Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant

PowerSchool Group LLC; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

PowerSchool is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant to lead full life-cycle recruiting across multiple functions. You will partner with hiring leaders, build market-informed strategies, and ensure a strong candidate experience in a hybrid Plano, TX setting.

You will guide hiring decisions with evidence-based recommendations, manage multiple searches, and help shape recruiting practices through collaboration with PowerSchool’s Talent Acquisition team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full life-cycle recruiting in corporate, staffing, or search environments.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with hiring leaders to understand business goals and role outcomes.
• Develop recruiting strategies using market insight and candidate evidence.
• Manage multiple concurrent searches with high responsiveness and candidate experience.
• Identify and engage active and passive candidates via networks, platforms, referrals, events, and AI tools.
• Conduct structured behavioral interviews to assess skills and motivation.
• Provide clear recommendations and challenge assumptions when needed.
• Build long-term relationships and talent communities across PowerSchool and EdTech markets.
• Continuously improve recruiting practices, tools, and processes.

Skills

Life-cycle recruiting

Stakeholder management

Sourcing strategies

Behavioral interviewing

ATS & sourcing tools

Travel ability

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Overview

About PowerSchool

At PowerSchool, we power education for students around the world. As a global leader in cloud-based K-12 education technology, we help schools operate more effectively and support better outcomes for educators, students, and families.

Our Talent Acquisition team connects exceptional people to meaningful work. We aim to set the standard in EdTech for innovation, service, experience, and inclusion, while ensuring every hire strengthens PowerSchool and empowers the customers we serve.

Responsibilities

About the Role

As a Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant, you will do more than "recruit". You will serve as a trusted business advisor, a talent market expert, and an advocate for a strong candidate experience.

You will lead full life-cycle recruiting across multiple functions, helping leaders define what success looks like, identify the capabilities needed to achieve it, and build recruiting strategies that deliver the right people for the work.

What You Will Do

• Partner with hiring leaders to understand business goals, team needs, and the outcomes each hire must deliver.
• Build recruiting strategies using market insight, sourcing data, compensation context, and candidate evidence.
• Manage multiple searches while maintaining responsiveness, quality, accuracy, and a strong candidate experience.
• Proactively identify and engage active and passive candidates through professional networks, sourcing platforms, referrals, events, and AI-enabled tools.
• Conduct structured, behavioral interviews to assess skills, experience, competencies, motivation, and readiness for the role.
• Provide clear candidate recommendations and respectfully challenge assumptions when the evidence, market, or business need suggests a different approach.
• Build long-term relationships and talent communities across PowerSchool and the EdTech market.
• Continuously improve recruiting practices, tools, processes, and experiences.

Qualifications

What Will Help You Succeed

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of full life-cycle recruiting experience in a corporate, staffing, or search environment.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent requisitions across different functions or levels.
• Demonstrated success developing proactive sourcing strategies for active and passive candidates.
• Experience using behavioral interviewing techniques and translating evidence into candidate recommendations.
• Experience advising hiring leaders throughout the recruiting and selection process.
• Experience using an applicant tracking system and sourcing technologies.
• Ability to travel approximately 5% to 10% for business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience recruiting in SaaS, technology, EdTech, or another complex professional environment.
• Staffing or executive search experience.
• Workday Recruiting experience.
• Experience using AI-enabled recruiting or sourcing tools.
• PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, or comparable certification.

The Capabilities That Matter

Success in this role requires strong business acumen, sound judgment, clear communication, and the ability to influence through trust rather than authority.

You should be comfortable:

• Translating business needs into recruiting strategy.
• Advising leaders with confidence and credibility.
• Building relationships across levels and functions.
• Using market insight and evidence to improve hiring decisions.
• Creating proactive talent pipelines before needs become urgent.
• Balancing ownership and urgency with thoughtful judgment.
• Delivering a customer and candidate experience built on ownership, urgency, relationships and service.

Compensation & Benefits

Location and Travel

This is a hybrid position in our Plano, TX corporate office.

Regular onsite presence is expected based on team and business needs. Occasional travel of approximately 5% to 10% may be required.

Compensation

Compensation may vary based on relevant skills and experience, education, certifications, internal equity, pay ranges, and market data.

Benefits

PowerSchool offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life and disability coverage, 401(k), parental leave, Discretionary Time Off, wellness programs, tuition reimbursement, and additional voluntary benefits.

EEO Commitment

EEO Commitment

PowerSchool is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. PowerSchool is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers PowerSchoolers to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process, please let us know by emailing [e-mail].