Manager, Talent Acquisition; Remote First

About Us:

Zensurance is redefining commercial insurance for Canadian businesses.

As a leading Insur Tech, we make getting the right coverage simple, fast, and accessible through a digital-first experience. Our platform combines advanced technology with deep industry expertise to deliver tailored insurance solutions that help businesses thrive.

Zensurance has been recognized for its rapid growth and industry impact:

At Zensurance, we value ownership, collaboration, and innovation. Our team thrives on solving complex challenges, challenging the status quo, and making a real impact in an industry ready for change.

We’re hiring a Manager, Talent Acquisition to lead our recruiting function and develop it into a consistent, measurable, and scalable function. This is a people leadership role. You’ll manage a team of three recruiters and, rather than carrying your own requisition load, you’ll own the systems, standards, and data that let the whole team hire consistently well.

You’ll report to the Senior Manager, People Operations, and own the day-to-day execution of Zensurance’s Talent Acquisition strategy.

• Manage, coach, and develop three recruiters, setting clear expectations and a growth path for each.

• Build a team culture centered on consistency, candidate experience, and accountability for outcomes.

• Own team capacity planning and workload distribution as hiring needs shift across the business.

• Design and implement standardized intake, screening, and interview processes across all roles and levels.

• Define what a "strong hire" looks like for key roles, in partnership with hiring managers and People leadership, and build structured scorecards and interview kits around those definitions.

• Build screening that assesses how candidates work in a distributed environment, including written communication, self-direction and how they collaborate without being in the room.

• Train and coach hiring managers on structured interviewing, unbiased evaluation, and how to be effective partners in the hiring process.

• Own how we build pipeline, including sourcing, referrals, talent pools and the channels we invest in, so we're not dependent on inbound applications for hard-to-fill roles.

• Set sourcing expectations and coach the team on proactive outreach, with pipeline volume and conversion tracked by role and by channel.

• Build pipeline ahead of demand for the roles we hire repeatedly, using the workforce plan rather than waiting for the req to open.

• Work with Marketing and People on employer brand so the roles we post reach the right candidates in the first place.

• Establish a reliable data foundation in our ATS so reporting can be trusted for decision making.

• Define and stand up core recruiting metrics (e.g., time-to-fill, quality of hire, pipeline conversion, interviewer consistency) and build dashboards leadership can rely on.

• Establish ongoing data hygiene practices so metrics stay accurate as the team scales.

• Work with senior leaders across the business on hiring forecasts, role prioritization and realistic timelines, so recruiting capacity matches the plan and surprises get named early.

• Partner with People Operations and HR Analytics to connect recruiting execution to workforce planning and onboarding.

• Own talent acquisition operationally, translating the talent strategy you shape with HR leadership into how the team works week to week.

• Work with the onboarding team on the handoff from offer to first day, so hiring quality carries through to new-hire success.

• Maintain compliance with applicable employment and…