Director, Doctor

Overview

About Specialized Dental Partners:
Specialized Dental Partners is a doctor-led network of 275+ specialty dental practices and 450+ doctors across multiple states. We offer the scale, resources, and professional connections that help specialists and teammates thrive, while maintaining the supportive culture and local relationships that define our organization.

Our purpose,We Care More, shapes how we support our doctors, teammates, and patients every day. We care more about patient outcomes, doctor success, teammate growth, meaningful relationships, and the communities we serve. By combining clinical excellence with a people-first culture, we create an environment where specialists can build rewarding careers while making a lasting impact.

At Specialized Dental Partners, you'll find more than a job. You'll find a community committed to helping you succeed.

From mentorship and career development to clinical collaboration and leadership opportunities, we are committed to helping our people grow personally and professionally.

If you're looking for an organization where your expertise is valued, your growth is supported, and your work makes a meaningful difference, we'd love to meet you!

The Director of Doctor Recruitment (Dental) is the senior recruiting leader responsible for building and leading Specialized Dental Partners’ (SDP) end-to-end doctor recruiting function nationwide. This role sets national recruiting strategy, standards, and priorities, and translates them into consistent, high-quality execution by leading the Regional Doctor Recruitment Managers.

The Director sets the bar and leads by example for how SDP recruits, coaches and develops regional leaders to personally engage on the organization’s highest-priority and most complex specialist searches. Success is measured by national hiring outcomes, the strength and development of the regional recruiting team, and the long‑term health of SDP’s specialist pipeline.

Specialized Dental Partners is building the most respected specialty partnership in dentistry. As the senior leader of national doctor recruiting, the Director of Doctor Recruitment ensures SDP doesn’t just hire doctors — it builds and leads the team that brings the right specialists into the right practices at the right time, nationwide, setting them up to thrive clinically, operationally, and personally.

• Own national specialist doctor hiring outcomes, from strategy and target-setting through signed agreements and start dates

• Set national recruiting standards, playbooks, and best practices, and ensure consistent adoption across regions

• Maintain deep knowledge of national and regional market dynamics, competitive landscapes, and candidate motivations to inform strategy

• Directly manage and develop the Regional Doctor Recruitment Managers including goal-setting, coaching, and performance management

• Review regional pipelines and results regularly, removing bottlenecks and reallocating focus or resources as market conditions shift

• Personally engage on the organization’s highest‑priority, most complex, or highest‑risk specialist searches alongside regional teams

• Partner with the Marketing team to activate and optimize residency, military, referral, and experienced‑doctor pipelines nationally

• Coordinate with the Chief Clinical Officer to align recruiting messaging with post‑hire onboarding, mentorship, and engagement strategies

• Partner with HR and Talent Acquisition on compliant, efficient, and scalable hiring processes, offers, and transitions to onboarding

• Own the national framework for clinical vetting,…