Blacksmith Agency · 1 month ago
TA Team Lead
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior LevelBlacksmith Agency is a recruiting-focused organization seeking a Talent Acquisition Manager to lead their recruiting function. This role involves managing a small team of recruiters while personally handling critical recruiting tasks to ensure high-quality hiring and team performance.
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Responsibilities
Partner with leadership to forecast hiring needs tied to revenue, capacity, and growth plans
Translate headcount plans into clear quarterly hiring priorities
Pressure test hiring plans and advise leadership when timing or expectations are misaligned
Personally own recruiting for priority and hard to fill roles
Oversee full cycle recruiting across all open roles
Ensure job descriptions reflect real expectations and success criteria
Drive decisive hiring outcomes without unnecessary delays
Manage, coach, and develop 2 to 3 recruiters
Set clear expectations for sourcing volume, pipeline quality, and time to hire
Review pipelines, screens, and candidate quality regularly
Hold recruiters accountable to standards, output, and follow through
Identify skill gaps and provide direct coaching to improve performance
Set and enforce a consistent hiring bar across the company
Review and calibrate recruiter assessments to ensure signal driven evaluations
Step in when hiring quality is at risk
Push back on hires that do not meet standards, even under pressure
Own the ATS and ensure clean data and accurate reporting
Build and refine recruiting workflows, scorecards, and interview guides
Create repeatable playbooks for recurring roles such as SDRs, AEs, PMs, and specialists
Continuously improve recruiting efficiency and decision clarity
Train hiring managers on structured interviewing and evaluation
Ensure hiring managers provide timely and meaningful feedback
Hold hiring managers accountable to recruiting timelines and decisions
Act as a thought partner on final hiring calls
Ensure candidates have a clear and honest view of expectations and culture
Maintain a professional, direct, and respectful candidate experience
Protect Blacksmith Agency’s reputation as a selective and well run company
Partner with operations and leadership on clean onboarding handoffs
Track early performance and retention of new hires
Use post hire outcomes to refine screening criteria and recruiter coaching
Qualification
Required
Experience leading and developing recruiters
Proven success owning recruiting in a high accountability environment
Strong hiring judgment across sales and professional services roles
Comfortable giving direct feedback and making hard calls
Experience with outbound sourcing and proactive recruiting
High ownership and high standards
Direct, calm, and decisive communicator
Strong people judgment and pattern recognition
Comfortable saying no when the bar is not met
Invested in building a team, not just filling roles
Company
Blacksmith Agency
Blacksmith Agency is a full-service agency, focuses on services like web designing, wireframing, web development, and ecommerce development.
Founded in 2012
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageRecent News
2025-09-25
2025-09-12
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