Director of Talent Acquisition

829 Studios•Boston, MA

1d•Remote

About The Position

829 Studios is hiring a Director of Talent Acquisition to lead and scale its recruiting function. This is a player-coach role: the Director will personally recruit for strategic roles across sales, senior subject matter experts, and executive positions while managing, coaching, and developing the recruiting team. The role requires ownership of direct sourcing goals, the team’s recruiting strategy, and the systems and processes that support hiring growth. The Director will partner with senior leadership on workforce planning, hiring forecasts, and talent strategy tied to revenue and growth goals. They will bring market intelligence into planning, maintain an always-on talent pipeline, and personally manage full-cycle recruiting from intake through close for sales, strategic, and key executive roles. The role owns and improves recruiting processes in Ashby, reporting and dashboards, team KPIs, and evaluation and rollout of AI tools for sourcing, screening, and outreach. Success includes hitting sourcing and submission goals, filling roles against the headcount plan, improving time-to-fill, offer acceptance, and new-hire retention, developing and retaining recruiters, reducing reliance on outside agencies, and establishing a workforce-planning cadence with senior leadership. The position is remote, with the option to work from the Boston office or remotely from specified states. 829 Studios describes itself as a Boston-based integrated digital marketing agency and an equal opportunity employer.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in talent acquisition.
Experience managing and developing recruiters.
A track record of personally closing senior-level, sales, account management, and performance marketing roles.
Strong applicant tracking system skills.
Comfort presenting to executive leadership while also managing an individual recruiting desk.
A process-building approach, including willingness to improve broken workflows rather than work around them.
A metrics-driven approach to managing a team.
Experience recruiting internationally, with a track record of hiring in Canada, the UK, and LATAM.

Nice To Haves

Agency recruiting experience is preferred.
Hands-on experience with Ashby is preferred.
Familiarity with AI recruiting tools, or the ability to learn them quickly.
Experience recruiting in a fast-growing company.

Responsibilities

Manage, coach, and develop recruiters while carrying an individual requisition load and setting execution standards.
Set team goals, conduct regular pipeline reviews, and hold recruiters accountable for sourcing targets, submission volume and quality, and hires.
Build a talent acquisition structure that can scale as the company grows headcount.
Partner with senior leadership on workforce planning, hiring forecasts, and talent strategy aligned with revenue and growth goals.
Bring compensation benchmarks, competitive talent landscape information, and sourcing trends into planning discussions.
Advise on and execute an always-on hiring strategy, building and nurturing talent pipelines over time.
Personally manage full-cycle recruiting for sales, strategic, and key executive roles, from intake through close.
Run outbound sourcing, including self-sourced pipelines, targeted outreach, and market mapping, to support revenue growth.
Partner with hiring managers on role scoping, candidate experience, and offer strategy.
Own and improve the recruiting process in Ashby, from requisition intake through offer.
Build and maintain recruiting reports and dashboards that provide visibility into pipeline health and team performance.
Evaluate and roll out AI recruiting tools for sourcing, screening, and outreach.
Own and report on team KPIs, including sourcing activity, submissions, submission-to-offer conversion, offer acceptance, time-to-fill, and roles closed; adjust approaches based on results.
Work with HR to address quality-of-hire gaps and treat new-hire retention as a recruiting metric.
Establish a regular workforce-planning cadence with senior leadership.
Help reduce reliance on outside agencies and contingency recruiting spend as the in-house team scales.

Benefits

Generous paid vacation benefits that increase each year of employment.
14 company holidays and Summer Fridays from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
401(k) plan with a 4% Safe Harbor employer match after one year of employment.
Financial literacy services through the retirement provider.
No-cost life insurance coverage.
Short-term disability coverage.
Several healthcare plan options for employees and families, with 80% employer coverage for medical and dental premiums and 100% employer coverage for vision.
Flexible spending account option.
Commuter benefits using pre-tax funds.
Monthly team-led webinars, cohort-based learning, digital course platforms, and funding opportunities for national conferences and events.