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About the Role
Guardian is seeking a strategic, experienced recruiter to join our Talent Acquisition team. This role supports Guardian’s growth strategy by delivering high-impact recruiting outcomes across business groups. The position works closely with senior leaders, Talent Partners, and Centers of Expertise to shape hiring strategies aligned to business priorities, workforce plans, capability needs, and evolving labor-market conditions. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, this role blends deep recruiting expertise, data-driven insight, and modern recruiting technologies to attract, assess, and close top talent—while delivering an exceptional, human-centered candidate experience and serving as a trusted advisor in complex or ambiguous hiring situations.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders, providing consultative guidance on role design, talent availability, competitive landscapes, and hiring tradeoffs.
- Partner with HR and business leaders to translate workforce plans, capability gaps, and future skill needs into actionable recruiting strategies.
- Lead comprehensive intake and needs-analysis conversations to define success profiles, sourcing strategies, and assessment approaches.
- Own full-cycle recruiting for a portfolio of roles, from intake through offer acceptance and onboarding partnership.
- Deliver high-touch, personalized candidate engagement for critical and senior-level searches.
- Partner with Compensation and Talent Partners to develop market-competitive, equitable offer packages and successfully close top talent.
- Design and execute sourcing strategies using direct outreach, referrals, talent communities, social platforms, and AI-enabled recruiting tools.
- Leverage labor-market insights to advise stakeholders on emerging skills, geographic considerations, and workforce trends.
- Apply skills-based hiring methodologies to define success profiles, assess talent against role-critical capabilities, and support fair, consistent hiring decisions.
- Build and maintain strong internal and external talent networks to support both immediate and future hiring needs.
- Leverage AI-enabled recruiting tools to streamline workflows, enhance sourcing effectiveness, and improve overall recruitment efficiency.
- Translate recruiting metrics into clear, actionable insights for business and HR leaders.
- Ensure well-adapted use of Workday Recruiting and Guardian’s recruitment platforms, maintaining data integrity, compliance, and reporting standards.
- Identify opportunities to test, adopt, and improve recruiting technologies, workflows, and candidate engagement practices based on data, user feedback, and business outcomes.
- Partner cross-functionally with HR partners, COEs, and external vendors, including search firms and other external partners where applicable.
- Manage vendor relationships to ensure accountability, quality, and alignment with Guardian standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
- 7+ years of experience in professional and/or executive-level recruiting.
- Experience recruiting across multiple functions, business units, and geographies in corporate recruiting and/or search firm environments.
- Proficiency using AI-enabled recruiting tools and talent data to generate insights, improve sourcing and workflow efficiency, and support informed, equitable hiring decisions.
- Strong relationship-building, communication, negotiation, and closing skills with excellent judgment and business acumen.
- High proficiency with Applicant Tracking Systems.
- Insurance Industry/Asset Management experience preferred.
- Experience with Workday Recruiting.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship/support now or at any time in the future.
Skills
- AI-enabled recruiting tools
- Talent data analysis
- Relationship-building
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Closing skills
- Business acumen
- Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
- Workday Recruiting
Location
- Hudson Yards, NYC
- Stamford CT
- Pittsfield MA
- Boston, MA
- Bethlehem, PA
- Holmdel NJ
Work Type
- Hybrid
- 2 days WFH
Experience Level
- 7+ years of experience in professional and/or executive-level recruiting
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
Salary/Compensations
- $86,210.00 - $141,635.00
Benefits
- Support and flexibility to achieve professional and personal goals
- Skill-building opportunities
- Leadership development opportunities
- Philanthropic opportunities
- Contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources
About the Company
- Guardian is a culture where “We Do the Right Thing” and “We Courageously Shape Our Future Together”.
- At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals.
- Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.
- As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well-being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues.
Equal Opportunity
- Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
- Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.
- Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship.
- Guardian may use artificial intelligence tools (“AI Tools") to automate the sorting and filtering of information provided by applicants as part of its preliminary screening.
- All hiring decisions will be made by Guardian colleagues.
- Applicants will have the choice of opting out of Guardian’s use of AI Tools during the job application process.
- Guardian will retain your applicant materials and resume and all information therefrom in accordance with Guardian’s document retention policy.