Strategic Talent Acquisition Partner

hireneXus; Boulder (CO); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Retirement plan matching

Paid time off and company holidays

Job summary

hireneXus is seeking a strategic Senior Talent Acquisition Partner to lead full-cycle recruitment across science, engineering, and project management roles. You will partner with principals and practice leaders to deliver top talent, shaping workforce plans and onboarding processes for high-impact projects.

In this role, you will drive candidate experience, use recruiting analytics to optimize outcomes, and build diverse pipelines while ensuring compliance and confidentiality across the firm.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing full-cycle recruitment.
• Proven success partnering with senior technical and business leaders.
• Ability to evaluate scientists, engineers, project managers, and other technical professionals.
• Strong understanding of recruiting analytics, market trends, and KPIs.
• Knowledge of fair employment practices and inclusive recruitment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills across senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute annual talent acquisition strategies aligned with business priorities.
• Lead recruitment efforts for highly specialized technical roles.
• Improve offer acceptance through transparent candidate experience.
• Partner with leaders on interviewing, evaluation, and onboarding.
• Strengthen diverse talent pipelines and monitor progress.
• Reduce time-to-fill using effective sourcing and workforce planning.
• Ensure compliant, confidential, fair hiring practices.
• Collaborate with People Leadership and the practice teams.

Skills

Full-cycle recruitment

Executive partnership

Technical recruitment

Recruiting analytics

Inclusion & confidentiality

Communication skills

Tools

ATS

LinkedIn Recruiter

Job description

You know how to hire people who will do hard technical work well, and you treat that craft with the same integrity our clients expect of the science. This firm solves complex health, environmental, and natural resource problems through multidisciplinary teams. Your work decides whether those teams have the scientists, engineers, and project leaders to deliver accurate, defensible work on time. You will be a trusted advisor to principals and practice leaders, not an order-taker for open reqs.

Performance Objectives

• Develop and execute annual talent acquisition strategies in collaboration with practice leaders to ensure critical science, engineering, and project management positions are filled in alignment with business priorities and client delivery timelines.
• Lead recruitment efforts for highly specialized and difficult-to-fill positions across investigation, remediation, hydrogeology, risk assessment, and emerging contaminants, delivering qualified candidate slates that meet technical and organizational requirements.
• Improve offer acceptance rates by creating a positive candidate experience through transparent communication, timely feedback, and a clear understanding of the organization's work and expectations.
• Partner with and advise principals, practice leaders, and hiring managers on effective interviewing, candidate evaluation, hiring decisions, and onboarding to ensure new employees become productive within their first 90 days.
• Strengthen diverse talent pipelines for technical, professional, and leadership positions while tracking measurable progress toward workforce diversity objectives.
• Reduce time-to-fill for high-priority positions by using effective sourcing strategies and monitoring recruiting performance, including quality of hire, sourcing effectiveness, and workforce planning gaps.
• Ensure recruiting practices align with employment regulations, confidentiality requirements, and fair and consistent hiring standards while maintaining the firm's professional reputation.
• Work closely with principals, practice leaders, and a collaborative people team within a science and engineering consulting organization.
• This is a full-time opportunity with in-office, hybrid, or remote work arrangements depending on the candidate's location and organizational requirements.
• Utilize the company's applicant tracking system (ATS), approved recruiting and sourcing resources, and hiring manager partnerships to support talent acquisition activities.
• Collaborate with business leaders to define position requirements, establish hiring priorities, and develop effective recruitment strategies.
• Report directly to People Leadership while serving as a strategic talent acquisition partner and trusted advisor to leaders responsible for business development and project execution.

Essential Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing full-cycle recruitment, preferably within professional services, engineering, environmental consulting, scientific, or other specialized technical industries.
• Demonstrated success partnering with senior technical and business leaders to develop workforce plans and execute strategic hiring initiatives beyond traditional recruiting activities.
• Ability to evaluate and recruit scientists, engineers, project managers, and other technical professionals based on their technical expertise, decision-making capabilities, communication skills, and ability to work directly with clients.
• Strong understanding of recruiting analytics, talent market trends, sourcing strategies, and key performance indicators, with the ability to use data to improve hiring outcomes.
• Knowledge of fair employment practices, inclusive recruitment strategies, confidentiality, and consistent candidate evaluation processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to build credibility and establish productive relationships with senior leaders, technical experts, and candidates at all levels.

Why Join This Organization?

• People-Focused Culture: Join an organization that values its employees, professional development, diversity, and workplace culture alongside technical excellence.
• Meaningful Work: Recruit professionals who contribute to important projects involving environmental site investigations, remediation, natural resources, public health, and sustainability.
• Strategic Leadership Opportunity: Work alongside experienced principals and practice leaders to strengthen existing recruiting capabilities and establish scalable talent acquisition processes.
• Competitive Benefits: Receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance, retirement plan matching, life and disability coverage, paid time off, and company holidays.
• Additional Compensation: Opportunity to earn a discretionary bonus based on overall firm performance.
• Inclusive Hiring Philosophy: Candidates are encouraged to apply even if they do not meet every listed qualification. The organization values diverse perspectives, relevant experience, and strong recruiting expertise.

Make an Impact

If you are passionate about building high-performing teams and connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities, this is an opportunity to make a lasting impact.

We are looking for a strategic recruiting professional who can demonstrate previous talent acquisition successes, improve hiring processes, strengthen candidate pipelines, and measure the effectiveness of recruitment initiatives.