About the Role
The Director of Recruitment Delivery leads ICON's centralized recruiting Center of Excellence, responsible for the execution of recruitment strategies. This role owns the capability and people, ensuring speed, quality, cost, and consistency of delivery as ICON scales.
Responsibilities
- Build, scale, and flex a blended pool of contract and permanent recruiters and sourcers, staffing them onto TA Partner–led searches based on demand and priority.
- Allocate recruiter/sourcer capacity across business units in partnership with TA Partners.
- Own the make-vs-buy decision on recruiting labor and manage agency/contract/RPO partnerships and the contingent recruiting budget.
- Set delivery SLAs and hold the team accountable.
- Own recruiter and sourcer training, onboarding, certification, and ongoing capability development.
- Standardize the execution playbook for consistent delivery.
- Define the standard search plan, including target company maps, outreach content, and cadence.
- Own the centralized recruiting platform and tooling, including selection, licensing, adoption, governance, and ROI.
- Own the core recruiting skillset executed by the COE: sourcing technique, outreach, screening, and pipeline management.
- Define recruiting data hygiene, reporting, and metrics for funnel health, time-to-fill, quality-of-hire, cost-per-hire, and conversion.
- Ensure search plans are captured centrally for continuous improvement.
- Own the core candidate and applicant experience end to end, including communication standards, interview logistics, and process compliance.
- Partner with employer brand for a consistent candidate journey.
- Build, lead, coach, and develop the recruiting team, fostering a performance and service culture.
- Advise People leadership on hiring capacity, forecasting, and recruiting investment.
Requirements
- 10+ years in talent acquisition/recruiting, including 5+ years leading recruiting teams or equivalent leadership of research, search operations, or delivery functions within retained or executive search.
- Proven experience building and scaling a recruiting function or COE, including blended contract/perm delivery and a staffing/deployment model.
- Deep, hands-on fluency with LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS/CRM, and modern sourcing and AI tools.
- Strong recruiting analytics and process design skills.
- Track record of owning a recruiting budget and vendor/agency relationships.
- Experience recruiting across technical, operations, and skilled-trade populations in a high-growth environment.
Skills
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- ATS/CRM
- Sourcing platforms
- AI tools
- Recruiting analytics
- Process design
- Vendor management
- Agency management
- RPO management
- Budget management
- Candidate experience management
- Employer branding partnership
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Director
- 10+ years in talent acquisition/recruiting
- 5+ years leading recruiting teams
About the Company
- ICON's People & Places organization finds, grows, and supports the talent behind ICON's robotics, software, construction, corporate, and government teams.
- ICON builds robotic systems that construct multi-story buildings.
- Commercially launched Titan, our multi-story robotic construction platform, in March 2026.
- Raised more than $550M.
- Hold more than $360M in government contracts across the Army, Air Force, DARPA, and NASA.
Equal Opportunity
- ICON is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an innovative, inclusive, diverse and discrimination-free work environment.
- Employment with ICON is based on merit, competence, and qualifications.
- It is our policy to administer all personnel actions, including recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other legally protected classification in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.
- Consistent with the obligations of these laws, ICON will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
- As a federal government contractor, the Company maintains an affirmative action program which furthers its commitment and complies with recordkeeping and reporting requirements under certain federal civil rights laws and regulations, including Executive Order 11246, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (as amended) and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (as amended).
- Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit candidates through this application.
- ICON does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency submissions for candidates and will not pay fees to any third-party agency without a prior agreement with ICON.
- As part of our compliance with these obligations, the Company invites you to voluntarily self-identify as set forth below.
- Provision of such information is entirely voluntary and a decision to provide or not provide such information will not have any effect on your employment or subject you to any adverse treatment.
- Any and all information provided will be considered confidential, will be kept separate from your application and/or personnel file, and will only be used in accordance with applicable laws, orders and regulations, including those that require the information to be summarized and reported to the federal government for civil rights enforcement purposes.
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