Sr Director Talent Acquisition

Senior Director Talent Acquisition

The Senior Director of Talent Acquisition will be a key driver of AppFolios growth leading from the front with a strategic datadriven approach to talent acquisition that fuels business success. In this role youll work closely with senior leadership to deeply understand business needs ensure efficient highimpact hiring processes and cultivate strong advocacy for Talent Acquisition throughout the organization.

As a core member of the People Leadership team you will own highpriority senior leader and executive requisitions empower hiring managers and build a highperforming team known for delivering excellence.

What Youll Do:

• Lead the Talent Acquisition team in executing proactive talent strategies that attract and retain top talent both internally and externally across the company.

• Partner with senior business leaders to assess both shortterm and longterm talent needs ensuring strategies and resources are aligned to meet hiring goals effectively.

• Work closely with HR Business Partners to develop a cohesive approach to workforce planning aligning hiring plans with organizational needs.

• Champion a hightouch scalable hiring process that supports an exceptional candidate experience while enabling managers to make informed hiring decisions.

• Build strong relationships across the organization specifically with the Executive Team empowering hiring managers and creating advocates for Talent Acquisition at all levels.

• Collaborate crossfunctionally with departments such as Marketing to design and implement an effective recruitment marketing strategy.

• Own the recruitment process for highpriority senior leader and executive requisitions delivering top talent for key leadership roles.

• Continuously improve talent assessment and interviewing processes implementing necessary training and best practices to enhance the overall hiring experience.

• Develop and refine talent acquisition metrics (KPIs) to assess effectiveness making datadriven decisions to optimize performance.

• Be an active member of the People Leadership team contributing to broader talent strategy discussions and driving workforce planning in partnership with department leaders.

Qualifications

• Attracts Top Talent: Knows how to attract and select diverse and highcaliber talent. Sees the value in a consistent and thorough recruiting process balanced with speed.

• Builds and leads HighPerforming Teams: Rallies the team behind common team goals while recognizing each team members individual strengths and unique background. Defines success in terms of the whole team ahead of individual goals.

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop and adjust recruiting strategies to address movements in the market and business. Brings new ways of looking at challenges. Finds and champions the best creative ideas and actively moves them into implementation.

• Communication Skills: Able to effectively communicate what we are doing and why we are doing it. Strong executive presence with both the ability and credibility to present ideas and recommendations at all levels within the organization.

• Analytical Skills: Able to distill data down to key information that enables great decisionmaking.

• Business Acumen: Understands how our business works knowledgeable in current and future practices policies trends and relevant technology. Grasps complexities and connections among problems or issues able to prioritize elements that will most drive AppFolio success.

• Dot Connector: Thoughtfully considers how events challenges new information and decisions may impact or connect to others and seizes the opportunity to join the associated people and teams. Consistently ensures that crossfunctional partners and the voice of the customer are represented in the design and delivery of people practices.

• 10 years of recruiting experience.

• 5 years of TA leadership experience in rapidpaced work environments and have led both recruiters and TA Ops and Enablement.
• 2 years of experience either as an Executive Recruiter or leading an Executive Recruiting team.
• Experience in Engineering Product/UX GTM HR.
• A demonstrated track record of building highperforming recruiting teams.
• Effective stakeholder management and influencing skills.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.