Sr. Talent Partner

At Vista Higher Learning, we believe exceptional organizations are built by exceptional people. We're seeking a highly skilled, consultative, and driven Senior Talent Partner to help us identify, attract, and hire the talent that fuels our continued growth and success.

We are passionate, innovative, lifelong learners, and creative thinkers working to develop culturally authentic language learning products for K-12 schools and universities.

This is not a traditional recruiting role focused only on volume, activity metrics, or simply moving resumes through a process. Instead, we're looking for a strategic talent expert who excels at understanding business needs, assessing talent, identifying alignment and misalignment, and designing thoughtful hiring processes that lead to better hiring decisions and stronger organizational outcomes. As a Senior Talent Partner, you'll serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and business leaders, guiding them through every stage of the hiring lifecycle while helping elevate hiring practices across the organization.

You'll blend recruiting expertise, talent assessment, project management, analytics, and relationship building to deliver exceptional experiences for candidates and hiring teams alike.

If you're passionate about people, talent, organizational growth, and helping organizations make smarter hiring decisions, we'd love to hear from you.

Own and manage the end-to-end recruitment process across a variety of professional, technical, operational, and leadership positions

• Lead recruiting kickoff meetings and intake discussions to develop comprehensive hiring strategies
• Create and manage job postings, lead sourcing and develop sourcing strategies, candidate outreach, lead and organize interview planning and selection activities (including scheduling)
• Own initial assessment and filtering of applications, screen, assess, and interview candidates to identify both qualifications and long-term fit
• Guide candidates through the hiring process while delivering a positive and professional experience
• Lead offer development, compensation discussions, and salary negotiations when appropriate. Experience working within defined compensation structure and pre and post offer workflows within ATS
• Ensure timely and thoughtful candidate communication, feedback, and dispositioning throughout the recruitment lifecycle
• Champion a best-in-class candidate experience by overseeing the full recruitment journey, from attraction through onboarding, and collaborating across the organization to ensure a seamless, welcoming, and positive transition into VHL - Serving as a brand ambassador for VHL

Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders and hiring teams

• Consult with hiring managers to understand business needs, team dynamics, role requirements, and success profiles
• Develop and share meaningful candidate insights to inform candidate selection and decision making. Challenge assumptions when necessary and help leaders calibrate expectations to market realities
• Provide guidance on interview best practices, candidate evaluation, and hiring decision-making
• Facilitate productive hiring discussions and drive alignment among stakeholders
• Build strong, collaborative relationships across all levels of the organization

Help improve hiring outcomes by bringing structure, rigor, and consistency to the talent acquisition process

• Develop interview frameworks, candidate evaluation forms, scorecards, and assessment methodologies
• Design competency-based and behavioral interviewing approaches that improve candidate evaluation
• Ensure…