Technical Data & Talent Intelligence Lead, Talent Communities & Insights; TC&I

Position: Technical Data & Talent Intelligence Lead, Talent Communities & Insights (TC&I)

The application window is expected to close on: 11/19/2026 Locations:
Remote US

Key Responsibilities

• Own the technical data strategy, entity models, and normalization standards for external talent intelligence data; lead the taxonomy governance board to review, version, map, or retire datasets, skill ontologies, and competitor company clusters.
• Cross-Source Insights & Storytelling:
  Synthesize disparate market signals (competitor talent flows, hiring velocity, skill clusters, compensation trends, and attrition dynamics) into clear, actionable executive narratives, presentations, and sourcing playbooks.
• Talent Intelligence Product
  
  Roadmap:
  
  Partner closely with Talent Acquisition leaders, Executive Recruiting, and Workforce Planning to identify their biggest hiring challenges and define requirements for new reports, dashboards, and AI copilot use cases.
• Bridge Strategy & Analytics Engineering:
  Collaborate directly with our Technical Data / Analytics Engineering team to translate high-level recruiting and business questions into technical data requirements, ensuring our Snowflake data models deliver meaningful metrics.
• Vendor & Tooling Enablement:
  Serve as the functional product champion for specialized market intelligence and sourcing platforms (Draup, Linked In Insights, Seek Out), driving user adoption, training recruiters, and identifying feature/data gaps.
• Executive & Sourcing Briefings:
  Lead the creation of strategic market deliverables-ranging from ad-hoc competitor deep dives and executive talent dossiers to quarterly talent landscape overviews and intake kickoff packages.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Analytics, Market Research, Workforce Planning, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience), plus 7+ years of experience in Intelligence, Analytics, Workforce Strategy, or Talent Acquisition Insights.
• Analytics:
  Deep domain expertise in Analytics (preferably HR, Talent, or People Analytics)
• Synthesis & Storytelling:
  Proven track record of synthesizing complex, messy data across multiple external vendors into crisp, executive-ready stories, slide decks, and dashboards with recommendations.
• Stakeholder Leadership:
  Exceptional communication and consulting skills, with demonstrated success aligning cross-functional leaders, business partners, and executives without direct authority.
• Analytical Fluency:
  Comfortable manipulating, querying, and interpreting multi-source datasets (working knowledge of BI reporting tools, advanced Excel/Airtable, or basic SQL is helpful, though deep data engineering is not required).

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience designing intake briefing frameworks or talent intelligence playbooks for technical and executive recruiting teams.
• Familiarity with skill ontologies, occupational frameworks (such as O_NET or ESCO), and competitor technographic data.
• Experience using AI, agentic systems, or automated sourcing copilots to scale talent insights.
• Hands-on experience with specialized talent intelligence and sourcing platforms (such as Draup, Linked In Talent Insights, Seek Out, Phenom or Workday).

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