Talent Acquisition Manager
About Tailscale
Tailscale is making safe connection effortless by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices, no matter where they are. From hobbyists to multinational corporations, teams of every size use Tailscale each day to protect their networks, share access to internal tools, and more. We're building a future for the Internet that's easy, sensible, and safe, like it used to be. Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, we're backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital.
About the Role
We’re looking for an experienced Talent Acquisition Manager to lead and develop a high-performing team of Talent Acquisition Partners while partnering with business leaders to deliver exceptional hiring outcomes.
This is a hands-on people leadership role responsible for recruiting performance across one or more business functions, such as Engineering, Product & Design or GTM & G&A. You’ll coach and develop Talent Acquisition Partners, translate business priorities into recruiting strategies, and ensure the team operates as trusted advisors to hiring leaders while consistently delivering against hiring goals.
You’ll partner closely with Talent Acquisition Operations and Sourcing, which provide the programs, systems, analytics, sourcing expertise, and operational infrastructure that enable recruiting success. We’re looking for a leader who brings strong recruiting judgment, business acumen, and a data-informed approach and thrives in a fast-moving environment where priorities evolve.
Key Responsibilities
Lead & Develop Talent Acquisition Partners
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Talent Acquisition Partners through clear expectations, ongoing feedback, career development, and performance management.
- Coach Partners to strengthen recruiting strategy, stakeholder management, candidate assessment, influencing, negotiation, and closing capabilities.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion, strong judgment, and continuous improvement.
- Build team capability and adapt priorities, coverage, and ways of working as business and hiring needs evolve.
Drive Recruiting Strategy & Performance
- Translate business priorities and hiring plans into actionable recruiting strategies, team priorities, and execution plans.
- Establish a high bar for recruiting excellence and ensure consistent execution, from intake and search strategy through candidate assessment, offer, and close.
- Review search performance, pipeline health, hiring velocity, and team capacity to identify risks and drive accountability for outcomes.
- Provide guidance and hands-on support for complex, high-priority, or executive searches when needed.
Partner with Business Leaders
- Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and serve as a strategic advisor on hiring priorities, talent markets, workforce needs, and recruiting strategy.
- Help leaders navigate talent availability, hiring tradeoffs, timelines, and market realities while maintaining a consistently high hiring bar.
- Proactively identify hiring risks and partner with Talent Acquisition Partners and business leaders to develop solutions.
- Create accountability around effective hiring practices, timely decision-making, interview quality, and candidate experience.
Use Data & Market Intelligence
- Bring expertise and comfort with recruiting data and market insights to assess performance, identify hiring risks, and improve team and search outcomes.
- Use pipeline, funnel, hiring velocity, capacity, and market data to identify trends and guide recruiting priorities and decisions.
- Translate recruiting performance and talent market insights into actionable recommendations for Talent Acquisition and business leaders.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition Operations to ensure reporting and analytics effectively support team performance and business decision-making.
Partner Across Talent Acquisition
- Collaborate closely with Sourcing, Talent