As our Talent Acquisition Manager, you’ll lead and evolve our talent acquisition function to meet the demands of a growing global team. You'll manage a team of talent partners while also owning high-impact searches. This is a critical leadership role focused on building scalable processes, improving candidate experience, and partnering with business leaders on hiring strategy. You will drive our Talent Team to deliver diverse pipelines of incredible talent and ensure we continue to uphold our commitment to the best candidate experience possible. You will be responsible for tracking, reporting, and presenting KPIs to the leadership team; and continually identifying and implementing best practices.
What you’ll do:
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing talent acquisition team
- Partner with department leaders to define hiring needs, prioritization, and workforce planning
- Own and optimize the end-to-end recruitment process for speed, quality, and experience
- Implement and scale recruiting infrastructure, including ATS tools, data dashboards, and workflows
- Monitor key hiring metrics (time-to-fill, conversion rates, candidate NPS, etc.) to drive accountability and results
- Build and maintain a strong employer brand through partnerships, content, and events
- Manage vendor relationships and sourcing platforms to support team productivity
- Serve as trusted advisor, proactively consulting with business leaders on short and long-term hiring goals and developing and executing talent acquisition strategies that deliver results
- Develop service level agreements (SLAs) and other best practices to improve processes and increase recruitment output
- Partner with business leaders to strategize and execute on our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) priorities and drive recruiting-related initiatives to support diverse hiring efforts.
- Build recruiting team capability to proactively source and develop diverse candidate pools
- Propose and implement ongoing innovations and improvements to recruitment process
What you’ll bring:
- 8+ years of talent management experience required, B2B SaaS - Startup environment preferred
- 3+ years of people management experience required
- Expert knowledge in managing processes to support a thoughtful hiring process that meets hiring goals
- Comfortable partnering with senior leadership and management teams on hiring initiative
- Ability to take decisive action with a focus on results, along with strong business acumen, analysis, and problem-solving skills
- Strong data and analytical skills to pull current hiring reports
- Strong track record of partnering with the business to enable scalability in hiring goals
- Passionate about candidate experience, diversity, and culture-building through hiring
- Agile, adaptable, and collaborative—willing to roll up your sleeves and close key roles
- A true sense of ownership and accountability
- Be a core part of a mission-driven, high-growth company
- Autonomy to build and scale recruiting with best-in-class tools
- Collaborative culture with a strong focus on innovation and impact
- Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits
Benefits:
- Health & Wellness: 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision - employee and dependents.
- Learning & Development: $500 annually towards personal development opportunities.
- Unlimited PTO: Unlimited vacation policy for strong, fully charged batteries.
- 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: An inclusive policy to ensure you have time with your newborn or newly adopted child.
- Work Remotely: Flexible hours and work from home (especially these days!)
- 401K: Reach your financial goals while reducing your taxes
- HSA, FSA, & DCFSA: Pre-tax savings plans for healthcare and dependent care.
Drata is on a mission to serve as the trust layer between great companies.
Drata is a trust management platform that uses AI-driven automation to modernize governance, risk, and compliance, helping thousands of businesses develop a more secure, proactive, and risk-aware organization to continuously maintain trust with customers.
We all recognize the importance of earning and keeping the trust of our customers when it comes to protecting their data. We know how burdensome achieving and maintaining a strong GRC posture can be with the rise in compliance regulations. It’s a manual, redundant, error-prone, and unscalable process - and it only grows more complex and expensive over time.
Our team of SaaS, security, compliance, and audit experts have built a better way - with automation
Employment at Drata is based solely upon individual merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. We strictly prohibit unlawful discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, veteran status, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy status, sex, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by law. We also make reasonable accommodations to meet our obligations under laws protecting the rights of the disabled.
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