Strategic Talent Acquisition Director, Global Professionals

Maximus; Augusta (ME); On-site; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Maximus is seeking a Professional Talent Stream Director to lead scalable talent acquisition for corporate and shared services. This role drives recruiting delivery across HR, Finance, IT, Legal, and more, partnering with leaders to align hiring with growth and workforce readiness.

The ideal candidate brings strategic, data-informed leadership, process discipline, and experience building AI-enabled, compliant recruiting operations that enhance candidate experience and delivery excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and at least 10 years of related experience in talent acquisition, recruiting operations, workforce planning, human resources, or a related discipline.
• Proven ability to lead through managers and influence senior leaders.
• Experience using data, reporting, and labor market insights to guide recruiting strategy.
• Experience using technology to solve talent acquisition challenges, simplify complexity, and identify opportunities for automation through systems.

Responsibilities

• Execute talent acquisition strategy for assigned talent stream in alignment with enterprise TA governance and direction.
• Lead recruiting delivery against hiring demand, pipeline health, hiring velocity, candidate experience, quality-of-hire, and workforce readiness goals.
• Lead and develop Senior Managers, Managers, and recruiting teams; drive performance, capability building, succession planning, and accountability.
• Serve as a talent advisor to business and operational leaders, communicating labor market realities, hiring risks, pipeline insights, and workforce readiness considerations.
• Partner cross-functionally to support pre-award planning, bid readiness, hiring ramp feasibility (as needed), post-award execution, and ongoing program delivery.
• Improve recruiting processes, systems, workflows, and operating models to enhance performance, scalability, compliance, candidate experience, and delivery consistency.

Skills

Talent acquisition leadership

Data-driven decisions

AI-enabled recruiting

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Maximus is seeking a Professional Talent Stream Director to lead scalable talent acquisition for corporate and shared services. This role drives recruiting delivery across HR, Finance, IT, Legal, and more, partnering with leaders to align hiring with growth and workforce readiness.

The ideal candidate brings strategic, data-informed leadership, process discipline, and experience building AI-enabled, compliant recruiting operations that enhance candidate experience and delivery excellence.