Senior Talent Acquisition Manager (remote US)

ARAVAS INC; Pennsylvania; Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

FSAs

Paid time off & holidays

Parental leave

401(k) with match

Life/AD&D, STD/LTD

Equity & bonus potential

Job summary

Savara is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Manager to lead US recruiting with a hands-on, individual-contributor approach. You will own full lifecycle recruiting, optimize the candidate experience, and manage our recruiting systems across multiple states.

Role is remote in the US with quarterly travel to the Philadelphia area and close collaboration with executives and hiring managers to scale the company while maintaining high hiring standards.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of full lifecycle recruiting in biotech or pharma.

Responsibilities

• Own full life-cycle recruiting for all vacancies company-wide.
• Source, screen, and manage candidate pipelines across functions.
• Engage external recruiters for surge or specialized searches.
• Design a transparent, candidate-centered hiring experience.
• Administer recruiting systems, tools, and reporting.
• Improve repeatable, compliant hiring processes and workflows.
• Partner with HR and leadership to strengthen employer brand.
• Manage requisition approvals and headcount tracking with CPO.
• Ensure compliance with multi-state and federal laws.
• Coordinate offers and onboarding handoffs with Hiring Managers.
• Track, analyze, and report recruitment metrics.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Full lifecycle recruiting

Stakeholder management

Candidate experience focus

English communication

Structured interviews

Employer branding

Integrity & discretion

Multi-state employment law

Tools

ATS

Scheduling software

Recruiting tech

Job description

The Senior Talent Acquisition (TA) Manager is Savara's dedicated US talent acquisition leader, responsible for both managing TA across the company and personally recruiting. This is a hands‑on, individual-contributor role in which the Senior Manager personally executes every stage of the hiring process, from intake and sourcing through scheduling, offers, and systems administration. This individual will help scale a growing, multi-state company while ensuring that speed and growth never come at the expense of how candidates and employees experience the hiring process.

Responsibilities

• Champion a talent acquisition culture that reflects Savara's values, prioritizing integrity, respect, and a genuinely positive experience for every candidate, whether or not they receive an offer.
• Own full life-cycle recruiting for all open vacancies company-wide, from intake through start date, partnering directly with hiring managers and executives on role scoping, sourcing strategy, and search calibration.
• Source, screen, and manage candidate pipelines, spanning clinical, scientific, commercial, and corporate functions.
• Identify, engage, and manage relationships with external contract recruiters and agencies for surge or specialized searches, including scoping assignments, setting quality and experience standards, and reviewing performance.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve a candidate and hiring‑manager experience that is responsive, transparent, and respectful at every stage, treating this as a non‑negotiable even under hiring pressure.
• Own and administer Savara's recruiting systems and tools (ATS, sourcing, scheduling, and reporting platforms), ensuring they support a smooth, well‑organized experience for candidates and hiring teams.
• Manage and improve repeatable, compliant hiring processes and tools, including structured interview guides, scorecards, and offer workflows, that scale with the company's growth.
• Partner with Corporate Affairs and HR leadership to strengthen Savara's employer brand across the career site, social channels, and candidate‑facing messaging.
• Manage requisition approvals and headcount tracking in partnership with the Chief People Officer (CPO).
• Ensure hiring practices comply with applicable multi-state and federal employment laws given Savara's distributed workforce.
• Partner with HR and Hiring Managers to ensure a seamless, well‑coordinated handoff from offer acceptance into onboarding.
• Track, analyze, and report recruiting metrics (time‑to‑fill, pipeline health, source of hire, offer acceptance, candidate experience feedback) to the CPO and business leaders.
• Other duties and projects as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• At least 6 years of full lifecycle experience recruiting within small or emerging biotech or pharmaceutical companies is required.
• Demonstrated experience operating as a lean or "team of one" talent acquisition function, including sourcing directly and managing external recruiting partners or agencies.
• A genuine, demonstrated commitment to candidate and employee experience, with a track record of building hiring processes that are both efficient and respectful
• Advanced skills managing and using an ATS, scheduling software, and other recruiting technology.
• Working knowledge of multi-state employment law.
• Experience recruiting across a range of functions, including scientific, clinical, commercial, and corporate roles.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust and credibility with executives and hiring managers.
• Strong instincts for employer branding and storytelling that reflect company culture authentically.
• Keen attention to detail, ability to speak and write effectively in English, and a strong ability to synthesize and organize information
• High integrity, sound judgment, and the ability to maintain confidentiality.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• No direct employee reports; directs and manages the work of external 1099 contract recruiters, including scoping assignments, setting expectations, and reviewing performance and quality.

Location and Travel

• This role is remote and requires availability to work and take meetings across US time zones as needed
• This role requires travel to the Savara office outside of Philadelphia, PA approximately quarterly, and additional domestic travel as needed.

Savara provides comprehensive benefits including

• Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health care and dependent care expenses
• Paid time off and paid holidays, including Dec 24-Jan 1
• Paid parental leave
• 401(k) with highly competitive match
• Life, AD&D, STD and LTD insurance coverage

Savara’s compensation can include an hourly rate, bonus, and equity. This role may be filled at a Senior Manager or Associate Director level, and the salary range is $125,000 to $165,000.

About Savara

Savara is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on rare respiratory diseases. Our lead product candidate, MOLBREEVI*, is an inhaled recombinant human granulocyte‑macrophage colony‑stimulating factor (GM‑CSF) in Phase 3 development for autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (autoimmune PAP). MOLBREEVI is delivered via a proprietary investigational eFLOW® Nebulizer System (PARI Pharma GmbH) specifically developed for inhalation of MOLBREEVI.

Our management team has significant experience in orphan drug development and pulmonary medicine, identifying unmet needs, and effectively advancing product candidates to approval and commercialization.

Our goal is to become a leader in rare respiratory disease therapeutics through the development and commercialization of novel, best‑in‑class medicines that address unmet medical needs in this field.

Savara is an equal opportunity employer.

• MOLBREEVI is the FDA and EMA conditionally accepted trade name for molgramostim inhalation solution. It is not approved in any indication. MOLBREEVI is a trademark of Savara Inc.

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