Director, Legal Talent Development

Madden Talent Partners; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Madden Talent Partners, in partnership with Major, Lindsey & Africa (MLA), seeks a Director, Candidate Development for its Interim Legal Talent practice in a hybrid model (NYC and LA; 1–2 days in office). The role focuses on identifying, engaging, and developing relationships with exceptional legal talent for interim and contract assignments.

Working closely with Managing Directors, you will build pipelines, synthesize candidate summaries, manage relationships through interviews and offers, and

Qualifications

• Legal recruiting or legal staffing experience.
• Approximately 1–3 years of recruiting experience within legal, technology, finance, life sciences, engineering, or another specialized staffing market.
• Experience sourcing, interviewing and managing candidates in a high-activity recruiting environment.
• An early-career attorney interested in transitioning into a relationship-driven legal recruiting career.

Responsibilities

• Identify and engage attorneys and other legal professionals through LinkedIn Recruiter, Bullhorn, referrals, direct outreach and market research.
• Build and maintain strong pipelines of active and passive candidates across priority legal practice areas.
• Conduct thoughtful candidate interviews to assess experience, presence, motivation and fit.
• Develop compelling candidate summaries for internal and client-facing teams.
• Manage candidate relationships through interviews, compensation discussions, and offers.
• Maintain regular communication with placed professionals throughout assignments.
• Capture market intelligence from candidate conversations and share insights with colleagues.
• Manage multiple searches and changing priorities with urgency and follow-through.
• Collaborate with Managing Directors and recruiters across MLA’s platform.

Skills

Relationship-building

Communication skills

Professional maturity

Intellectual curiosity

Proactive approach

Follow-through

Collaboration

Integrity

Education

J.D. is valuable but not required

Job description

Madden Talent Partners, in partnership with Major, Lindsey & Africa (MLA), seeks a Director, Candidate Development for its Interim Legal Talent practice in a hybrid model (NYC and LA; 1–2 days in office). The role focuses on identifying, engaging, and developing relationships with exceptional legal talent for interim and contract assignments.

Working closely with Managing Directors, you will build pipelines, synthesize candidate summaries, manage relationships through interviews and offers, and