Director, Talent Attraction
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Responsibilities
- Develop and own end-to-end talent attraction strategy - utilizing competitive intel, market research, targeted sourcing, and activations to accelerate top-of-funnel pipeline.
- Lead and grow a team of Recruiting Managers, sourcers/Talent Attraction Partners, and talent brand specialists - setting goals, driving accountability, and coaching for performance.
- Partner with Talent Delivery leadership and cross-functional recruiting teams to forecast hiring needs and deliver against quarterly/annual hiring targets, including proactive pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill roles.
- Use data and market intelligence to identify talent trends, competitive benchmarking, sourcing channel effectiveness, and to forecast and manage team capacity against shifting headcount demand.
- Deliver and analyze reporting on pipeline health, funnel metrics, time-to-fill, and source-of-hire, driving transparency for senior leadership.
- Champion AI fluency across the organization - identifying opportunities to leverage AI and agents within sourcing, driving adoption and experimentation, and measuring impact on productivity, quality, and pipeline outcomes.Champion AI fluency across the organization - identifying opportunities to leverage AI and agents within sourcing, driving adoption and experimentation, and measuring impact on productivity, quality, and pipeline outcomes.
- Build a strong sense of team unity and engagement, developing recruiter capability (business acumen, partnering, and influencing skills) and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and self-learning.
- Continuously test and implement new sourcing techniques, tools, and approaches - including emerging technologies like AI and agents - to drive collective team success.
- Partner with senior recruiting leadership on global sourcing and recruiting initiatives and programs.
- 8-10+ years of experience in talent acquisition, sourcing, or recruitment, including 3-5+ years in a people-leadership role (experience leading people managers preferred).
- Proven track record building and scaling talent attraction/sourcing strategies in a high-growth or enterprise environment.
- Strong knowledge of employer branding, talent marketing, and sourcing technology (LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS/CRM platforms, etc.), including emerging AI/agent-based sourcing tools.
- Data-driven mindset with demonstrated ability to analyze and leverage data to forecast, report to senior leaders, and drive effective recruiting strategy.
- Demonstrated AI fluency and curiosity, with experience applying AI to sourcing workflows, productivity, talent intelligence, or candidate engagement and the ability to lead teams through AI-enabled transformation.
- Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills; comfortable partnering with senior executives across functions.
- Demonstrated success building strong internal partnerships to gain support and achieve cross-functional results.
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Responsibilities
Lead the AMER talent attraction strategy, including employer branding, sourcing, talent pipelines, and the development of a high-performing recruiting and sourcing organization. Partner with business and recruiting leaders to forecast hiring needs, use data to improve pipeline outcomes and team capacity, and drive adoption of AI-enabled sourcing practices.
Requirements
Requires 8–10+ years of talent acquisition, sourcing, or recruitment experience, including 3–5+ years in people leadership, preferably leading people managers. Candidates should have experience scaling talent attraction strategies, strong recruiting technology and analytics knowledge, demonstrated AI fluency, and excellent executive partnership, communication, and influencing skills.
Skills
- Talent Acquisition Strategy
- Sourcing Strategy
- Employer Branding
- Talent Marketing
- People Leadership
- Recruiting Team Development
- Workforce Planning
- Talent Pipeline Development
- Market Research
- Competitive Intelligence
- Recruiting Analytics
- Stakeholder Management
- Influencing
- AI-Enabled Sourcing
- Sourcing Technology
- Cross-Functional Partnership
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Categories
- Human Resources
- Management & Leadership
- Marketing
- Data & Analytics
- Technology
Keywords
- Talent Attraction
- Talent Acquisition
- Sourcing
- Employer Branding
- Talent Marketing
- Talent Pipelining
- Recruiting Managers
- Talent Attraction Partners
- Talent Delivery
- Market Research
- Competitive Intelligence
- Hiring Forecasts
- Headcount Planning
- Pipeline Health
- Funnel Metrics
- Time-to-Fill
- Source-of-Hire
- AI
- AI Agents
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- ATS
- CRM Platforms
- Talent Intelligence
- Candidate Engagement
- Recruiting Analytics
- Sourcing Technology