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Senior Talent Acquisition Partner
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JOB DESCRIPTION
About the Role
The Senior Talent Acquisition Partner is a hands-on recruiting leader responsible for identifying, attracting, assessing, and hiring exceptional talent across all levels of the organization. This role combines full-cycle recruiting execution with team leadership and requires an individual who is equally comfortable personally sourcing, screening, interviewing, and closing candidates while building scalable recruiting practices.
The ideal candidate is an innovative and resourceful recruiter who enjoys cultivating relationships, proactively engaging active and passive talent, and finding creative ways to reach exceptional candidates. This leader will serve as a brand ambassador for Digital Factory by developing relationships with universities, professional organizations, community partners, and industry networks that strengthen the organization’s talent pipeline and market presence.
Working closely with the Director – Talent Acquisition, Chief People & Culture Officer, and other C-suite executives, the Senior Talent Acquisition Partner will lead priority searches, strengthen the employer brand, and support organizational growth.
This is an equity-only role, ideal for a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner who thrives in fast-moving, high-growth environments and wants to help shape the future of how we hire, grow, and build at DF.
Location:
Chicago, Illinois
WHO WE ARE
Our team's digital inventiveness and mobile location expertise creates brand stories that produce results. We are seasoned professionals who have worked in marketing, technology, mobile, and beyond. Our skills include Micro-fencing, mobile strategy, data analytics, and more.
THIS POSITION WILL ENTAIL:
What You’ll Do
Talent Acquisition
- Lead full-cycle global recruitment for professional, technical, sales, marketing, and internship positions.
- Develop innovative sourcing strategies to identify and engage active and passive candidates across multiple channels.
- Conduct behavioral and competency-based interviews to assess technical qualifications, leadership capability, and organizational fit.
- Build strong relationships with candidates throughout the recruitment lifecycle, delivering an exceptional candidate experience.
- Partner with hiring managers to define position requirements, develop recruiting strategies, and facilitate hiring decisions.
- Manage offer development, negotiations, and candidate closing activities.
- Maintain active talent pipelines to support current and future hiring needs.
University & Early Career Pipeline
- Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with colleges, universities, and professional organizations to build sustainable early career talent pipelines.
- Maintain strategic partnerships with colleges and universities, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), and other institutions aligned with Digital Factory's talent strategy, to build sustainable early career talent pipelines and expand access to exceptional emerging talent.
- Represent Digital Factory at career fairs, networking events, student organizations, and recruiting events.
- Develop internship, co-op, and early career recruiting strategies.
Talent Sourcing & Networking
- Build a pipeline of viable candidates and maintain long-term relationships with passive candidates and industry professionals.
- Utilize LinkedIn Recruiter, networking, referrals, professional associations, conferences, and social media to identify top talent.
- Research new sourcing methodologies, AI-enabled recruiting tools, and innovative approaches to talent attraction.
- Continuously expand recruiting channels to reach diverse, high-performing talent pools.
Talent Acquisition Operations
- Maintain accurate candidate records within the Applicant Tracking System.
- Ensure compliance with employment laws and hiring policies.
- Improve recruiting processes to enhance efficiency and candidate experience.
DESIRED SKILLS QUALIFICATIONS:
What You Bring
- 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience
- Proven success recruiting in Technology, Sales, Marketing, Operations, highly regulated industries,or high-growth environments.
- Strong understanding of sourcing, DEI recruiting practices, and global talent trends.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; trusted advisor to leaders.
Desired Skills
- Demonstrated success sourcing passive candidates.
- Exceptional networking and relationship-building skills.
- Strong behavioral interviewing and candidate assessment skills.
- Creative and resourceful sourcing techniques.
- Experience recruiting through LinkedIn Recruiter, referrals, networking events, and professional associations.
- Ability to recruit technical, corporate, and early career talent simultaneously.
- Self-directed with a bias toward action and execution.
What You Get
- Equity-based opportunity to build and lead the global talent engine at Digital Factory.
- Direct partnership with the Chief People & Culture Officer and exposure to executive leadership, workforce design, organizational strategy, and scale strategy.
- Opportunities to collaborate with C-suite executives and business leaders across multiple functions.
- Exposure to strategic HR disciplines, including Talent Management, People Analytics, workforce planning, and organizational development.
- Opportunities to lead cross-functional projects that broaden your business and leadership experience.
- Professional coaching, mentorship, and visibility that support long-term career growth and advancement.
- A creative, inclusive culture that values innovation, clarity, and purpose.
Compensation
This opportunity is offered on an equity-only basis as we continue to scale. There is no salary or hourly compensation at this time.
At Digital Factory, we’re committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Digital Factory believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
Human™ is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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