Remote Talent Acquisition Director – Strategic Hiring Leader

Directive; Irvine; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Unlimited PTO

Remote work

Job summary

Directive Consulting is seeking an Associate Director of Talent Acquisition to lead a small recruiting team and own critical searches. This player-coach role partners with senior leaders to shape hiring strategies and scale operations across the business.

You will manage Ashby as the primary ATS, drive data-driven hiring, build pipelines, and ensure an exceptional candidate experience while guiding strategic workforce planning in a remote, globally distributed environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of Talent Acquisition experience in a fast‑paced environment.
• 2+ years of people leadership experience managing recruiters or talent acquisition teams.
• Experience recruiting for SEO, Paid Media, CRO, Programmatic, Content, Creative, Marketing Ops/Rev Ops, etc. is a must.
• Demonstrated success recruiting executive, leadership and highly specialized roles while maintaining ownership of full‑cycle recruiting.
• Proven ability to develop sophisticated sourcing strategies utilizing Boolean searches, networking, referrals, market mapping.
• Power user in an ATS with experience with Ashby and/or Juicebox a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of Talent Acquisition Partners, creating a high-performance recruiting organization.
• Conduct regular pipeline reviews, hiring strategy sessions, and recruiter coaching to improve performance and hiring outcomes.
• Establish recruiting goals, priorities, and team performance metrics while ensuring consistent execution.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high‑accountability recruiting culture.
• Personally manage a portfolio of high-impact and executive‑level searches across the business.
• Lead full-cycle recruiting from intake through offer negotiation and close.
• Partner with senior leadership to define hiring strategies for critical and hard‑to-fill roles.
• Conduct structured interviews and assess candidates for technical capability, leadership potential, and alignment with Directive's values.
• Build proactive talent pipelines for future hiring needs through networking, sourcing, referrals, and market mapping.
• If the recruitment team is backed up on their roles, you are ready to jump in and help.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and executives on talent strategy, market trends, compensation insights, interview best practices, and hiring decisions.
• Drive consistent communication with hiring managers regarding pipeline health, recruiting progress, market conditions, and challenges.
• Lead intake meetings to align hiring expectations and create effective recruiting strategies.
• Report to the executive team on a weekly basis on progress of roles.
• Serve as the primary administrator and subject matter expert for Ashby ATS.
• Own the full recruitment process from job posting to offer negotiation.
• Continuously optimize recruiting workflows, interview processes, automations, templates, scorecards, and reporting.
• Maintain recruiting data integrity and ensure accurate reporting across all hiring activity.
• Develop dashboards and recruiting analytics to monitor KPIs, hiring funnel health, source effectiveness, diversity metrics, and recruiter performance.
• Partner with People Operations and HR leadership to improve recruiting systems and processes.
• Champion an exceptional candidate experience that reflects Directive's values and culture.
• Ensure consistency across interview processes and candidate communications.
• Partner with Marketing and People teams on employer branding initiatives to attract top global talent.
• Drive inclusive recruiting practices and sourcing strategies across all hiring efforts.
• Identify opportunities to improve recruiting efficiency, scalability, and quality of hire.
• Stay informed on labor market trends, compensation benchmarks, competitive intelligence, and recruiting best practices.
• Support workforce planning and hiring forecasts with business leaders.
• Lead or participate in Talent Acquisition projects, process improvements, and strategic initiatives.

Skills

Talent Acquisition

Leadership

Executive Search

Boolean Sourcing

ATS Knowledge

Global Recruiting

Tools

Ashby

Juicebox

Job description

Directive Consulting is seeking an Associate Director of Talent Acquisition to lead a small recruiting team and own critical searches. This player-coach role partners with senior leaders to shape hiring strategies and scale operations across the business.

You will manage Ashby as the primary ATS, drive data-driven hiring, build pipelines, and ensure an exceptional candidate experience while guiding strategic workforce planning in a remote, globally distributed environment.