Senior Director, Talent Acquisition

Thanks for your interest in Success Academy! Running a large, fast-growing, and high-performing network of public charter schools takes a village - families, children, teachers, staff and faculty, advocates, and supporters alike. We are growing fast in New York and expanding to Florida, and we would love to welcome you to our community! We work tirelessly every day to ensure children have access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education regardless of zip code or economic status. When you join SA, you play a part in giving every student who walks through our doors a fair shot at reaching his or her potential. We now need a results-obsessed Senior Director, Talent Acquisition to run the day-to-day of our recruiting org outside the academic teacher, executive search, and TA operations & systems engines. We run TA like a high-performing sales organization — daily activity targets, pipeline and conversion management, and relentless coaching to the number — and we are looking for a leader who has thrived in exactly that kind of environment. The Role Reporting to the Head of Talent Acquisition, who will continue to lead academic teacher recruitment, executive search, and TA operations & systems, the Senior Director, Talent Acquisition will lead all of Success Academy's non-instructional recruiting, corporate recruiting, and arts & athletics recruiting — and run it as one high-performing, metrics-driven operation. You lead through a bench of Leads and managers, hold your teams to hiring goals, and personally set the pace and energy of the floor. This is a hands-on, high-energy operating role — not an advisory or process-design seat. The right person leads from the front, is energized by targets and metrics, and knows how to get discretionary effort out of a fast-moving team. You will inherit established teams and stand up new ones, growing the team as Success Academy grows. What You Will Own You will lead several recruiting teams — roughly 20+ recruiters and managers through a bench of 3–5 Leads — spanning: Non-instructional recruiting — full-cycle recruiters who source and hire school operations, registrar, data, and other non-teaching roles. Corporate recruiting — full-cycle recruiting for the corporate office. Arts & athletics recruiting — specialized hiring for music, chess, dance, theater, and athletics roles - to name a few. Florida expansion — partner with TA leadership to build the Florida TA Team and operations. Key Responsibilities Own day-to-day leadership, execution, and results across non-instructional, corporate, and arts & athletics — and represent the function when the Head is out. Run your teams like a high-performing sales organization: set daily and weekly activity targets, monitor pipeline, conversion, and quality-of-hire metrics in real time, and coach Leads and recruiters to the number. Lead, hire, and develop a bench of recruiting Leads and managers; set a high performance bar, give direct feedback, and act quickly on both top performers and under-performance. Forecast hiring demand and set capacity, headcount, and coverage plans; reallocate resources across your teams to hit aggressive volume goals. Partner with TA leadership to build the Florida TA Team and operations. Optimize and streamline the end-to-end recruiting process to improve candidate experience, reduce corporate time-to-hire, and raise the quality of hire — moving fast and iterating. Own vendor and agency relationships and drive agency reduction. Partner with the Head of TA and the TA strategy/operations function to turn enterprise plans into weekly results. Build strong, credible relationships with school and corporate hiring managers, People partners, and senior leaders to align on needs and deliver. Who You Are — Required Experience 8–10+ years in recruiting / talent acquisition, including 4+ years leading recruiters through managers in a high-volume, metrics-intensive environment. A track record leading a high-velocity recruiting engine in on…