Recruiter

The Phoenix Group; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Phoenix Group in Midtown Manhattan is seeking a recruitment professional to run a full-cycle desk focused on legal and administrative talent for direct hire and consulting engagements.

This is a relationship-first role that thrives on building long-term client partnerships and candidate pipelines across law firms, financial services, and corporate environments. You’ll manage multiple searches, grow client relationships, and shape the Professional Services division's growth.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of agency staffing experience in legal, administrative, or professional services
• Proven track record in placing professionals and building long-term client relationships
• Ability to manage multiple searches and develop client ownership and growth
• Strong written and verbal communication demonstrating professionalism and candidate care
• Experience using ATS and sourcing tools to work across multiple searches
• Knowledge of market realities, compensation benchmarks, and candidate profiles

Responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle recruiting for legal and administrative roles: source, screen, present, and close candidates
• Build and maintain candidate pipelines in target practice areas
• Develop and own client relationships, advising on market realities and delivering candidates
• Align on role requirements and compensation benchmarks with hiring managers
• Oversee offers and onboarding, maintaining contact post-placement for repeat business
• Leverage Bullhorn ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter, and AI sourcing tools for efficiency
• Provide market intelligence on compensation trends and talent availability
• Mentor junior team members with candidate relationship strategies and processes

Skills

Relationship building

Full-cycle recruiting

Client development

Communication skills

Tools

Bullhorn ATS

LinkedIn Recruiter

AI sourcing tools

Job description

Professional Services Group ·Hybrid · Midtown Manhattan ·Full-Time

If you’ve spent 3+ years placing legal and administrative talent at a staffing agency and you want a role where your relationships — with candidates and clients alike — are actually yours to build and own, keep reading

The Professional Services Group at The Phoenix Group is one of our most relationship-driven practices. The professionals you’ll place — paralegals, executive assistants, HR managers, operations leads — are the people who keep organizations functioning. Placing them well, and doing it consistently, builds the kind of trust that turns a client into a long-term partner. That’s what this role is built aroun

Location

Midtown Manhattan — Hybrid (Tue / Wed / Thu in-office; Mon & Fri remote

Schedule

8:30 AM-5:30 PM EST + Summer Fridays with early office close

Experience

3+ years of agency staffing experience in legal, admin, or professional services

Division

Professional Services Group: Legal, Administrative, HR, Operations

Clients

Law firms, financial services, corporations, startups, professional service

About The Phoenix Group

TPG is a boutique staffing firm headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. We place professionals across Technology, Accounting & Finance, Legal, Administrative, and Human Resources on both direct hire and consulting engagements. The Professional Services Group covers Legal, Administrative, HR, and Operations — a practice that spans everything from first-day executive assistants to senior paralegals at AmLaw firms. We are growing this division deliberately, and this hire is central to that growth.

The Role

You’ll run a full-cycle desk placing legal and administrative professionals across law firms, financial services companies, and corporate environments on direct hire and consulting engagements. This is a relationship-first role and the professionals you place have long careers, move between organizations, and refer colleagues. The recruiters who succeed here are the ones who treat every candidate interaction as the start of a long-term relationship, not a transaction.

You’ll manage multiple searches at once, develop your own client relationships, and have real input into how the Professional Services division grows. High performers in this role have moved into client ownership, practice leadership, and team management. The path is open and tied to what you produce

What you'll do

• Manage full-cycle recruiting for legal and administrative roles: source, screen, present, and close candidates on both direct hire and consulting placements
• Build and maintain deep candidate pipelines in your practice areas — you should know who’s actively looking, who’s open to the right conversation, and who to call when a client needs
• Develop and own client relationships: understand what each client actually needs (not just what’s on the job description), advise on market realities, and deliver candidates
• Partner with hiring managers and client contacts to align on role requirements, compensation benchmarks, and candidate profiles before sourcing begins
• Manage the offer and onboarding process through start date; stay in contact post-placement to drive repeat business, referrals, and long‑term account growth
• Leverage Bullhorn ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter, and AI‑powered sourcing tools to work efficiently across multiple active searches
• Contribute market intelligence on compensation trends, talent availability, and competitor activity that helps TPG position the Professional Services division more effectively
• Mentor junior team members as your tenure and performance grow — sharing candidate relationship strategies, client communication approaches, and process

Roles You’ll Recruit for

• Paralegals & Legal Assistants
• Litigation Support P
• Executive Assistants
• Admin Assistants
• Office Managers
• Human Resources
• Operations
• Business Support (Direct Hire & consulting)

What We’re Looking for

• 3+ years of agency staffing experience — this is a hard requirement. In‑house talent acquisition or corporate HR experience does not substitute for agency recruiting
• Demonstrated experience placing legal, administrative, HR, or operations professionals; direct experience with law firm clients is a plus
• A track record you can speak to: you know your placement numbers, your client retention, and what makes you different from the recruiter at the comepeting agency
• Genuine relationship instincts — you remember candidates, follow up without being prompted, and build networks that pay off over months and years, not just on the current search
• Client development ability: you’re comfortable asking for business, managing client expectations, and pushing back when a req isn’t going to be fillable
• Strong written and verbal communication that reflects well on you and on TPG — your emails and calls are clear, professional, and candidates
• Ability to manage multiple searches simultaneously without losing quality
• Bullhorn ATS experience is a plus; comfort with LinkedIn Recruiter and AI sourcing tool

The Phoenix Group Advisors is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. We strive to attract talented individuals from all backgrounds and provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment.