Senior Recruiter

Gradient Financial Group; Arden Hills (MN); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks PTO

9 paid holidays

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

401(k)

Volunteering time off

Job summary

Gradient Financial Group in Minnesota is seeking a Senior Recruiter to own the full recruiting cycle, from sourcing through offer acceptance, partnering with hiring managers and leadership to attract top talent for a growing organization.

You'll build pipelines across corporate and professional roles, screen candidates, coordinate interviews, and provide market insights to improve hiring efficiency while maintaining a positive candidate experience.

Qualifications

• Experience managing full-cycle recruiting for corporate roles.
• Strong sourcing and screening skills.
• Proven ability to assess culture fit and technical requirements.
• Experience with ATS systems and recruiting platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle recruitment from sourcing to offer acceptance.
• Partner with hiring managers to define role profiles and hiring plans.
• Source candidates via LinkedIn, job boards, referrals, and recruiting tools.
• Screen, interview, and assess candidates for skills and culture fit.
• Coordinate interview processes and communicate feedback with stakeholders.
• Maintain candidate records and report on recruiting KPIs.
• Contribute to employer branding and candidate experience.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Candidate sourcing

Interviewing

ATS

Relationship-building

Communication skills

Data-driven recruiting

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

ATS

Indeed

LinkedIn Recruiter

Microsoft Office

Job description

Are you a people-focused recruiting professional who thrives on connecting great talent with meaningful career opportunities? Do you enjoy building relationships, identifying top candidates, and creating efficient recruiting processes that support a rapidly growing organization? This is an opportunity to play a key role in building the team at Gradient. We’re looking for a Senior Recruiter who is more than a candidate sourcer. This role will serve as a trusted recruiting partner to hiring managers and leadership, helping attract, assess, and hire talented professionals across the organization. The recruiter will own the recruiting process from initial sourcing through offer acceptance while creating a positive, professional candidate experience.

What You’ll Do

• Manage full-cycle recruiting for a variety of corporate, operational, and professional positions.
• Partner with hiring managers to understand hiring needs, develop effective recruiting strategies, and define candidate profiles.
• Source qualified candidates through LinkedIn, job boards, networking, referrals, recruiting platforms, and other creative channels.
• Screen and assess candidates based on skills, experience, culture fit, and position requirements.
• Conduct phone and video interviews and coordinate interview processes with hiring teams. Build and maintain strong pipelines of qualified candidates for current and anticipated openings.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, providing market insights, candidate feedback, and recommendations throughout the hiring process.
• Develop compelling job postings and recruiting materials that attract high-quality candidates.
• Manage candidate communications and ensure a timely, engaging, and professional candidate experience.
• Track recruiting activity, pipeline metrics, time-to-fill, source effectiveness, and other key recruiting KPIs.
• Maintain accurate and organized candidate records within the ATS and recruiting systems.
• Identify opportunities to improve recruiting processes, systems, reporting, and overall hiring efficiency.
• Support employer branding, career fairs, networking events, and other talent attraction initiatives.
• Promote a culture of professionalism, accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Communications, or a related field preferred.
• 1-3 years of recruiting or talent acquisition experience, preferably with experience managing full-cycle recruitment.
• Financial services experience- preferred
• Demonstrated success sourcing and hiring high-quality candidates across multiple functions and levels.
• Strong knowledge of recruiting best practices, interviewing techniques, candidate assessment, and employment practices.
• Experience using an ATS, Indeed, job boards, or similar recruiting technology.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills with the ability to establish credibility with candidates, hiring managers, and leadership.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple open positions and competing priorities.
• Creative and resourceful approach to candidate sourcing and talent pipeline development.
• Ability to use recruiting data and metrics to evaluate and improve talent acquisition strategies.
• High level of professionalism, integrity, discretion, and attention to confidentiality.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, growing organization where priorities may evolve quickly.

Our Benefits

• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits
• 4 weeks of accrued PTO, plus 9 paid holidays
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and 401(k)
• 8 hours of paid volunteer time off (VTO)
• Ongoing professional development and training
• Ability to work in-office four days per week with one remote workday
• A collaborative team that values expertise, initiative, and growth

Why You’ll Love Working Here

At Gradient, we set high expectations, but we back them with support, collaboration, and opportunities to grow. If you’re positive, driven, relationship-oriented, and enjoy helping great people find their next opportunity, you’ll feel right at home. As Gradient continues to grow, you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on our talent strategy, help build high-performing teams, and shape recruiting processes that can scale with the organization. Check out more amazing opportunities here: https://www.careers.gradientfinancialgroup.com/