Talent Acquisition Manager

Better Trucks. Better World.

We’re raising the standard for what a medium-duty truck should be — delivering vehicles, infrastructure, and support designed to work for you.

Full-time

We’re raising the standard for what a medium-duty truck should be — delivering vehicles, infrastructure, and support designed to work for you.

Workhorse is seeking an experienced and highly driven Talent Acquisition Manager to lead and elevate our talent acquisition function. This is a hands‑on leadership role designed for an experienced recruiter who excels at identifying and attracting technical and professional talent while also building scalable recruiting processes, systems, and strategies.

The Talent Acquisition Manager will initially operate as a highly hands‑on individual contributor, personally managing critical and difficult‑to‑fill searches across the organization. A significant focus will be placed on recruiting for engineering, technical, manufacturing, supply chain, operations, IT, leadership, and other salaried professional positions.

Beyond recruiting, this individual will take ownership of strengthening the overall talent acquisition function, including our recruiting module/ATS, workflows, processes, reporting, candidate experience, hiring‑manager practices, and recruiting tools.

As the organization and hiring needs grow, this position will have the opportunity to build, develop, and lead a Talent Acquisition team.

• Manage full-cycle recruiting for technical, professional, salaried, and leadership positions across the organization.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in recruiting highly skilled and difficult‑to‑fill talent, particularly within engineering, manufacturing, automotive/EV, technology, supply chain, operations, and related technical functions.
• Partner closely with hiring managers and business leaders to understand organizational needs, technical requirements, team structure, and ideal candidate profiles.
• Develop proactive sourcing strategies rather than relying solely on inbound applicants.
• Build pipelines of passive technical and professional candidates for current and anticipated hiring needs.
• Conduct effective candidate screening and assessment to ensure candidates meet both technical requirements and organizational expectations.
• Manage candidates throughout the recruiting lifecycle, from initial outreach through offer acceptance and transition into preboarding.
• Provide hiring managers with market intelligence regarding candidate availability, compensation expectations, competitive hiring trends, and recruiting challenges.
• Create recruiting strategies for positions that are difficult to fill or have historically experienced long time‑to‑fill.

• Evaluate the current talent acquisition function and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, consistency, quality, and scalability.
• Develop and implement standardized recruiting workflows and processes across the organization.
• Establish clear expectations and ownership throughout the recruiting lifecycle.
• Continuously evaluate recruiting practices and recommend improvements based on data, business needs, candidate feedback, and hiring‑manager feedback.
• Develop structured processes for intake meetings, interview planning, candidate evaluation, interview feedback, offer approvals, and recruiting closeout.
• Partner with HR leadership to establish a scalable Talent Acquisition model that supports the organization’s future growth.

• Serve as the primary functional owner and subject matter expert for the company's recruiting module/Applicant Tracking System.
• Evaluate and redesign recruiting workflows to…