Director, Talent Acquisition- Engineering

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. • Towson, MD

2d • $115,800 - $199,800 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Talent Acquisition – Engineering leads the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of talent acquisition for the engineering function. This role builds and manages a high-performing team of recruiters dedicated to hiring firmware engineers, embedded systems engineers, infrastructure/platform engineers, engineering managers, and technical leadership across the organization. The Director partners closely with engineering leadership (VPs/Directors of Engineering), HR Business Partners, and Total Rewards to design hiring strategies that scale with business growth while maintaining a high bar for talent quality, candidate experience, and diversity of hiring. This role is especially critical in periods of rapid team build-out and in markets where competition for specialized engineering talent is intense, requiring creative sourcing strategies, strong employer branding, and the ability to stand up hiring capacity quickly without sacrificing quality.

Requirements

• 8-10+ years of full-cycle technical/engineering recruiting experience, including 5+ years in a people-management role-leading recruiter within the manufacturing industry.
• Proven track record scaling engineering hiring in a high-growth or fast-paced environment, including rapidly building out new teams from the ground up
• Demonstrated success recruiting in tight or highly competitive talent markets and/or difficult geographies (e.g., limited local talent supply, high competition from established tech employers, relocation-dependent hiring)
• Deep understanding of engineering roles, leveling frameworks, and technical competencies (firmware, electrical, embedded, backend, frontend, infrastructure, ML/AI, etc.)
• Strong command of recruiting metrics, ATS platforms (Workday), and reporting/analytics
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience partnering directly with senior engineering leaders
• Familiarity with AI-driven sourcing/recruiting tools
• Prior experience building recruiting functions during periods of rapid growth

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of recruiters focused on engineering hiring, setting individual and team performance goals
• Own headcount planning, workload distribution, and capacity/utilization across the team relative to open requisition volume
• Build recruiter career pathing, onboarding, and ongoing skills development (technical sourcing, competency-based interviewing, negotiation)
• Foster a high-accountability, data-driven team culture
• Serve as the primary TA partner to engineering leadership, translating org growth plans into hiring strategy and forecasts
• Build trusted relationships with hiring managers to align on role scoping, leveling, competencies, and interview design
• Advise engineering leaders on market compensation trends, talent availability, and competitive positioning
• Design rapid-scale hiring playbooks (surge sourcing, accelerated interview loops, hiring events) to stand up new engineering teams or functions quickly without compromising quality bar
• Develop geo-specific talent strategies for constrained or highly competitive labor markets, including remote/distributed hiring, relocation incentives, and alternative talent pools (bootcamps, military transition, upskilling programs)
• Own engineering recruiting funnel metrics: time-to-fill, time-to-offer, source mix, offer-accept rate, and pipeline conversion
• Build and maintain requisition reporting and dashboards (e.g., in Workday or ATS of record) for leadership visibility
• Drive process improvements across sourcing, screening, interview loops, and offer management to increase speed and quality of hire
• Manage vendor and agency relationships as needed, including contract recruiting resources
• Evaluate recruiting technology and AI-enabled sourcing/screening tools to improve team efficiency
• Partner with employer branding to build engineering-specific talent attraction campaigns
• Design and scale employee referral programs specific to engineering talent
• Build competitive candidate value propositions (compensation positioning, career growth narrative, mission/product story) to win highly sought-after engineering talent against well-resourced competitors

Benefits

• Medical, dental, life, vision, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being.
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.
• Competitive salary
• Wellness program
• Retirement benefits
• Paid vacation, holidays & personal days.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed