Director of Talent Acquisition

Frontsteps; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite parking

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k match

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Paid Time Off

Job summary

FRONTSTEPS is seeking its first Director of Talent Acquisition to partner directly with our CEO and build a world-class recruiting function. This is a hands-on role; you will source, screen, assess, and close talent from IC to VP level on-site in Denver.

You will own full-cycle recruiting, build a robust talent bench, set hiring standards, manage offers and compensation, and drive metrics like time-to-fill and quality-of-hire.

Qualifications

• Proven full-cycle recruiting with VP-level talent sourcing and closing.
• Experience in growth-stage, PE-backed environments preferred.
• Strong data-driven decision making and market benchmarking.

Responsibilities

• Source, screen, assess, and close talent from IC to executive leadership.
• Build proactive talent pipelines and a bench for future needs.
• Partner with hiring managers, write scorecards, set expectations.
• Own offers, compensation benchmarking, and closing strategies.
• Drive recruiting operations, metrics, and employer brand.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Passive sourcing

Hiring manager partnership

Offers and closing

Employer branding

Recruiting operations

AI-driven sourcing

Executive presence

Data-driven decisions

Compensation benchmarking

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

ATS

Job description

Director of Talent Acquisition
Onsite Position

FRONTSTEPS, a profitable, high-growth industry leader, is hiring our first Director of Talent Acquisition to partner directly with our CEO and build the best team in the game. This is a hands-on recruiting seat, not a management layer. You carry the reqs, you work the phones, and you close. The mandate is simple and it is measured: raise talent density by bringing in exceptional talent at all times, across every function, faster and better than the competition can. Talent gaps rarely close on their own, so this role acts with urgency and conviction rather than waiting for the market to deliver.

What You Will Own:

• Full-cycle recruiting, end to end and on-site. You personally source, screen, assess, and close talent from individual contributor through VP and executive leadership.
• Pipeline building. Proactive outbound sourcing of passive, top-performing candidates and a standing bench of talent for the roles the business will need next, not just the ones open today.
• Hiring manager partnership. Set the bar with each functional leader, write the scorecard, run the process, and hold the line on quality.
• Offers and closing. Market data, leveling, and offer construction that wins the candidates you want without breaking the bands.
• Recruiting operations and employer brand. The ATS, the sourcing stack, the metrics that drive data-driven hiring decisions, and the story that makes FRONTSTEPS worth joining.
• Speed and cost. Own time-to-fill, quality-of-hire, and the elimination of agency spend.

What Makes This Different:

This is not an HR role. Benefits, payroll, compliance, employee relations, and HR administration are handled by our PEO (Professional Employer Organization) and a separate HR Generalist contractor who reports to the CEO. Performance management and talent development are owned elsewhere. One hundred percent of your time goes to recruiting. Your sole mission is attracting, assessing, and closing exceptional talent. You report directly to our CEO, set the recruiting philosophy, and build a world-class recruiting function that you own outright. This is a high-accountability seat for a recruiter who wants scope and wants to be measured on results.

Compensation and Benefits:

We know that great hiring creates outsized business value, and we are willing to pay well for a recruiter who can consistently upgrade talent across the organization. Compensation for this role is $150,000 - $190,000 base salary, plus a 15% target annual bonus. Our benefits package includes:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with company contribution
• Life and disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Direct access to the CEO and the executive leadership team

We work to maintain the best environment for our employees, where people can learn and grow with the company. We strive to provide a collaborative, creative environment where everyone feels encouraged to contribute to our processes, decisions, planning, and culture.

To thrive as our Director of Talent Acquisition, you should have:

• A proven full-cycle recruiter who has personally sourced and closed VP-level talent without agency dependency, at a pace of at least 20 hires per year.
• AI-first mindset with hands-on experience using AI across sourcing, screening, and outreach to increase leverage, paired with strong judgment to verify and challenge its output. We cannot afford to go backwards with AI.
• Deep sourcing craft: outbound, referrals, networks, and market mapping. You find the people who are not looking.
• Experience recruiting in a growth-stage, private equity-backed company of roughly 75 to 100 employees, where you are the whole recruiting function rather than one seat inside a large team.
• Prior staffing agency or large in-house recruiting experience preferred. You learned the rigor, structure, and pace of a big player before bringing it in-house.
• A track record of recruiting technical, sales, and leadership roles, with credibility in the room with the hiring executives.
• Command of recruiting metrics: time-to-fill, source of hire, quality-of-hire, offer acceptance, and agency spend reduction.
• Fluency with compensation benchmarking, leveling, and offer strategy, plus the financial literacy to model fully loaded headcount costs.
• Executive presence and analytical rigor, with the ability to communicate clearly with the CEO, defend a point of view, and stand behind data-driven recommendations.

Benefits for Full Time roles include the following:

• 100% company paid onsite employee parking
• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Company-sponsored Life Insurance
• Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance
• FSA/HSA
• Paid Time Off
• Sick Time
• 401k match

FRONTSTEPS is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.