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About the Role

This role leads the combined organization’s Talent Acquisition function, driving hiring strategies that attract exceptional talent across events, media, sales, centers of excellence, and corporate teams. You will serve as a trusted advisor to leaders, balancing strategic workforce planning with hands-on recruiting execution, leading a team, optimizing processes, leveraging data, and ensuring a positive candidate experience. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment and is passionate about building diverse, high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

Partner with business leaders to develop proactive hiring strategies aligned with company growth objectives and evolving workforce needs.
Serve as a strategic advisor on talent market trends, organizational design, and workforce planning.
Build and maintain pipelines for critical, niche, and leadership roles, focusing on high-impact revenue-generating positions.
Develop innovative sourcing strategies to attract top talent in competitive markets.
Lead full-cycle recruiting efforts for key and executive-level positions, overseeing recruiting delivery across the organization.
Drive consistency and efficiency across the hiring process, ensuring timely execution and high-quality candidate experience.
Manage requisition prioritization, pipeline health, hiring timelines, and offer strategy.
Continuously optimize recruiting workflows, ATS utilization, and reporting capabilities.
Ensure all hiring practices are compliant, equitable, and aligned with the company's commitment to inclusion and belonging.
Lead, coach, and develop a team of recruiters, fostering accountability, collaboration, and professional growth.
Establish team goals, track performance metrics, and implement best practices.
Create an inclusive, high-performing team culture.
Champion continuous learning and development to elevate recruiting capabilities.
Build strong relationships with hiring managers and senior leaders.
Consult on organizational talent needs, job design, interview strategy, and compensation alignment.
Train leaders and interview teams on structured interviewing, candidate assessment, and talent acquisition best practices.
Use data and market intelligence to influence hiring decisions and improve business outcomes.
Champion a world-class candidate experience that reflects the company's culture, values, and commitment to belonging.
Strengthen the company's employer brand and talent marketing strategy.
Leverage creative sourcing channels, including LinkedIn Recruiter, employee referrals, industry networks, events, and community partnerships.
Position the organization as an employer of choice within the events, media, and B2B industries.
Track, analyze, and communicate recruiting metrics including time-to-fill, quality of hire, source effectiveness, diversity outcomes, and hiring manager satisfaction.
Use data-driven insights to identify trends, inform strategy, and drive continuous improvement.
Stay current on talent acquisition best practices, emerging technologies, and labor market trends.
Lead recruiting projects and process enhancements that improve scalability, efficiency, and hiring outcomes.

Requirements

8-10+ years of recruiting experience including international hiring.
4+ years leading or mentoring recruiting teams.
Experience within B2B organizations, particularly in events, media, marketing services, SaaS, or adjacent industries.
Proven success managing full-cycle recruiting across multiple functions and levels, including senior leadership searches.
Strong experience recruiting sales and revenue-generating talent in a competitive environment.
Demonstrated success building and scaling recruiting processes, programs, and teams.
Experience supporting domestic and international hiring initiatives.
Strong stakeholder management, consulting, and influencing skills.
Data-driven approach with experience leveraging recruiting analytics and reporting to drive results.
Experience with ATS platforms and recruiting technologies.
Passion for creating equitable hiring practices and fostering inclusive teams.
Employer branding, talent marketing, or recruitment marketing experience (preferred).
Experience supporting organizations undergoing growth, transformation, or acquisition activity (preferred).
Familiarity recruiting across sales, event operations, media, marketing, and corporate functions (preferred).

Skills

Talent Acquisition
Workforce Planning
Recruiting Operations
Team Leadership
Business Partnership
Stakeholder Management
Employer Branding
Candidate Experience
Analytics
Continuous Improvement
Full-cycle recruiting
Sourcing strategies
ATS platforms
Recruiting technologies
LinkedIn Recruiter
Employee referrals
Industry networks
Community partnerships

Location

Flexible working locations

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

8-10+ years of recruiting experience
4+ years leading or mentoring recruiting teams

Salary/Compensations

$135,000 to $150,000 (bonus eligible)

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

Emerald and Questex are two world-class events organizations undergoing an integration.
The organization operates within the events, media, and B2B industries.