Director, Talent Acquisition- Engineering

Director, Talent Acquisition
- Engineering Towson, MD
- Hybrid Come make the world and accelerate your success.

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Director, Talent Acquisition – Engineering leads the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of talent acquisition for the engineering function. This role builds and manages a high-performing team of recruiters dedicated to hiring firmware engineers, embedded systems engineers, infrastructure/platform engineers, engineering managers, and technical leadership across the organization. The Director partners closely with engineering leadership (VPs/Directors of Engineering), HR Business Partners, and Total Rewards to design hiring strategies that scale with business growth while maintaining a high bar for talent quality, candidate experience, and diversity of hiring.

This role is especially critical in periods of rapid team build-out and in markets where competition for specialized engineering talent is intense, requiring creative sourcing strategies, strong employer branding, and the ability to stand up hiring capacity quickly without sacrificing quality.

Key Responsibilities Team Leadership & Management Lead, coach, and develop a team of recruiters focused on engineering hiring, setting individual and team performance goals

Own headcount planning, workload distribution, and capacity/utilization across the team relative to open requisition volume

Build recruiter career pathing, onboarding, and ongoing skills development (technical sourcing, competency-based interviewing, negotiation)
Foster a high-accountability, data-driven team culture

Strategy & Stakeholder Partnership Serve as the primary TA partner to engineering leadership, translating org growth plans into hiring strategy and forecasts

Build trusted relationships with hiring managers to align on role scoping, leveling, competencies, and interview design

Advise engineering leaders on market compensation trends, talent availability, and competitive positioning

Design rapid-scale hiring playbooks (surge sourcing, accelerated interview loops, hiring events) to stand up new engineering teams or functions quickly without compromising quality bar Develop geo-specific talent strategies for constrained or highly competitive labor markets, including remote/distributed hiring, relocation incentives, and alternative talent pools (bootcamps, military transition, upskilling programs) undefined

Operations & Metrics Own engineering recruiting funnel metrics: time-to-fill, time-to-offer, source mix, offer-accept rate, and pipeline conversion

Build and maintain requisition reporting and dashboards (e.g., in Workday or ATS of record) for leadership visibility

Drive process improvements across sourcing, screening, interview loops, and offer management to increase speed and quality of hire Manage vendor and agency relationships as needed, including contract recruiting resources

Programs & Innovation Evaluate recruiting technology and AI-enabled sourcing/screening tools to improve team efficiency

Partner with employer branding to build engineering-specific talent attraction campaigns

Design and scale employee referral programs specific to engineering talent

Build competitive candidate value propositions (compensation positioning, career growth narrative, mission/product story) to…