Talent Acquisition Manager - Legal Experience Required
About The Position
The Ward Law Group, a leader in personal injury, is seeking a hands-on Talent Acquisition Manager. The firm has been voted best places to work for the past two years and offers an innovative, fast-paced, and ever-evolving environment where employees are empowered to make decisions and collaborate. The company values service to clients, teammates, and the community, along with faith, accountability, leadership, and growth. This fully on-site role in Miami Lakes is responsible for owning and scaling the firm’s recruiting function, building a high-volume, efficient, and data-driven operation, and managing SmartRecruiters, recruiting analytics, and process optimization. The manager will partner with leadership to support hiring plans, grow the recruiting team, and ensure recruiting operations scale with firm growth.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Talent Acquisition or Recruiting Operations.
- Hands-on experience owning and optimizing an ATS (SmartRecruiters preferred).
- Experience supporting high-volume recruiting environments.
- Strong analytics, reporting, and process design skills.
- Experience building or scaling recruiting teams.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end recruiting operations and execution for the firm.
- Design, implement, and continuously optimize a high-volume recruiting process.
- Translate hiring plans into execution timelines, recruiter capacity, and workflows.
- Maintain full pipeline ownership, including the ability and expectation to personally source, recruit, and interview candidates when hiring volume, urgency, or team capacity requires hands-on execution.
- Serve as the functional owner of SmartRecruiters, including workflows, automations, templates, and system configuration.
- Own the SmartRecruiters vendor relationship and system optimization.
- Ensure strong adoption, data integrity, and effective use across recruiters and hiring managers.
- Manage ATS integrations and related recruiting technology.
- Integrate Dialpad call data, recordings, and AI summaries across recruiting workflows and reporting.
- Build and maintain dashboards and reports for leadership.
- Track and analyze key recruiting metrics (time-to-fill, pipeline health, recruiter productivity, source effectiveness).
- Use data and insights to identify bottlenecks and drive process improvements.
- Scale the recruiting function by hiring, onboarding, and training internal recruiters and recruiting vendors.
- Set performance expectations, workflows, and KPIs as the team grows.
- Provide ongoing coaching and enablement focused on efficiency and quality.
- Continuously improve recruiting workflows, automation, and reporting.
- Standardize processes to support scale, compliance, and consistency.
Benefits
- A dynamic, high-performance culture where your leadership and execution directly impact success.
- Competitive salary and growth opportunities in a rapidly expanding firm.
- Comprehensive benefits: health insurance, 401K match, PTO, and professional development programs.
- Opportunities for professional development to help you grow your career.
- Comprehensive package includes health benefits.
- Pretax health care and dependent care saving accounts.
- Life insurance.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- A percentage match on your 401K contributions.
- Confidential counseling services.
- Mental health support.
- Financial guidance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
