Senior Director, Talent Acquisition

Success Academy Charter Schools•New York, NY

10d•$230,000 - $275,000

About The Position

Success Academy is a rapidly growing network of public charter schools in New York, expanding to Florida, dedicated to providing children with a rigorous, whole-child education. They are seeking a results-obsessed Senior Director, Talent Acquisition to manage the day-to-day operations of their recruiting organization, excluding academic teacher recruitment, executive search, and TA operations & systems. The role requires leading TA like a high-performing sales organization, with a focus on daily activity targets, pipeline management, and coaching to metrics. This is a hands-on, high-energy operating role for a leader who thrives in a metrics-driven environment and can motivate a fast-moving team.

Requirements

8–10+ years in recruiting / talent acquisition, including 4+ years leading recruiters through managers in a high-volume, metrics-intensive environment.
A track record leading a high-velocity recruiting engine in a search firm or staffing/recruiting agency (senior leadership over a producing team) or a fast-paced, technology-forward, high-growth (small-to-mid-sized) company running high-volume recruiting.
Demonstrated ability to manage recruiting like a sales floor — activity metrics, pipeline and conversion discipline, quotas, and daily coaching that lifts a team's output.
Hands-on across the full recruiting lifecycle, from sourcing through close.
Proven builder and scaler who has stood up new teams, markets, or functions in a fast-growth setting.
Fluency with a modern recruiting tech stack (Greenhouse strongly preferred; GEM, BrightHire, or similar) and a bias for adopting new technology quickly.
Bachelor's degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
High-energy, competitive, and results-obsessed; leads from the front and sets the pace for the room.
A motivational people leader who sets a high bar and consistently gets discretionary effort from a team.
Data-driven; makes daily decisions off the funnel and holds self and team to the numbers.
Bias to action; thrives in a fast, changing, matrixed environment and prefers iterating over over-planning.
Low ego, high EQ; rolls up sleeves and collaborates at all levels of the organization.
Connected to Success Academy's mission of creating high-quality educational experiences for students, families, and educators.

Nice To Haves

Florida market expansion experience

Responsibilities

Own day-to-day leadership, execution, and results across non-instructional, corporate, and arts & athletics recruiting, and represent the function when the Head is out.
Run recruiting teams like a high-performing sales organization: set daily and weekly activity targets, monitor pipeline, conversion, and quality-of-hire metrics in real time, and coach Leads and recruiters to the number.
Lead, hire, and develop a bench of recruiting Leads and managers; set a high performance bar, give direct feedback, and act quickly on both top performers and under-performance.
Forecast hiring demand and set capacity, headcount, and coverage plans; reallocate resources across teams to hit aggressive volume goals.
Partner with TA leadership to build the Florida TA Team and operations, including a Team Lead, two recruiters, a sourcer, and a coordinator, covering both instructional and non-instructional hiring.
Optimize and streamline the end-to-end recruiting process to improve candidate experience, reduce corporate time-to-hire, and raise the quality of hire.
Own vendor and agency relationships and drive agency reduction.
Partner with the Head of TA and the TA strategy/operations function to turn enterprise plans into weekly results.
Build strong, credible relationships with school and corporate hiring managers, People partners, and senior leaders to align on needs and deliver.