Head of Recruitment

Tiger Recruitment; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Tiger Recruitment, partnered with a leading law firm, seeks a Head of Recruitment to oversee recruiting for attorneys, legal professionals, and business staff across the firm.

The role requires strategic leadership, managing recruiters, and close collaboration with senior leadership. It is a nationwide, hybrid position with accountability for hiring across multiple markets and practice areas.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive recruiting experience, including significant time in the legal field.
• Bachelor's degree, JD preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage and handle the recruiting function; manage a nationwide portfolio of open requisitions.
• Hire for all corporate functions including attorney hiring, covering a wide range of litigation and practice areas.
• Deep knowledge of agency partnerships, sourcing platforms including LinkedIn Recruiter and Indeed, and an applicant tracking system.
• Understand market complexity, practice growth, or expansion into new markets.
• High-volume recruiters, recruiting coordinators, and operations.
• Perform with a metric mindset and track performance through accurate data.
• Drive hiring strategy across practice areas and markets, from long-tenured flagship offices to active expansion territories.
• Own the approach to lateral attorney hiring and high-volume staff hiring.
• Understand brand positioning, including the ability to compete for candidates coming from big law firms.
• Standardize all recruitment operations and processes from scheduling, pipelines, acceptance, cost per hire, etc.
• Partner directly with firm leadership and department heads to communicate pipeline status, surface hiring risks, and align priorities and headcount plans.
• Build and manage external recruiting partnerships, including search firms and staffing agencies.
• Lead hiring strategy for new and emerging markets where the firm is actively building its footprint.

Skills

Strategic recruiting

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

JD preferred

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

Indeed

Applicant Tracking System

Job description

Tiger Recruitment is partnered with a law firm that is looking to hire a Head of Recruitment. This individual will manage recruiting at the firm, including attorneys, legal professionals, and business/corporate hiring. To succeed, you will need to be very strategic and have managed teams of recruiters before. They have offices throughout the country, and you will have a close relationship with senior leadership. This is a hybrid position.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage and handle the recruiting function; manage a nationwide portfolio of open requisitions
• Hire for all corporate functions including attorney hiring, covering a wide range of litigation and practice areas.
• Deep knowledge of agency partnerships, sourcing platforms including LinkedIn Recruiter and Indeed, and an applicant tracking system
• Understanding of market complexity, practice growth, or expansion into new markets.
• High-volume recruiters, recruiting coordinators, and operations.
• Perform with a metric mindset and track performance through accurate data.
• Drive hiring strategy across practice areas and markets, from long-tenured flagship

offices to active expansion territories.

• Own the approach to lateral attorney hiring and high-volume staff hiring.
• Understand brand positioning, including the ability to compete for candidates coming from big law firms.
• Standardize all recruitment operations and processes from scheduling, pipelines, acceptance, cost per hire, etc.
• Partner directly with firm leadership and department heads to communicate pipeline status, surface hiring risks, and align priorities and headcount plans.
• Build and manage external recruiting partnerships, including search firms and staffing agencies.
• Lead hiring strategy for new and emerging markets where the firm is actively building its footprint. Identify

EXPERIENCE:

• 10+ years of progressive recruiting experience, including significant time in the legal field.
• Bachelor's degree BUT JD is preferred.
• Experience overseeing both specialized professional hiring and high-volume hiring.
• Experience hiring in a large in-house legal department or top-tier legal search firms.
• Experience managing recruiters and recruiting managers, including setting goals.
• Credible at the senior leadership level; this role presents regularly to firm leadership.