Talent Development Operations

O'Melveny & Myers LLP; Newport Beach (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

O'Melveny & Myers LLP in the United States seeks a Talent Development Operations professional to provide centralized operational support for attorney recruitment, onboarding, development, wellbeing, engagement, and retention across offices.

You will manage full-cycle recruiting processes, data reporting, systems administration, and cross-office coordination, partnering with Talent Development and HR to drive scalable, efficient workflows and strong candidate pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Significant experience in attorney recruiting, preferably within a law firm or professional services.
• Experience managing full-cycle lateral attorney recruitment.
• Strong knowledge of the legal recruiting market, including search firm relationships.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills with attorneys, leadership, candidates, and recruiters.
• Strong project management, organizational, and follow-up skills with multiple searches.
• Analytical mindset with experience tracking recruiting metrics.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment; proficiency with ATS and MS Office.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leadership to anticipate and assess hiring needs for lateral associates and counsel.
• Translate needs into prioritized search plans and hire approvals.
• Manage full-cycle lateral attorney recruiting for approved searches.
• Draft postings, source and screen candidates, coordinate interviews and offers.
• Develop strong candidate pipelines through referrals, firms, and direct sourcing.
• Coordinate relationships with search firms and set expectations for quality and responsiveness.
• Communicate priorities to search firms and maintain accurate candidate records.
• Review materials, facilitate interviews, and evaluate feedback.
• Provide market intelligence and hiring recommendations to firm leadership.
• Support due diligence, conflicts checks, and offer documentation.
• Partner on interview scheduling, onboarding, orientation, and integration.
• Collaborate with Talent Development, HR, Conflicts, and others to ensure a seamless process.

Skills

Recruiting experience

Attention to detail

Communication

Project management

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Applicant tracking systems

Microsoft Office

Job description

It's more than what you do: it's how you do it. That's why O'Melveny is counsel of choice to an ever-expanding list of market leaders. Opportunity at O'Melveny means working alongside dynamic and team-oriented colleagues on evolving legal and business issues and opportunities for prominent clients around the world. It's a place to build a rewarding career by tackling new challenges; being appreciated, included, and supported; and creating lasting connections.

With approximately 850 lawyers on three continents, more than 80 practice and industry service areas, and strong cultural ties to its 17 locations, O'Melveny is a global law firm with a local feel. At our core, you'll find a dedication to excellence, a drive to lead and innovate, and a deep sense of civic responsibility.

So, tell us. What do you want to achieve? Visit us at www.omm.com; learn more in our firm at-a-glance; and find us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

O'Melveny has an immediate opening for a Talent Development Operations position that can be based in any of our US offices.

Reporting to the Director of Talent Development Operations and collaborating across Talent Development, Human Resources, and other firm teams, this role will provide centralized operational support for attorney and business professional recruitment, onboarding, development, wellbeing, engagement, and retention. This work includes recruiting and professional development processes, programs and events, data and reporting, systems administration, and cross-office coordination.

The team will evaluate workflows, identify opportunities for centralization, and create scalable templates, tracking systems, reporting tools, and other practical solutions. This work will improve consistency and efficiency, strengthen recruiting and retention efforts, and give local teams greater capacity to advance talent development priorities. The successful candidate will bring strong attention to detail, sound judgment, responsiveness, technical aptitude, and an inclusive, service-oriented approach.

The salary range for this role is $60,000 - $80,000 and represents the firm's good faith minimum and maximum range for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation offered to a candidate will be dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, the candidate's experience, qualifications, and location.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Recruiting Strategy, Onboarding, and Integration

• Partner with the Director of Attorney Recruiting, hiring partners, office heads, and practice and department leadership to anticipate and assess lateral associate, counsel, and judicial clerk hiring needs.
• Assess and translate identified hiring needs into prioritized search plans and partner with practice group leaders and the Professional Development team to prepare hiring requests for leadership approval.
• Manage the full-cycle lateral attorney recruiting process for each approved lateral search, including the development and drafting of hiring requests.
• Draft job postings, lead candidate sourcing and screening, coordinate interviews and candidate communications, and manage offer development, negotiation, acceptance, and onboarding.
• Develop and maintain strong candidate pipelines through attorney referrals, search-firm relationships, direct sourcing, and other appropriate recruiting channels.
• Cultivate and manage productive relationships with attorney search firms, establishing clear expectations for candidate quality, responsiveness, and alignment with the Firm's hiring needs.
• Communicate hiring priorities to search firms, evaluate candidate submissions, monitor search activity, and maintain accurate candidate records in the applicant tracking system.
• Review candidate materials, assess qualifications, facilitate interviews, and coordinate the collection and evaluation of interview feedback.
• Provide market intelligence, candidate and pipeline insights, competitive trends, and practical hiring recommendations to Firm leadership.
• Support candidate due diligence processes and pre-arrival requirements, including conflicts and background checks and the preparation of offer documentation.
• Partner with local recruiting team members on interview scheduling, onboarding, orientation, and long-term integration, ensuring a smooth transition for new hires.
• Collaborate with internal business functions, including Professional Development and Talent Development Operations, Conflicts and Human Resources, to deliver a seamless hiring and onboarding process.
• Serve as a trusted resource and primary point of contact for candidates and O'Melveny attorneys throughout the recruiting and hiring process.

Knowledge, Skills, And Experience

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Significant experience in attorney recruiting, preferably within a law firm or professional services environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing full-cycle lateral attorney recruitment, ideally for associate- and counsel-level hiring.
• Strong knowledge of the legal recruiting market, including search firm relationships and lateral hiring practices.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work effectively with attorneys, senior leadership, candidates, and external recruiters.
• Strong project management, organizational, and follow-up skills, with the ability to manage multiple searches and competing priorities simultaneously.
• Analytical mindset with experience tracking recruiting metrics and using data to inform hiring strategies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• High level of professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment.Proficiency with applicant tracking systems and Microsoft Office applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting multi-office attorney recruiting in an Am Law or similarly sophisticated legal environment.
• Familiarity with attorney onboarding, integration, and due diligence processes, including conflicts and background checks.

We offer an excellent salary and benefits package.

EOE M/F/D/V.