Talent Acquisition Manager

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About the role

  • Talent Acquisition Manager leading Talent Acquisition Partners for Tailscale, a secure networking software company. Driving recruiting strategy, executive hiring, data-informed performance, and business-leader advising.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of Talent Acquisition Partners through expectations, feedback, career development, and performance management
  • Strengthen team capabilities in recruiting strategy, stakeholder management, candidate assessment, influencing, negotiation, and closing
  • Foster accountability, collaboration, inclusion, strong judgment, and continuous improvement
  • Adapt team priorities, coverage, and ways of working as business and hiring needs evolve
  • Translate business priorities and hiring plans into recruiting strategies, team priorities, and execution plans
  • Ensure consistent recruiting execution from intake and search strategy through candidate assessment, offer, and close
  • Review search performance, pipeline health, hiring velocity, and team capacity to identify risks and drive accountability
  • Provide hands-on support for complex, high-priority, or executive searches
  • Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and advise on hiring priorities, talent markets, workforce needs, and recruiting strategy
  • Help leaders navigate talent availability, hiring tradeoffs, timelines, and market realities
  • Identify hiring risks and develop solutions with Talent Acquisition Partners and business leaders
  • Create accountability for effective hiring practices, timely decisions, interview quality, and candidate experience
  • Use recruiting data, market intelligence, pipeline, funnel, hiring velocity, capacity, and market data to guide decisions
  • Translate recruiting performance and talent market insights into actionable recommendations
  • Partner with Talent Acquisition Operations on reporting and analytics
  • Collaborate with Sourcing, Talent Acquisition Operations, and TA leadership to align strategies, resources, and priorities
  • Improve recruiting programs, tools, workflows, and AI-enabled practices through feedback
  • Contribute to Talent Acquisition initiatives that improve candidate experience, team effectiveness, and scalability

Requirements

  • 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience supporting technical and/or business organizations in high-growth technology environments
  • 2–5+ years leading and developing recruiting teams
  • Demonstrated success coaching experienced Talent Acquisition Partners, setting expectations, managing performance, and building high-performing teams
  • Proven ability to partner with senior business leaders as a trusted advisor and influence hiring strategies and decisions
  • Strong recruiting expertise and business acumen
  • Ability to translate organizational priorities and hiring plans into recruiting strategies and team execution
  • Strong analytical skills and comfort using recruiting data, market intelligence, and performance metrics
  • Ability to lead through ambiguity, balance strategic priorities with hands-on leadership, and adapt team focus
  • Strong communication, coaching, and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience partnering across Sourcing, Talent Acquisition Operations, and other cross-functional teams
  • Nice to have: experience leading recruiting across Engineering, Product, Design, GTM, and/or G&A
  • Nice to have: experience scaling recruiting and organizational growth within a high-growth technology company
  • Nice to have: experience partnering with dedicated Sourcing and Talent Acquisition Operations teams
  • Nice to have: experience hiring globally across North America, EMEA, and/or APAC
  • Nice to have: track record of developing strong recruiters into trusted business advisors

Benefits

  • An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self
  • Competitive total compensation package including base salary, equity incentive plan, and variable commission for quota-based roles
  • Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period, including health, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family
  • Remote-first flexibility, virtual and in-person social events, and corporate co-working program
  • Employer-funded retirement contributions matching employee contributions dollar-for-dollar, up to 0.75% of eligible compensation annually
  • Annual company retreat and team off-sites
  • $1500 USD annually for professional development, plus mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities
  • Flexible paid time off program
  • Company-owned laptop choice of Mac or PC
  • Monthly home internet reimbursement
  • $500 USD home office workstation customization allowance
  • Paid parental leave top-ups: 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents
  • Accessible and inclusive hiring process with accommodations available

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

$158,000 - $197,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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