Director of Talent Acquisition

829 Studios•Boston, MA

22h

About The Position

829 Studios is hiring a Director of Talent Acquisition to lead and scale its talent acquisition function. This is a player-coach role: the Director will personally recruit for strategic roles, including sales, senior subject matter experts, and executive positions, while managing and developing the recruiting team. The role combines hands-on sourcing and full-cycle recruiting with responsibility for building a scalable recruiting system, advising agency executives, and aligning talent strategy with revenue and growth goals. The Director will oversee recruiting processes and technology, reporting, team KPIs, workforce planning, and the use of AI recruiting tools. Success in the first six months includes stronger sourcing and submission performance, progress against headcount plans, repeatable recruiting processes, improved time-to-fill, offer acceptance and new-hire retention, reduced agency reliance, and an established workforce-planning cadence.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in talent acquisition, including experience managing and developing recruiters.
Track record of personally closing senior-level, sales, account management, and performance marketing roles.
Strong ATS skills.
Comfort with AI recruiting tools or ability to learn them quickly.
Ability to present to executive leadership while also running an individual recruiting desk.
Process-building mindset and willingness to fix broken workflows.
Metrics-driven approach to team management.

Nice To Haves

Agency experience.
Hands-on experience with Ashby.
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.
Provide market intelligence, including compensation benchmarks, competitive talent landscapes, and sourcing trends.
Develop 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 an outbound sourcing strategy involving self-sourced pipelines, targeted outreach, and market mapping.
Partner with hiring managers on role scoping, candidate experience, and offer strategy.
Own and improve recruiting processes in Ashby, from requisition intake through offer.
Build and maintain recruiting reports and dashboards that provide leadership visibility into pipeline health and team performance.
Evaluate and roll out AI 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 recruiting approaches based on performance metrics.
Work with HR to address quality-of-hire gaps and treat new-hire retention as a recruiting metric.

Benefits

Remote work option, with the option to work at the Boston office or remotely from listed states.
Generous paid vacation benefits that increase each year, 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.
Employer coverage of 80% of medical and dental premiums and 100% of vision premiums.
Option to participate in a flexible spending account (FSA) program.
Commuter benefits using pre-tax funds.
Continuing education through monthly team-led webinars, cohort-based learning, digital course platforms, and funding opportunities for national conferences and events.