Senior Talent Partner

Brighton Jones • Seattle, WA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Brighton Jones is seeking a Senior Talent Partner to attract and hire people who will shape the firm’s growth. The role owns full-cycle recruiting for priority, senior-level, and hard-to-fill positions across the organization and in new markets. It combines proactive sourcing, thoughtful candidate assessment, trusted partnership with hiring leaders, and a high-touch candidate experience.

The Senior Talent Partner develops search strategies with hiring leaders, cultivates relationships with passive candidates, and helps teams make timely, evidence-based hiring decisions. The role also uses recruiting data and market intelligence to manage search progress and inform stakeholders, while contributing to recruiting programs and continuous improvement. This is an in-office, full-time, exempt position in a work-from-office culture described as offering significant flexibility. Brighton Jones cannot provide visa sponsorship.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including senior-level, specialized, or hard-to-fill searches.
• Demonstrated success developing creative sourcing strategies, engaging passive talent, and building pipelines across new or challenging markets.
• Experience partnering directly with hiring leaders to define search strategy, assess talent, navigate tradeoffs, and close candidates.
• A metrics-informed approach to managing pipeline activity, search progress, and recruiting outcomes.
• Strong interviewing and assessment skills, including judgment to evaluate capabilities and alignment with organizational values and ways of working.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to build credibility with candidates, hiring leaders, executives, and cross-functional partners.
• Proactive, organized, and resilient working style, with the ability to navigate complexity, changing priorities, and demanding searches.
• Collaborative and approachable working style, paired with accountability for delivering results.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Ability to work in an in-office role; the position is full-time and exempt.
• Must not require employment visa sponsorship now or in the future; Brighton Jones cannot provide visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• Financial services or professional services recruiting experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end recruiting process for priority, senior-level, and hard-to-fill roles, from intake and search strategy through sourcing, assessment, selection, and closing.
• Partner with hiring leaders to clarify business needs, define candidate profiles, align on interview and decision processes, and set realistic search expectations.
• Manage multiple searches with organization, urgency, attention to detail, and clear communication with candidates and stakeholders.
• Assess candidates’ experience, capabilities, motivations, and alignment with Brighton Jones’ culture and Values in Action.
• Guide hiring teams toward thoughtful, evidence-based decisions and maintain momentum throughout each search.
• Develop and execute creative sourcing strategies to reach qualified, diverse talent across markets, industries, and professional communities.
• Proactively identify, engage, qualify, and cultivate passive candidates using outreach, referrals, networking, research, social channels, and other relevant methods.
• Build and maintain relationships with prospective candidates and develop durable talent pipelines for current and future opportunities.
• Build knowledge of Brighton Jones’ business, teams, career opportunities, and employee value proposition to represent the firm credibly.
• Use market intelligence and candidate feedback to explain talent availability, competitive dynamics, and potential tradeoffs to hiring leaders.
• Provide candidates with a responsive, transparent, thoughtful, and consistent experience from first contact through offer and transition to onboarding.
• Partner with recruiting coordination and operations teammates to keep interviews, communications, feedback, and offers moving smoothly.
• Prepare hiring teams to assess candidates consistently and reinforce timely, specific interview feedback and clear next steps.
• Handle sensitive candidate, compensation, and business information with judgment and discretion.
• Maintain accurate and timely candidate, requisition, source, and activity data in the applicant tracking system.
• Use pipeline and recruiting data to evaluate search health, identify risks, prioritize activity, and communicate progress and recommendations to hiring leaders.
• Contribute to recruiting programs, process improvements, employer-brand efforts, and team initiatives.
• Share sourcing approaches, market insights, and lessons learned with the broader Get People team.
• Identify practical ways to improve recruiting quality, efficiency, and the experience of candidates and hiring teams.

Benefits

• Annual compensation of $130,000–$175,000, plus potential discretionary year-end profit sharing.
• Fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 3% of annual compensation.
• Equity ownership opportunities for every employee.
• New Business Incentive Program.
• Employee referral bonus.
• Cell phone data reimbursement.
• Discounted financial planning services for employees and immediate family members.
• Minimum three weeks of PTO starting Day 1.
• Winter Break, Summer Friday flex-days, and 10 paid holidays.
• Unlimited Volunteer Time Off and company grant matching.
• Heavily subsidized transit.
• 100% reimbursement for required training, certifications, licensing, and dues.
• Personal career development plans.
• Richer Life Business Partner coaching for all employees.
• Mindful Emotional & Social Intelligence training.
• Annual professional and personal wellbeing stipend.
• Quarterly team-building events and regular social events.
• Employee-led book clubs, committees, and affinity groups.
• Paid parental leave: 13 weeks for birthing parents and 6 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• Adoption benefits.
• Anniversary milestone celebrations, including a three-month paid sabbatical at 10 years.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior