Overall Purpose: The Lead Recruiter serves as a strategic talent acquisition partner responsible for attracting, assessing, and hiring top talent across a variety of professional, management, and leadership roles. This individual leads complex searches, provides consultative support to hiring leaders, develops innovative sourcing strategies, and ensures a best-in-class candidate and hiring manager experience throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
The Lead Recruiter is recognized as a subject matter expert in talent acquisition and plays a key role in driving hiring outcomes, workforce planning initiatives, operational excellence, and continuous process improvement.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Talent Acquisition
- Lead full-cycle recruiting for professional, management, and hard-to-fill positions.
- Partner closely with business leaders to understand workforce needs, organizational priorities, and talent gaps.
- Serve as a trusted advisor throughout the hiring process, providing market intelligence, talent insights, and hiring recommendations.
- Develop and execute recruiting strategies aligned with business objectives and talent demands.
Sourcing & Talent Market Intelligence
- Identify, engage, and attract active and passive talent through multiple sourcing channels.
- Conduct targeted headhunting and direct sourcing for critical and specialized positions.
- Build and maintain robust talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs.
- Leverage industry research, competitor intelligence, and labor market data to inform recruiting strategies.
Candidate Assessment & Selection
- Conduct candidate screenings and interviews to evaluate qualifications, skills, leadership capabilities, and cultural alignment.
- Facilitate interview preparation, candidate calibration, and selection discussions with hiring teams.
- Ensure a consistent, equitable, and high-quality assessment process.
- Guide leaders on talent evaluation and hiring decisions.
Stakeholder Management
- Build strong relationships with hiring managers, HR Business Partners, and business leaders.
- Provide regular updates on pipeline health, market conditions, and recruiting progress.
- Effectively manage expectations and influence decision-making through data-driven recommendations.
- Resolve recruiting challenges and drive solutions that balance speed, quality, and business needs.
Leadership & Team Development
- Mentor and coach recruiters and talent acquisition team members.
- Share recruiting best practices, sourcing techniques, and market insights.
- Support onboarding and development of new recruiters.
- Lead or participate in talent acquisition projects, initiatives, and process improvements.
Compliance & Operational Excellence
- Ensure compliance with employment laws, company policies, and recruiting procedures.
- Maintain accurate documentation and candidate records within recruiting systems.
- Monitor recruiting metrics and identify opportunities to improve hiring efficiency and effectiveness.
- Champion exceptional candidate and hiring manager experiences.
Qualifications:
- Proven success recruiting professional, management, and/or leadership-level talent.
- Strong sourcing and talent identification capabilities.
- Experience partnering directly with senior leaders and hiring managers.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
- Strong project management and organizational capabilities.
- Experience utilizing applicant tracking systems and sourcing tools.
- Experience supporting director-level and above hiring.
- Expertise in workforce planning and talent market analytics.
- Experience mentoring recruiters or leading recruiting initiatives.
- Knowledge of AI-enabled recruiting tools and recruitment marketing strategies.
- Experience within large, complex organizations.
Job Contribution: An experienced professional, recognized as an expert, creatively resolving complex issues with broad and in-depth knowledge. Leads significant projects with strategic autonomy, influencing executive decisions. Mentors less experienced staff, implements long-term plans impacting the organization, and frequently collaborates with senior leadership.
Supervisor: No
Education/Experience: Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA) desired. 5+ years of related experience. Certification is required in some areas.


Our Lead Talent Acquisition jobs earn between $118,800.00 - $178,200.00 USD Annual. Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:
- Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Caregiver Leave
- Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
- Adoption Reimbursement
- Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
- Life and Accidental Death Insurance
- Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- Extensive employee wellness programs
- Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone
Weekly Hours:
40
Time Type:
Regular
Location:
Dallas, Texas
Salary Range:
$118,800.00 - $178,200.00
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