About the Role
Lead Emerald’s talent acquisition function, driving hiring strategies to attract exceptional talent across events, media, sales, and corporate teams. Partner with hiring managers and remain hands-on in recruiting execution. This role requires a strong recruiter with demonstrated success hiring sales and revenue-generating talent, focusing on building talent pipelines, using data to improve hiring outcomes, and ensuring an exceptional candidate experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead full-cycle recruiting for key positions while overseeing recruiting delivery across the broader organization.
- Partner with hiring managers to understand talent needs and develop effective recruiting strategies.
- Develop proactive sourcing strategies to attract high-performing talent, with a strong focus on sales and revenue-generating roles.
- Manage requisition prioritization, pipeline health, hiring timelines, and offer strategy.
- Drive consistency and efficiency across the hiring process while maintaining a strong candidate experience.
- Use recruiting data and analytics to identify trends, improve hiring outcomes, and measure recruiting performance.
- Continuously optimize recruiting workflows, ATS utilization, and reporting capabilities.
- Build strong relationships with hiring managers and leaders throughout the hiring process.
- Train and support hiring managers on structured interviewing, candidate assessment, and recruiting best practices.
- Partner with People & Culture and Marketing to support employer branding and talent marketing initiatives.
- Lead recruiting projects and process improvements that increase efficiency and scalability.
- Ensure hiring practices are compliant, equitable, and aligned with Emerald’s commitment to inclusion and belonging.
Requirements
- 4+ years of recruiting experience.
- Demonstrated success recruiting sales and revenue-generating talent.
- Experience managing full-cycle recruiting and a high volume of open positions.
- Strong sourcing skills and experience building candidate pipelines in competitive talent markets.
- A data-driven approach with experience using recruiting metrics to measure and improve results.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
- Experience with ATS platforms and recruiting technology.
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment and balance multiple hiring priorities.
- Please include a brief cover letter highlighting your recruiting results and experience.
- The volume and types of roles you have recruited for.
- Your experience recruiting sales and revenue-generating talent.
- Your time-to-hire results and any improvements you have driven.
- Recruiting metrics you have owned or influenced, such as offer acceptance, pipeline conversion, or hiring volume.
- An example of a recruiting challenge you solved and the measurable outcome.
Skills
- Recruiting
- Talent Acquisition
- Sales Recruiting
- Revenue-Generating Talent Recruiting
- Full-Cycle Recruiting
- Sourcing
- Pipeline Building
- Data Analysis
- ATS Platforms
- Recruiting Technology
- Stakeholder Management
- Communication
- Influencing
- Employer Branding
- Talent Marketing
- Project Management
- Process Improvement
Location
- New York City area (for higher end of salary range)
Work Type
- Hybrid (3 days per week in New York office for higher end of salary range)
- Flexible working locations
Experience Level
- 4+ years of recruiting experience
Education Level
- Most roles don't require college degrees
Salary/Compensations
- $90,000-115,000
Benefits
- Unlimited vacation for exempt employees
- Flexible working locations
- 401(k) plan with a company match
- Medical/dental/vision coverage with inclusive provisions including transgender services and fertility benefits
- Parental and caregiver leave
- Dependent benefits
- Commuter benefits
- FSA benefits
- Professional development programs like Toastmasters
- Mental wellness tools
About the Company
- At Emerald, we strive to foster a diverse and inclusive community.
- We actively recruit and champion candidates who bring new perspectives from varied professional backgrounds and experiences.
- We are intentional about ensuring a positive hiring experience for everyone.
- Our job postings don’t contain experience inflation, and most don’t require college degrees.
- Instead, they’re crafted to focus on outcomes and transferable experiences that are assessed in a structured interview process carried out by trained hiring teams.
Equal Opportunity
- Emerald is committed to inclusion and belonging.
- Hiring practices are equitable.
