner closely with senior business leaders, HR Business Partners, and Talent Acquisition stakeholders to develop and execute recruiting strategies that attract, assess, and select top talent across a diverse portfolio of functions. Success in this role requires strong business partnership, operational discipline, data-driven decision making, and a commitment to delivering exceptional candidate and hiring manager experiences.
As a member of the Talent Acquisition Leadership Team, this individual will help shape recruiting priorities, leverage market intelligence and workforce insights, and identify opportunities to improve recruiting effectiveness, capacity, governance, and organizational capability.
This role is ideal for a leader who is passionate about developing high-performing recruiting teams, influencing senior leaders, and building scalable talent strategies that support Ally’s long-term success.
The Work Itself
- Lead and develop a team of Talent Acquisition managers and recruiters supporting more than 1,000 internal and external hires annually across Ally’s Bank and Enterprise Functions businesses.
- Build and execute talent acquisition strategies aligned with business priorities, workforce plans, and future organizational capability needs.
- Serve as a strategic talent advisor to senior leaders, HR partners, and key stakeholders on talent market trends, hiring strategies, and critical talent needs.
- Oversee recruiting delivery, performance, and service quality across assigned client groups, ensuring strong candidate and hiring manager experiences.
- Lead select confidential executive searches within assigned business areas and provide strategic guidance and coaching to recruiters supporting senior-level hiring.
- Use recruiting analytics, workforce data, and market intelligence to identify trends, influence decisions, and improve hiring outcomes.
- Drive operational excellence through clear governance, capacity planning, compliance, and process discipline.
- Champion continuous improvement across Talent Acquisition processes, tools, programs, and team capabilities to support scalable and effective recruiting.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 7+ years of Talent Acquisition experience, including at least 5 years leading recruiting teams.
- Experience leading Talent Acquisition within a bank, financial services organization, fintech, or other complex, highly regulated environment preferred.
- 3+ years of hands-on executive recruiting or executive search experience preferred, including experience leading confidential senior-leadership searches through the full recruiting lifecycle and coaching recruiters on executive search strategy, talent mapping, candidate assessment, and offer execution.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field preferred, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, develop, and engage high-performing recruiting teams, including teams operating across multiple locations.
- Strong business acumen, executive presence, and communication skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and influence senior leaders, hiring managers, and HR partners.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business and workforce needs into effective talent acquisition strategies while managing competing priorities in a complex, fast-paced environment.
- Experience leveraging recruiting data, market insights, and talent analytics to inform strategy, identify trends, and influence business decisions.
- Experience leading process improvement, change, and technology-enabled initiatives that enhance recruiting effectiveness, candidate experience, and operational efficiency.
- SPHR recommended.
- Ability to travel 10% of the time.
Minimum Qualifications
- 9+ years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
- High school Diploma or GED equivalent
How We'll Have Your Back
Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. Our Total Rewards program includes industry-leading compensation and benefits plus additional incentives that are designed to meet your needs and those of your family so you can get the most out of your career and your life, including:
Time Away: Program starts at 20 paid time off days in addition to 11 paid holidays and 8 hours of volunteer time off yearly (time off days are prorated based on start date and program varies based on full or part-time status and management level).
Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.
Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.
Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
Other Compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.
To view more detailed information about Ally’s Total Rewards, please visit this link: https://www.ally.com/content/dam/pdf/corporate/ally-total-rewards-snapshot.pdf
Who We Are :
Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com .
Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.
In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if after review of the position expectations, you believe that you may need a medical accommodation to fulfill the duties of this role, please email hrpolicy@ally.com with details of your accommodation request.
Base Pay Range
$125,000.00 - $190,000.00An individual's position in the range is determined by the specific role, the scope and responsibilities of the role, work experience, education, certification(s), training, and additional qualifications. We review internal pay, the competitive market, and business environment prior to extending an offer.
Incentive Compensation:
This position is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan.
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- Education
- Manufacturing
- Technology & Software
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What North Carolina Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in talent acquisition director jobs across North Carolina.
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, business, or a closely related field required
- Seven or more years of progressive talent acquisition experience including team leadership
- Demonstrated expertise building full-cycle recruiting programs across multiple business units
- Experience partnering with C-suite and senior business leaders on workforce planning strategy
- Proficiency with applicant tracking systems such as Workday, Taleo, or Greenhouse
- SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, or PHR certification preferred by many North Carolina employers
Talent Acquisition Director Jobs in North Carolina: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a talent acquisition director in North Carolina?
Most talent acquisition directors in North Carolina reach the role through a combination of a bachelor's degree in human resources or business and progressive experience moving from recruiter to talent acquisition manager before stepping into a director role. North Carolina does not require a state-issued license for this position, but SHRM certification is widely respected by employers across Charlotte, Raleigh, and the Research Triangle. Building experience inside large, complex organizations accelerates the path considerably.
How much do talent acquisition directors make in North Carolina?
Talent acquisition directors in North Carolina earn a median of about $142,990 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $90,390 for the lowest 10% to over $260,610 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire talent acquisition directors in North Carolina?
Employers hiring talent acquisition directors in North Carolina right now include Airbus, Kintegra Health, and Hoffman & Hoffman, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of October 2026. North Carolina's concentration of major financial institutions in Charlotte, health systems across the Triad, and technology companies in the Research Triangle makes it one of the more active markets for senior talent acquisition leadership on the East Coast.
Which North Carolina cities have the most talent acquisition director jobs?
Charlotte, Raleigh, and Greensboro account for the largest share of talent acquisition director openings in North Carolina. Charlotte leads because of its dense cluster of financial services headquarters and large corporate employers, while Raleigh and Durham draw demand from the Research Triangle's technology, pharmaceutical, and university-anchored employers, creating sustained need for directors who can manage complex, multi-function recruiting operations.
Are there remote talent acquisition director jobs in North Carolina?
Yes, and more than most fields, because talent acquisition director work is fundamentally strategic and relationship-driven rather than physically tied to a single location. About 64% of talent acquisition director openings tied to North Carolina are remote or hybrid as of October 2026, reflecting broad employer comfort with distributed TA leadership. Responsibilities such as executive search, employer branding strategy, and recruiting operations management translate especially well to remote arrangements.
How can I get hired as a talent acquisition director in North Carolina with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving into a recruiter or talent acquisition specialist role at a large North Carolina employer and building toward management over several years. Healthcare systems like Atrium Health and UNC Health, along with major corporate employers in Charlotte and the Research Triangle, regularly hire early-career recruiters who can grow internally. Earning a SHRM-CP credential, building a record of measurable hiring outcomes, and taking on project leadership within a recruiting team are the most concrete steps that open doors to director-level consideration.
Where can I find and apply to talent acquisition director jobs in North Carolina?
You can find and apply to talent acquisition director jobs in North Carolina on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings tied to the state. Find roles that fit your experience and apply directly to the employers posting them.
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