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Lead Recruiter

Location
Cincinnati, OH
Work type
Full Time
Posted
2026-07-20

Job description

What You’ll Do

Recruiting Strategy, Execution & Partnership
Own full-cycle recruiting for assigned exempt and non-exempt roles across EST03 and its subsidiaries, moving qualified candidates from intake through accepted offer with urgency.
Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, ideal candidate profiles, hiring priorities, and effective recruiting strategies.
Conduct thorough candidate screens, evaluate experience, motivation, communication, performance history, and values alignment, and provide clear recommendations to hiring managers.
Maintain consistent communication with candidates and hiring teams while driving timely feedback, decisions, and next steps.
Quickly identify recruiting challenges, recommend practical solutions, and balance hiring speed with candidate quality and long-term fit.
Sourcing, Pipeline Development & Process Improvement
Proactively hunt for active and passive candidates through LinkedIn, Indeed, job boards, referrals, networking, direct outreach, and other creative sourcing channels.
Build and maintain strong pipelines for recurring, high-priority, and difficult-to-fill roles, particularly within sales, operations, administrative, leadership, and early-career functions.
Track sourcing effectiveness and pipeline health, adjusting outreach strategies when results are not meeting hiring needs.
Manage ATS workflows, job postings, candidate records, recruiting metrics, and reporting with accuracy and consistency.
Take ownership of improving recruiting processes, interview tools, job descriptions, sourcing practices, and the overall candidate and hiring-manager experience.
Requirements
What You’ll Bring

7+ years of recruiting, staffing, talent acquisition, or related experience.
Proven success managing multiple searches, proactively sourcing candidates, and building qualified pipelines in a fast-paced environment.
Strong candidate screening, evaluation, communication, and hiring-manager partnership skills.
Demonstrated ownership, urgency, problem-solving, organization, and follow-through.
Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Communications, Psychology, or a related field.
Experience recruiting revenue-producing sales professionals.
Full-cycle recruiting experience across a variety of exempt and non-exempt roles.
Experience with applicant tracking systems, recruiting metrics, process improvement, and compliant hiring practices.

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