Lead Recruiter

EST03 INC•Blue Ash, OH

27d•$70,000 - $75,000•Onsite

About The Position

EST03 Inc. is seeking a recruiter to support high-activity, full-cycle recruiting across the organization. In this role, you will build strong sourcing, screening, candidate evaluation, and hiring manager partnership skills while supporting hiring needs across EST03 and its subsidiaries. You will help move candidates through the hiring process with urgency and professionalism while managing recruiting activity, interview coordination, and ATS workflows. This is not a passive recruiting role. Success requires proactive sourcing, strong follow-up, organization, and the ability to manage multiple open roles without losing momentum. EST03 Inc., established in Cincinnati in 2003, is the parent company of Advertising Vehicles, Adsposure, and STICK. Together, our companies help brands stands take their messages to the streets through fleet graphics, transit advertising, and professional installation services. As we continue to grow, we are looking for a motivated recruiting professional who wants to help us find, attract, and retain the right talent while growing their own career alongside EST03.

Requirements

7+ years of recruiting, staffing, talent acquisition, or related experience.
Proven success managing multiple searches, proactively sourcing candidates, and building qualified pipelines in a fast-paced environment.
Strong candidate screening, evaluation, communication, and hiring-manager partnership skills.
Demonstrated ownership, urgency, problem-solving, organization, and follow-through.
Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Communications, Psychology, or a related field.
Experience recruiting revenue-producing sales professionals.
Full-cycle recruiting experience across a variety of exempt and non-exempt roles.
Experience with applicant tracking systems, recruiting metrics, process improvement, and compliant hiring practices.

Responsibilities

Own full-cycle recruiting for assigned exempt and non-exempt roles across EST03 and its subsidiaries, moving qualified candidates from intake through accepted offer with urgency.
Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, ideal candidate profiles, hiring priorities, and effective recruiting strategies.
Conduct thorough candidate screens, evaluate experience, motivation, communication, performance history, and values alignment, and provide clear recommendations to hiring managers.
Maintain consistent communication with candidates and hiring teams while driving timely feedback, decisions, and next steps.
Quickly identify recruiting challenges, recommend practical solutions, and balance hiring speed with candidate quality and long-term fit.
Proactively hunt for active and passive candidates through LinkedIn, Indeed, job boards, referrals, networking, direct outreach, and other creative sourcing channels.
Build and maintain strong pipelines for recurring, high-priority, and difficult-to-fill roles, particularly within sales, operations, administrative, leadership, and early-career functions.
Track sourcing effectiveness and pipeline health, adjusting outreach strategies when results are not meeting hiring needs.
Manage ATS workflows, job postings, candidate records, recruiting metrics, and reporting with accuracy and consistency.
Take ownership of improving recruiting processes, interview tools, job descriptions, sourcing practices, and the overall candidate and hiring-manager experience.