Senior Talent Acquisition Manager

Linklaters•New York, NY

5d•$190,000 - $220,000

About The Position

This role is responsible for end-to-end Talent Acquisition delivery across the US, spanning: Early Careers (law school / first year and summer associate recruiting), Experienced lawyers (associates and counsel lateral hiring), and Business teams hiring across all functions. The role combines strategic oversight and hands-on operational delivery, ensuring that Linklaters attracts, engages, and secures the highest-quality talent to support the firm’s US growth ambitions. Acting as a trusted adviser to senior stakeholders, the role integrates hiring strategies across all talent segments, ensuring alignment to workforce plans, diversity objectives, and broader people strategy.

Requirements

Significant experience in Talent Acquisition within the legal sector, including: Early careers / campus recruitment, Lateral hiring of associates and senior lawyers
Proven ability to lead end-to-end recruitment delivery across multiple talent segments
Strong stakeholder management experience with senior partners and business leaders
Commercial acumen with ability to align hiring to business strategy and market conditions
Experience managing search firms and external suppliers
Strong data orientation with ability to use insight to drive decisions
Excellent communication, influencing and advisory skills
Educated to degree level or equivalent, preferably in Human Resources, Business or a related discipline.
Ability to use data and market insight to support decisions, continuous improvement and innovation and communicate findings in a compelling and accessible way.
Strong organizational and coordination skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines across multiple functions simultaneously.
Ability to provide clear, pragmatic advice, balancing commercial, operational, risk and cultural considerations.
Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, with the credibility and confidence to engage and advise functional heads and senior business stakeholders on lateral hiring matters.
Excellent attention to detail and a commitment to the accuracy and integrity of all candidate and process-related information.
A collaborative and proactive working style, with the ability to build effective relationships across the People function and wider business

Responsibilities

Lead and deliver all US hiring activity across legal and business teams populations
Develop integrated hiring strategies covering early careers, lateral lawyers, and functional roles
Align hiring activity to business growth plans, headcount forecasts and workforce strategy
Provide market insight and hiring intelligence to senior stakeholders
Define and execute the US law school engagement and campus recruiting strategy
Build relationships with career services and student bodies to position Linklaters as an employer of choice
Oversee the on-campus interview program and candidate selection process
Design and deliver a market-leading summer associate program, including training, engagement and assessment processes
Manage full-cycle conversion from summer associates to full-time hires
Own the end-to-end lateral hiring process for associates and counsel
Partner with practice leaders to define resourcing needs and hiring priorities
Lead operational execution including screening, interview coordination, feedback synthesis, offers and onboarding
Ensure a high-touch candidate experience for senior and complex hires
Lead delivery of business teams hiring across all US functions and levels
Execute end-to-end recruitment processes (briefing, sourcing, offer and onboarding)
Build and manage proactive talent pipelines and market mapping capability
Use data and insights to improve performance, service delivery and hiring outcomes
Act as a trusted adviser to partners, functional leaders and senior stakeholders
Provide strategic hiring advice, balancing commercial, operational and market considerations
Support talent reviews, workforce planning and succession discussions through hiring insight
Prepare materials and updates for senior forums and executive stakeholders
Manage relationships with search firms, agencies and recruitment partners
Ensure strong governance, performance management and value for money
Maintain external networks across law schools, professional bodies and talent communities
Establish and continuously improve best-in-class recruitment processes and methodologies
Ensure data integrity, reporting accuracy and insight generation across US hiring activity
Maintain compliance with firm policies, governance and data standards
Embed Talent & Engagement priorities across all hiring activity, driving diverse and inclusive talent outcomes
Provide leadership, direction and coaching to US recruitment team members
Build a high-performing, collaborative and customer-focused TA team
Drive capability development and continuous improvement