Recruiting Manager; Remote

About Directive

Directive Consulting is the leading B2B marketing agency for brands that are serious about the metrics that matter most. With over a decade of expertise and 420+ B2B brands under our belt, we've earned our reputation on real outcomes. We run through 3 divisions:
Performance, Communications, and Commerce, all wired to share intelligence and answer to revenue. That system spans everything from Paid Media and Content Marketing, to PR and Paid Social, to Marketplace and Lifecycle Marketing. Tying it all together is our methodology, Discoverability OS™, which aligns brand and demand to guide your ICP to choose you across every decision point. We move fast.

We think boldly. We hire people who challenge the status quo, build campaigns worth talking about, and make bold brands impossible to ignore. If you live for performance, love solving hard problems, and want your work to actually mean something, you'll fit right in.

The Associate Director of Talent Acquisition is a strategic, hands-on leader responsible for building world-class teams across Directive while leading and developing a high-performing recruiting team. This is a player-coach role. You'll manage a small team of recruiters while carrying your own portfolio of critical and executive-level searches. You'll partner closely with leaders across the business to develop hiring strategies, improve recruiting operations and ensure an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience from beginning to end.

As the primary owner of our Applicant Tracking System (Ashby), you'll drive recruiting operations, reporting, process optimization, interview excellence, and data-driven decision making to continually improve how we hire. You are passionate about building exceptional teams, coaching recruiters, creating scalable hiring processes, and raising the bar for talent across the organization. This position reports to the Head of People Operations and works remotely.

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of Talent Acquisition Partners, creating a high-performance recruiting organization
• Conduct regular pipeline reviews, hiring strategy sessions, and recruiter coaching to improve performance and hiring outcomes
• Establish recruiting goals, priorities, and team performance metrics while ensuring consistent execution
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-accountability recruiting culture

• Personally manage a portfolio of high-impact and executive-level searches across the business
• Lead full-cycle recruiting from intake through offer negotiation and close
• Partner with senior leadership to define hiring strategies for critical and hard-to-fill roles
• Conduct structured interviews and assess candidates for technical capability, leadership potential, and alignment with Directive's values
• Build proactive talent pipelines for future hiring needs through networking, sourcing, referrals, and market mapping
• If the recruitment team is backed up on their roles, you are ready to jump in and help.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and executives on talent strategy, market trends, compensation insights, interview best practices, and hiring decisions
• Drive consistent communication with hiring managers regarding pipeline health, recruiting progress, market conditions, and challenges
• Lead intake meetings to align hiring expectations and create effective recruiting strategies
• Report to the executive team on a weekly basis on progress of roles.

• Serve as the primary administrator and subject matter expert for Ashby ATS
• Own the full recruitment process from job posting to offer negotiation
• Continuously optimize recruiting workflows, interview processes, automations, templates, scorecards, and reporting
• Maintain recruiting data integrity and ensure accurate reporting across all hiring activity
• Develop dashboards and recruiting analytics to monitor KPIs, hiring funnel health, source effectiveness, diversity metrics, and recruiter performance
• Partner with People Operations and HR leadership to improve recruiting systems and processes

• Champion an exceptional candidate experience that reflects Directive's values and culture
• Ensure consistency across interview processes and candidate communications
• Partner with Marketing and People teams on employer branding initiatives to attract top global talent
• Drive inclusive recruiting practices and…