Talent Acquisition Manager
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Talent Acquisition Manager leading Talent Acquisition Partners for Tailscale, a secure networking software company. Driving recruiting strategy, executive hiring, data-informed performance, and business-leader advising.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Talent Acquisition Partners through expectations, feedback, career development, and performance management
- Strengthen team capabilities in recruiting strategy, stakeholder management, candidate assessment, influencing, negotiation, and closing
- Foster accountability, collaboration, inclusion, strong judgment, and continuous improvement
- Adapt team priorities, coverage, and ways of working as business and hiring needs evolve
- Translate business priorities and hiring plans into recruiting strategies, team priorities, and execution plans
- Ensure consistent recruiting execution from intake and search strategy through candidate assessment, offer, and close
- Review search performance, pipeline health, hiring velocity, and team capacity to identify risks and drive accountability
- Provide hands-on support for complex, high-priority, or executive searches
- Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and advise on hiring priorities, talent markets, workforce needs, and recruiting strategy
- Help leaders navigate talent availability, hiring tradeoffs, timelines, and market realities
- Identify hiring risks and develop solutions with Talent Acquisition Partners and business leaders
- Create accountability for effective hiring practices, timely decisions, interview quality, and candidate experience
- Use recruiting data, market intelligence, pipeline, funnel, hiring velocity, capacity, and market data to guide decisions
- Translate recruiting performance and talent market insights into actionable recommendations
- Partner with Talent Acquisition Operations on reporting and analytics
- Collaborate with Sourcing, Talent Acquisition Operations, and TA leadership to align strategies, resources, and priorities
- Improve recruiting programs, tools, workflows, and AI-enabled practices through feedback
- Contribute to Talent Acquisition initiatives that improve candidate experience, team effectiveness, and scalability
Requirements:
- 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience supporting technical and/or business organizations in high-growth technology environments
- 2–5+ years leading and developing recruiting teams
- Demonstrated success coaching experienced Talent Acquisition Partners, setting expectations, managing performance, and building high-performing teams
- Proven ability to partner with senior business leaders as a trusted advisor and influence hiring strategies and decisions
- Strong recruiting expertise and business acumen
- Ability to translate organizational priorities and hiring plans into recruiting strategies and team execution
- Strong analytical skills and comfort using recruiting data, market intelligence, and performance metrics
- Ability to lead through ambiguity, balance strategic priorities with hands-on leadership, and adapt team focus
- Strong communication, coaching, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience partnering across Sourcing, Talent Acquisition Operations, and other cross-functional teams
- Nice to have: experience leading recruiting across Engineering, Product, Design, GTM, and/or G&A
- Nice to have: experience scaling recruiting and organizational growth within a high-growth technology company
- Nice to have: experience partnering with dedicated Sourcing and Talent Acquisition Operations teams
- Nice to have: experience hiring globally across North America, EMEA, and/or APAC
- Nice to have: track record of developing strong recruiters into trusted business advisors
Benefits:
- An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self
- Competitive total compensation package including base salary, equity incentive plan, and variable commission for quota-based roles
- Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period, including health, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family
- Remote-first flexibility, virtual and in-person social events, and corporate co-working program
- Employer-funded retirement contributions matching employee contributions dollar-for-dollar, up to 0.75% of eligible compensation annually
- Annual company retreat and team off-sites
- $1500 USD annually for professional development, plus mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities
- Flexible paid time off program
- Company-owned laptop choice of Mac or PC
- Monthly home internet reimbursement
- $500 USD home office workstation customization allowance
- Paid parental leave top-ups: 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Accessible and inclusive hiring process with accommodations available
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