Oakleaf Group Looking for Director of Recruiting Operations & Talent Acquisition at Washington, Georgia Full Time

The Oakleaf Group seeks a motivated, hands-on Director of Recruiting Operations who is passionate about finding the best talent and driven to build up a successful and strategic recruitment and talent acquisition function. This is a key “hands-on” position reporting to the President.

Primary Responsibilities

As the recruitment leader, you will:

• Drive and implement a strategic recruitment and talent acquisition effort for the firm and be responsible for the success of the function and its team members.
• Build up a scalable recruitment operation and team to ensure the firm is able to hire top experts and technical professionals to help the firm achieve its goals.
• Partner with multiple Practice Managing Directors to help them fulfill their upcoming project needs and talent priorities.
• Improve the existing recruitment process and talent acquisition approach to ensure a high quality experience for all candidates.
• Proactively develop pipelines of potential candidates to reduce time-to-hire and ensure the firm is able to attract and hire the best professionals.

This is a virtual position that can be located anywhere in the US., but has the ability to occasionally visit (when appropriate) the Bethesda-based head office.

Who We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone who has the interest and the ability to create a pro-active, high-impact recruitment function that drives rapid, high-quality hiring across the organization. We need someone with prior experience building up a full-cycle recruiting effort. We’re looking for a natural people leader who is passionate about building great teams and able to define strategy, develop processes and create metrics and reporting to make sure the recruiting engine is running efficiently.

Our ideal candidate will bring considerable recruiting and mortgage/banking knowledge to help inform recruiting best practices, screening, and candidate management. We need someone with enough experience to be a highly reliable recruiting partner able to work closely with our Practice Managing Directors and develop strong relationships with subject matter experts and clients. You must be able to create alignment with internal business development partners and ensure a great hiring experience for all candidates.

We need someone to be a “hands-on” leader who is able to lead and work alongside our team to recruit highly skilled technical roles. While working to build up the talent acquisition and recruitment operation, you must be willing to jump in and even manage your own set of technical searches if necessary.

For the successful candidate, this is a great opportunity to make an impact and build up a recruitment function within a growing mortgage-industry consulting firm.

Essential Functions:

• Implement the recruitment strategy and recruitment process to ensure the company achieves its hiring goals

• Lead innovative sourcing and talent pool strategies to attract top talent for high-priority technical requisitions.

• Partner with Oakleaf stakeholders to determine recruiting priorities and capacity
 and to continuously evolve organizational effectiveness and design

• Build out a Recruitment team to operate as a support and empowerment function to the Practice Managing Directors
• Develop strong candidate pipelines, utilizing a variety of sourcing methods and recruitment channels, and leveraging technology to maximize productivity and candidate quality.
• Be accountable for overall Recruitment success; as well as tracking, analyzing, and reporting metrics to monitor and continuously improve performance, efficiency, and capability.
• Drive a culture of constant improvement, identifying and implementing strategies and processes to increase business-wide recruiting effectiveness and efficiency


We’re looking for someone with the following skills and experience:

• You have prior experience being the accountable owner of Recruiting delivery for an advisory firm or consultancy; You have successfully managed or built up the Recruitment function.
• You have at least 5 years of experience as a Full Cycle Technical Recruiter across Financial Services, Mortgage, and Banking
• You have prior experience managing a high-volume requisition load with competing demands from various internal/external business groups

• You have the proven ability to act as the single point of escalation for split-desk issue resolution between Practice business developers, general sales executives, and the recruiters on your team
• You have experience with multiple sourcing techniques (e.g. social media recruiting, AI solutions, and Boolean search) and have experience using sourcing platforms (LinkedIn) and other sourcing/AI platforms

• You thrive on partnering with Technical SME and Practice Managing Directors to drive all facets of the recruiting life-cycle in a fast paced consulting environment

• You are able to use data to optimize the recruiting processes, develop innovative strategies, increase applicant pipelines, and present findings to the executive team

• You are able to build working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and be recognized as a trusted advisor in all recruitment matters

• You have experience working in a business with highly ambitious growth plans and can demonstrate how you added value
• You have proven experience building pipelines of talented people for hard-to-fill roles across Financial Services, Mortgage, and Banking

• You are passionate about building teams and company culture

• You are capable of managing immediate priorities while anticipating future needs

• You are a strong team player who emphasizes team success over individual success

• You have a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and are legally able to work in the U.S


What We Offer

• Competitive compensation based on experience

• Full medical and dental benefits

• Casual work environment (Virtual/work-from home)


We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.