Strategic Talent Acquisition Operations Lead

Kokosing; Westerville (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Kokosing is seeking a Talent Acquisition Operations Manager to serve as a strategic recruiting partner, overseeing full-cycle recruiting for corporate, professional, technical, and leadership roles from our Westerville office.

This role blends hands-on recruiting with projects in technology, data, automation, and process improvement, dedicating 65–70% to recruiting and the rest to systems, reporting, and strategic initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, Communications, or related field.
• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience.
• Experience recruiting for corporate, professional, technical, and leadership positions.
• Experience serving as a super user, administrator, or subject matter expert for an applicant tracking system.
• Experience with Workday Recruiting strongly preferred.
• Experience developing recruiting metrics, reports, dashboards, or analytics preferred.
• Experience leading recruiting process improvement, technology implementation, or operational initiatives preferred.
• Demonstrated success sourcing passive candidates for hard-to-fill positions.

Responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle recruiting for corporate, professional, technical, and senior leadership positions across the organization.
• Partner closely with hiring managers and business leaders to understand hiring needs, workforce planning objectives, and ideal candidate profiles.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies to attract both active and passive candidates through LinkedIn, referrals, industry networks, professional associations, and direct outreach.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders throughout the recruiting process.
• Act as the Talent Acquisition subject matter expert for Workday Recruiting and related recruiting technologies.
• Identify opportunities to improve recruiting workflows, system utilization, data accuracy, and recruiter efficiency.
• Partner with internal stakeholders and external vendors to implement recruiting system enhancements and process improvements.
• Develop and maintain talent acquisition reporting, dashboards, and key recruiting metrics.
• Analyze recruiting trends and provide actionable insights related to hiring volume, time-to-fill, pipeline health, workload distribution, and recruiting effectiveness.
• Evaluate emerging recruiting technologies, automation tools, AI solutions, and vendor partnerships to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Lead or support special projects related to talent acquisition operations, technology, analytics, reporting, and process improvement.
• Promote a positive candidate and hiring manager experience while serving as a brand ambassador for Kokosing.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Sourcing

Recruiting analytics

Workday Recruiting

Process improvement

Stakeholder partnership

Project management

Data-driven

Candidate experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business/Communications

Tools

Workday Recruiting

Job description

Kokosing is seeking a Talent Acquisition Operations Manager to serve as a strategic recruiting partner, overseeing full-cycle recruiting for corporate, professional, technical, and leadership roles from our Westerville office.

This role blends hands-on recruiting with projects in technology, data, automation, and process improvement, dedicating 65–70% to recruiting and the rest to systems, reporting, and strategic initiatives.