Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

This is not a strategy-only or team-management role. You will remain directly involved throughout the candidate journey, including sourcing, outreach, interview coordination, scheduling, assessment, and closing. You will earn influence through the quality of your delivery, the strength of your advice, and your ability to align hiring teams around clear, evidence-based decisions.

Responsibilities
Lead full-cycle recruitment across a flexible portfolio of functions, locations, and seniority levels, prioritized against CAIS's most important business needs.
Take ownership of approved roles from initial intake through accepted offer, including candidate communication, scheduling, assessment, offer management, and closing.
Support business leader to translate business requirements into clear role briefs, candidate profiles, sourcing strategies, scorecards, and structured selection processes.
Build and maintain direct talent pipelines through proactive sourcing, market mapping, referrals, and long-term relationship development.
Provide leaders with market intelligence on talent availability, compensation, competitor activity, and likely hiring constraints.
Host role-alignment meetings with hiring managers and confirmed interview panels before searches move into full delivery.
Design effective interview plans and assessment methods that support fair, consistent, and evidence-based decisions.
Deliver practical interviewer training and coach interview debriefs, helping teams distinguish evidence from intuition or familiarity.
Use CAIS's recruiting technology and AI tools effectively and partner with Recruitment Operations on ATS workflows, automation, reporting, and process monitoring.
Evaluate emerging recruiting and AI technologies and make evidence-based recommendations on where new tools could improve hiring outcomes or candidate experience.

Qualifications
Substantial in-house recruiting experience, with evidence of delivering complex and business-critical searches.
Experience in asset management, wealth management, alternative investments, fintech, or a related financial-services environment.
Demonstrated success managing a varied portfolio across different functions and seniority levels at the same time.
Recruiting experience within one or more of: Operations, Client Service, Sales, Marketing, Technology, or Product.
Exceptional direct-sourcing, talent-mapping, and candidate-engagement capability.
Evidence of delivering difficult searches without defaulting to external agencies.
Strong judgement and the credibility to advise, influence, and constructively challenge senior leaders.
Strong command of applicant tracking systems, sourcing platforms, recruiting analytics, and candidate-management tools.
Genuine curiosity about AI and emerging recruiting technology, combined with the discipline to evaluate tools critically.
Comfort operating as a hands-on individual contributor, including personally managing candidate communication and interview scheduling.