Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
What This Role Is
Most recruiters spend their careers fighting the same fight: a broken ATS, manual screening that eats the whole day, a hiring manager who ghosts the scorecard, a pipeline that starts from zero every time a req opens. That fight is largely over at Manifest. Resume screening, first-round AI phone screening, and interview scheduling already run on a live automation pipeline. Every open role carries a structured AI-Lens score before a hire is made. The administrative weight that usually defines a recruiter's day is already handled.
What's left is the part of the job that actually matters, and the part most recruiters never get enough time to do well: reading a role correctly before you source for it, building a pipeline before the req is desperate, coaching a hiring manager through a real interview instead of a rubber stamp, and closing a candidate who has other offers on the table. That's this role. You inherit a portfolio of open roles across the Manifest brand family, and you own each one end to end, inside a system built to let you spend your time on judgment, not logistics.
You own proving that a recruiter given real leverage, real tools, and real ownership can outperform a much bigger team running the old way.
What Makes This Role Different
Most Senior Talent Acquisition roles ask you to either inherit chaos or build infrastructure from nothing. This one asks something rarer: step into a function that's already operating ahead of where most companies' TA teams will be in a few years, and bring the craft that no automation stack can replace. If your best days as a recruiter are the ones spent actually talking to people, reading a candidate's real motivation, coaching a hiring manager into asking a better question, this is a role built around giving you more of those days, not fewer.
The Manifest ecosystem means your work isn't confined to one brand's hiring needs in isolation. You're building pipelines across a group actively investing in never starting critical searches from a blank page again, and the muscle you build here compounds across every brand you touch, not just one.
What You Own
Your portfolio of open roles, assigned as you join, owned end to end and tracked against a tiered service standard that separates urgent hires from foundational ones
Calibration and pipeline quality on every role you run: structured scorecards, AI-Lens scoring, and honest debate on any candidate who raises a real question, never a quiet pass or fail
Hiring manager partnership, coaching certified managers through structured interviewing and treating your own read on a role as something worth defending, not just executing
Pipeline building on the roles Manifest hires for again and again, so the next opening in your portfolio starts with a warm pool, not a cold search