Director, Talent Acquisition

Copado•New Orleans, LA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Copado is looking for a Director, Talent Acquisition to lead our recruiting function as we scale our team globally. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can build and coach a high-performing recruiting team while staying close enough to the work to jump into critical searches, collaborate with hiring managers, and solve sourcing challenges in competitive and emerging talent markets. You'll own the strategy and execution behind how Copado attracts, evaluates, and hires talent across technical (Engineering, DevOps, Product), Go-To-Market (Sales, Marketing, Customer Success) and Corporate functions. You will partner closely with Total Rewards, People Ops and People Business Partners on the talent strategy, programs and processes; and People Business Partners on organizational design, building high performing teams and career development.

Requirements

8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including 3+ years leading a recruiting team, ideally in a high-growth B2B SaaS or PE/VC-backed environment
Track record hiring across both technical and go-to-market functions, including hard-to-fill or specialized roles
Experience building or scaling recruiting in new geographic markets
Strong compensation and market-data fluency; comfortable benchmarking across multiple regions
Experience partnering with an ATS (Rippling, Greenhouse, Lever, or similar) and comfort working closely with a TA Ops/systems counterpart rather than owning that infrastructure directly
Executive presence — able to run confidential searches and advise hiring managers and executives directly
A bias toward building scalable process without losing the human/candidate-experience side of recruiting

Nice To Haves

Experience managing a global team and setting hiring strategies for distributed teams and in new markets
Experience in a PE backed, enterprise software company
Familiarity with DevOps, developer tools, or platform engineering hiring specifically

Responsibilities

Own Copado's end-to-end talent acquisition strategy, aligned to annual headcount plans and board-level growth targets
Build, manage, and develop a team of recruiters; set clear goals, coach on pipeline quality, and create career pathing within the team
Lead Employer Branding and build talent pipelines centered around New Orleans
Personally own or closely oversee recruiting for executive and other high-priority/confidential searches
Drive sourcing strategy for hard-to-fill technical roles (Product Management, DevOps & AI engineering, etc.) and GTM roles
Define Copado's campus recruiting strategy, including target schools/markets and headcount allocation across the intern class
Own TA KPIs: time-to-fill, offer-accept rate, source-of-hire mix, cost-per-hire, diversity pipeline metrics, hiring manager satisfaction
Continuously improve recruiting process, interview design, and scorecards in partnership with Talent Acquisition Ops
Evaluate and manage external vendor relationships (contractors, agencies, sourcing tools) as capacity needs dictate
Serve as a trusted talent advisor to senior business leaders, building strong partnerships to understand their organizations, anticipate talent needs, and align recruiting strategies to the growth and scale of their teams
Bring market insight, sound judgment, and a point of view that influences talent decisions and positions Talent Acquisition as a strategic thought partner to the business
Serve as a key member of the People Leadership Team, partnering closely with People Operations, People Business Partners, and People Development to deliver an integrated People strategy
Help translate annual People Team priorities into shared outcomes, ensuring our approach to attracting, developing, and supporting talent is connected across the employee lifecycle