Talent Acquisition Manager

About the Role

Transformco is seeking a seasoned Talent Acquisition Manager to lead and nurture a remote team of about 15 recruiters focused on high-volume hiring, particularly for technician, skilled trades, frontline, and hourly positions. This position demands dynamic leadership in a rapidly evolving and goal-oriented environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, coaching, and development for a distributed team of 15 recruiters.
• Create an accountable and positive work culture where team members understand their objectives and receive sufficient support to meet them.
• Manage daily recruiting operations to ensure seamless workflow.
• Establish weekly and monthly goals related to candidate pipelines, offers, hires, and communications.
• Assess and distribute recruitment workload in alignment with hiring demands, market priorities, and team capacity.
• Maintain close oversight of open roles, candidate progress, pending offers, and aging requisitions to achieve hiring targets.
• Proactively identify and address obstacles with recruiters and business partners promptly.
• Prepare and deliver detailed weekly and monthly performance reports, highlighting progress and risks.
• Coach recruiters on sourcing, candidate interaction, interview coordination, offer processes, and closing techniques.
• Support recruitment efforts across multiple geographic markets and organizational units.
• Develop sustainable pipelines for experienced technicians and skilled trades professionals.
• Partner with operational leaders to adapt recruiting strategies to changing workforce needs.
• Drive improvements in recruiting workflows, reporting, technology use, and overall team productivity.
• Promote the use of sourcing agents, AI tools, automation, and dashboards to enhance recruiting effectiveness.
• Remain engaged with hands-on recruiting support for challenging or urgent roles as necessary.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Minimum 4 to 5 years managing sizable recruiting or talent acquisition teams, ideally close to 15 members.
• Expertise in high-volume recruiting with a strong sense of discipline and follow-up.
• Experience hiring for technician, skilled trades, frontline, hourly, field service, or similar blue-collar roles.
• Proven ability to coach, develop, and retain recruitment personnel effectively.
• Skill in managing team performance through goal setting and consistent feedback.
• Thorough understanding of recruiting metrics, productivity, conversion rates, and reporting.
• Experience balancing workloads across multiple locations and markets.
• Exceptional organizational and decision-making skills in fast-paced environments.
• Excellent communication, judgment, follow-through, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Comfort with applicant tracking systems, sourcing tools, automation, and AI-enabled recruiting technologies.
• Prior experience managing a remote recruitment team strongly preferred.

Success Factors

Success in this role is evidenced by clear recruiting priorities, well-supported and held accountable teams, balanced workloads, active candidate pipelines, and timely, accurate reporting. The recruitment team will grow more proficient, confident, and capable of meeting large-scale hiring goals.

Additional Information

• Company: Transformco
• Location: Remote (Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area)
• Employment type: Full-time
• Reports to: Head of Talent Acquisition
• Team size: 15 recruiters plus 3 open positions