Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

SeaHill Consulting Group; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SeaHill Consulting Group seeks a senior Talent Acquisition Partner to lead end-to-end recruiting for professional and leadership roles. You will partner with executives, hiring managers, and HR to translate business priorities into sourcing and selection strategies.

Responsibilities include managing the candidate experience, building pipelines, conducting evaluations, and guiding offer negotiations with a focus on culture and executive presence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting or talent acquisition experience supporting professional, corporate, or leadership-level positions.
• Experience supporting professional, corporate, or leadership-level roles and translating business needs into sourcing strategies.
• Experience presenting candidate profiles, market data, and recruiting recommendations to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead intake meetings with executives and hiring managers to define position scope and evaluation criteria.
• Source and engage qualified candidates via LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, referrals, and internal pipelines.
• Conduct comprehensive interviews and present well-qualified profiles to hiring teams.
• Guide candidates through interviews by detailing organization, leadership team, and process.
• Coordinate interviews across stakeholders and maintain timely communication with candidates and teams.
• Draft communications, provide updates, and manage offer negotiations in partnership with HR.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Executive search

Relationship building

Stakeholder management

Candidate evaluation

Market intelligence

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR or related field

Tools

Applicant Tracking Systems

LinkedIn Recruiter

Job boards

Job description

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle, including intake meetings, sourcing, candidate screening, interview coordination, offer negotiation, and onboarding transition.
• Partner directly with executives, senior leaders, and hiring managers to understand organizational priorities, position requirements, team dynamics, and long-term hiring needs.
• Recruit for a broad range of professional positions across Human Resources, business operations, government affairs, public policy, communications, administration, and other corporate functions.
• Develop customized recruiting strategies for complex, highly visible, and leadership-facing searches.
• Serve as a trusted talent advisor by providing hiring managers with market intelligence, candidate availability, compensation insights, and recommendations throughout the search process.
• Build and maintain strong pipelines of passive and active candidates through direct sourcing, networking, referrals, professional associations, and external recruiting platforms.
• Deliver a highly professional candidate experience that reflects the organization’s values, culture, and executive presence.
• Conduct detailed candidate evaluations focused on professional experience, leadership capabilities, communication skills, business judgment, and organizational fit.
• Manage offer development and negotiation in partnership with Human Resources, compensation teams, and business leadership.
• Maintain accurate recruiting activity, candidate records, interview feedback, and hiring documentation within the Applicant Tracking System.
• Monitor recruiting metrics, pipeline health, hiring progress, and time-to-fill while providing clear updates to business leaders.
• Support recruiting process improvements, employer branding initiatives, workforce planning activities, and broader talent acquisition programs.

Day to Day Responsibilities

• Lead intake meetings with hiring managers and executives to define position scope, required qualifications, preferred experience, and candidate evaluation criteria.
• Source and engage qualified candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, professional networks, referrals, targeted outreach, and internal talent pipelines.
• Conduct comprehensive recruiter interviews and present well-qualified candidate profiles to hiring teams.
• Prepare candidates for interviews by providing clear information regarding the organization, position, leadership team, and selection process.
• Coordinate interviews across multiple stakeholders while maintaining timely and professional communication with candidates and hiring teams.
• Facilitate candidate debrief meetings and help hiring managers evaluate qualifications, executive presence, communication style, and overall fit.
• Manage multiple professional and leadership-level searches simultaneously while maintaining attention to detail and urgency.
• Draft and deliver candidate communications, interview updates, offer details, and other recruiting-related correspondence.
• Build strong relationships with candidates, executives, hiring managers, HR partners, and other internal stakeholders.
• Track recruiting activity and prepare status reports, pipeline summaries, hiring metrics, and executive-level updates.
• Maintain confidentiality and professional discretion when supporting sensitive, high-profile, or leadership-level searches.
• Stay informed on relevant labor market conditions, recruiting trends, candidate expectations, and competitive hiring practices.

Preferred Experience and Attributes

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting or talent acquisition experience supporting professional, corporate, or leadership-level positions.
• Demonstrated experience recruiting across Human Resources, business operations, government affairs, public policy, communications, administrative leadership, or related functions.
• Experience managing the complete recruiting process from initial intake through accepted offer and onboarding transition.
• Proven ability to communicate confidently and professionally with executives, senior leaders, hiring managers, and high-level candidates.
• Strong executive presence with exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to understand complex business needs and translate them into effective sourcing and candidate evaluation strategies.
• Experience recruiting for positions requiring discretion, political awareness, sound judgment, and strong stakeholder management.
• Strong direct sourcing capabilities with experience identifying and engaging passive professional talent.
• Experience presenting candidate profiles, market data, and recruiting recommendations to senior leadership.
• Strong negotiation skills with experience managing offers, compensation discussions, and candidate expectations.
• Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems, LinkedIn Recruiter, and other recruiting and sourcing technologies.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and searches simultaneously.
• High level of professionalism, confidentiality, emotional intelligence, and attention to detail.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Communications, Political Science, or a related field is preferred.