Director Talent Acquisition

Lu Guasco & Co.; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Lu Guasco & Co. seeks a Director of Talent Acquisition to design and scale a nation-wide TA function in the data center and critical infrastructure space.

This senior leader will build strategy, processes, technology, and a durable team to support rapid growth across the United States. Reporting to the CPO, you will own executive searches, develop college and early-career pipelines, and deliver scalable recruiting operations with dashboards and SLAs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive Talent Acquisition experience with 5+ years leading recruiting teams.
• Experience building and scaling a TA function within a high-growth, multi-site organization.
• Experience recruiting across executive, corporate, technical, engineering, and field roles.
• Strong sourcing, analytics, employer branding, and recruiting technology skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and execute an enterprise-wide Talent Acquisition strategy aligned with growth plans.
• Lead, mentor, and hold accountable a high-performing recruiting team.
• Create scalable recruiting processes, workflows, SLAs, dashboards, and reporting.
• Select, implement, and optimize recruiting technology including ATS and AI tools.
• Personally lead executive searches while expanding the TA capability.
• Develop talent pipelines for technical, engineering, construction, and operations roles.
• Establish college, early-career, internship, and rotational programs.
• Build rapid-hiring capabilities for new site launches and market expansion.
• Provide TA analytics on time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, and ROI; advise leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

People management

Stakeholder management

Executive presence

Tools

ATS

AI-enabled recruiting tools

Job description

Do you have deep Talent Acquisition experience and want the opportunity to build, scale, and lead a TA function during a period of significant growth? This could be the job for you!

Our client, a fast-growing national organization in the data center/critical infrastructure space, is searching for a Director of Talent Acquisition to build a best-in-class recruiting function that can support significant expansion across the U.S.

Reporting directly to a dynamic CPO, this is a highly visible leadership role for someone who knows how to build while executing, creating the strategy, infrastructure, technology, processes, and team while continuing to deliver against immediate hiring needs.

This leader will recruit across a broad and complex population including corporate, executive, engineering, construction, technical, field, and data center operations talent.

What You'll Do

• Build and execute an enterprise-wide Talent Acquisition strategy aligned with aggressive growth and workforce plans
• Build, lead, mentor, and hold accountable a high-performing recruiting team
• Create scalable recruiting processes, tools, workflows, SLAs, metrics, dashboards, and reporting
• Select, implement, and optimize recruiting technology, including the ATS and AI-enabled recruiting tools
• Personally lead executive and difficult-to-fill searches while building the broader TA capability
• Develop recruiting strategies for technical, engineering, construction, critical facilities, operations, and corporate talent
• Build college, early-career, internship, apprenticeship, co-op, and rotational programs
• Develop market-specific talent pipelines through universities, trade schools, workforce development organizations, and industry partnerships
• Build rapid-hiring capabilities to support new site launches, market expansion, and continued organizational growth
• Establish meaningful TA analytics including time-to-fill, quality-of-hire, cost-per-hire, pipeline conversion, and program ROI
• Strengthen employer branding and deliver a best-in-class candidate experience
• Serve as a strategic advisor to the CPO and senior leadership on labor markets, talent availability, wage pressures, and competitive hiring trends

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of progressive Talent Acquisition experience with 5+ years leading recruiting teams
• Proven experience building and scaling a TA function within a high-growth, multi-site or geographically dispersed organization
• Experience recruiting across a broad range of talent: executive/corporate as well as technical, operational, construction, engineering, or field-based roles
• Strong understanding of modern sourcing strategies, recruiting technology, analytics, and employer branding
• Experience implementing or optimizing an ATS and recruiting technology stack
• Strong executive presence and the ability to influence and partner with C-suite and senior business leaders

Highly Preferred

• Experience within data centers, critical infrastructure, engineering, construction, real estate, hyperscale, wholesale colocation, or another capital-project-driven environment.
• Experience building early-career and skilled-trades talent pipelines and leveraging AI-enabled recruiting technology is also highly valued.

This is an exceptional opportunity for a Talent Acquisition leader who wants to build something, not simply inherit and maintain an existing function.