Recruitment Team Lead

We are seeking an exceptionally talented Recruitment Team Lead to join our growing talent acquisition team.

This is a senior recruiting role with operational leadership responsibility. The Recruitment Team Lead owns the delivery engine of Janea's talent acquisition function ensuring that active consulting hiring needs are filled with exceptional speed and quality. You will lead a pod of recruiters, drive intake quality, o...

This is not a coordinator role — it is an ownership role. You will be expected to set and maintain the standard for recruiting excellence across your pod, manage stakeholder relationships with hiring managers, and ensure the team is always operating at the frontier of what great recruiting looks like.

Own the end-to-end recruiting delivery process for all active consulting
Lead and coach a pod of 2–3 recruiters, setting clear expectations and maintaining quality standards
Drive intake quality — own the intake process, ensure briefs are thorough, and push back constructively when role definitions are unclear or unrealistic
Manage pipeline health across all active reqs: monitor conversion rates, identify bottlenecks, and adjust prioritisation accordingly
Own the hiring manager relationship for active searches — regular updates, feedback loops, and expectation management
Coordinate with the Sourcing Lead to ensure sourcing capacity is allocated effectively across active reqs
Track and report reactive hiring metrics: time-to-fill, time-to-offer, offer acceptance rate, stage conversion
Partner with the Recruiting Team Lead – Future Talent to ensure candidates who don't convert on active reqs are appropriately routed to the talent pool

 

5+ years of technical recruiting experience, with at least 2 years in a lead or senior individual contributor capacity
Strong track record filling software engineering roles at a senior or specialist level, ideally in a consulting or services environment
Experience managing a req load across multiple stakeholders simultaneously
Demonstrated ability to run structured intake processes and hold hiring managers accountable to them
Proven recruiter coaching or mentoring experience
Highly organised with excellent prioritisation skills — able to manage competing demands without dropping quality
Strong candidate experience instincts — understands that how we treat candidates reflects on the Janea brand

 
Experience recruiting for a consulting firm, staffing business, or high-volume tech employer
Comfort with recruiting data — able to track and present pipeline conversion rates, time-to-fill, and offer metrics
Experience working cross-functionally with sourcing teams and coordinating shared resources