Talent Acquisition Technology Lead

Morningstar; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 95,275 - 139,742; Full time

Job summary

Morningstar is seeking a Lead Technical Recruiter to own recruiting outcomes for our engineering, AI/ML, data science, and product roles across North America.

This senior individual-contributor role requires hands-on searches, setting hiring standards, and coaching other recruiters to elevate the entire team while partnering with business and HR leaders to turn technical requirements into effective search strategies.

Qualifications

• 7 or more years of recruiting experience, including mentoring or coaching other recruiters.
• Proven track record owning complex or senior searches with measurable outcomes.
• Deep understanding of technical hiring across AI/ML, engineering, and product.
• Ability to set standards and raise the capability of the recruiters around you — people grow under your coaching.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders with market insight and data.
• Fluent designing and coaching AI-assisted recruiting workflows.
• Solid working knowledge of employment law, EEO, and OFCCP as applied to talent acquisition.

Responsibilities

• Own recruiting outcomes for Morningstar's technical roles across North America — quality of hire, speed, and candidate experience.
• Define what good looks like across intake, sourcing, selection, and closing, and mentor recruiters against a capability model with hands-on feedback that grows true advisors.
• Take on the most complex and senior searches in your area, bringing evidence, judgment, and a clear point of view to every stage.
• Bring genuine technical fluency across AI/ML, engineering, and product — enough to hold credible conversations, assess real depth (not keywords), and partner with engineering, data science, and product leaders to turn technical requirements into search strategy and market maps.
• Serve as the senior TA voice for your domain with business and HR leaders, bringing market intelligence and a clear point of view.
• Make structured, fair, evidence-based selection the standard across your domain, and facilitate calibrated debriefs.
• Own pipeline health for your domain — forecasting risk, intervening early, and turning recruiting data into insight for stakeholders and TA leadership.
• Design and champion AI-assisted recruiting workflows, driving adoption while keeping their use responsible and compliant.
• Contribute to playbooks, training, and process improvements that scale beyond your own searches.
• Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors.
• Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested.

Skills

Recruiting experience

Mentoring recruiters

Stakeholder influence

AI-assisted recruiting workflows

Technical hiring across AI/ML/engineer

Communication with leadership

Tools

Workday

Paradox

Hired Score

Job description

About Morningstar

Good investing decisions start with good information. Morningstar builds the research, data, and technology that help individual investors, financial advisors, and institutions make sense of markets. We are independent by design — our data and opinions answer to evidence, not to outside influence. That independence makes us a force for good in the markets, bringing transparency and unbiased information to the people who rely on us.

About Morningstar

Good investing decisions start with good information. Morningstar builds the research, data, and technology that help individual investors, financial advisors, and institutions make sense of markets. We are independent by design — our data and opinions answer to evidence, not to outside influence. That independence makes us a force for good in the markets, bringing transparency and unbiased information to the people who rely on us.

We can only empower investors if our people feel empowered — and that starts with how we hire. Talent Acquisition brings in the people who move that work forward, and for many of them it is their first experience of Morningstar.

About The Role

As a Lead Technical Recruiter, you own recruiting outcomes for Morningstar's technical hiring across North America — engineering, AI/ML, data science, and product — and you set the standard for what great hiring looks like.

This is a senior individual-contributor role: you run the most complex searches yourself and raise the bar for the recruiters around you through example and expertise, not direct reports.

Recruiting here runs the way Morningstar's research does — on evidence, independence, and a genuine point of view, not order-taking.

Your job is to make that the daily standard for the recruiters around you.

What You'll Do

• Own recruiting outcomes for Morningstar's technical roles across North America — quality of hire, speed, and candidate experience.
• Define what good looks like across intake, sourcing, selection, and closing, and mentor recruiters against a capability model with hands-on feedback that grows true advisors.
• Take on the most complex and senior searches in your area, bringing evidence, judgment, and a clear point of view to every stage.
• Bring genuine technical fluency across AI/ML, engineering, and product — enough to hold credible conversations, assess real depth (not keywords), and partner with engineering, data science, and product leaders to turn technical requirements into search strategy and market maps.
• Serve as the senior TA voice for your domain with business and HR leaders, bringing market intelligence and a clear point of view.
• Make structured, fair, evidence-based selection the standard across your domain, and facilitate calibrated debriefs.
• Own pipeline health for your domain — forecasting risk, intervening early, and turning recruiting data into insight for stakeholders and TA leadership.
• Design and champion AI-assisted recruiting workflows, driving adoption while keeping their use responsible and compliant.
• Contribute to playbooks, training, and process improvements that scale beyond your own searches.
• Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors.
• Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested.

Required Qualifications

• 7 or more years of recruiting experience, including time spent mentoring or coaching other recruiters
• Personal track record owning complex or senior searches with strong, measurable outcomes
• Deep understanding of technical hiring across AI/ML, engineering, and product — you can scope technical roles credibly and speak the language of the teams you hire for.
• Demonstrated ability to set standards and raise the capability of the recruiters around you — people grow under your coaching
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders with market insight and data
• Fluent designing and coaching AI-assisted recruiting workflows
• Solid working knowledge of employment law, EEO, and OFCCP as applied to talent acquisition

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Workday, Paradox and Hired Score
• Track record building or improving a recruiting program, tool, or training curriculum

Compensation And Benefits

At Morningstar we believe people are at their best when they are at their healthiest. That’s why we champion your wellness through a wide range of programs that support all stages of your personal and professional life. Here are some examples of the offerings we provide:

• Financial Health
  • 100% 401k match up to 6% of salary
  • Stock Ownership Potential
  • Company provided life insurance - 1x salary + commission
• Physical Health
  • Comprehensive health benefits (medical/dental/vision) including potential premium discounts and company-provided HSA contributions (up to $500-$2,000 annually) for specific plans and coverages
  • Additional medical Wellness Incentives - up to $300-$600 annual
  • Company-provided long- and short-term disability insurance
• Emotional Health
  • Trust-Based Time Off
  • 6-week Paid Sabbatical Program
  • 6-Week Paid Family Caregiving Leave
  • Competitive 8-24 Week Paid Parental Leave
  • Adoption Assistance
  • Leadership Coaching & Formal Mentorship Opportunities
  • Annual Flex Stipend - $1000 annually to cover personal education & well-being expenses
  • Tuition Reimbursement
• Social Health
  • Charitable Matching Gifts program
  • Dollars for Doers volunteer program
  • Paid volunteering days
  • 15+ Employee Resource & Affinity Groups

Total Cash Compensation Range

$95,275.00-139,741.66

Inclusive of annual base salary and target incentive

Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.

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