Associate Director of Talent Acquisition (Remote US)

About this role

ABOUT DIRECTIVE Directive Consulting is the leading B2B marketing agency for brands that are serious about the metrics that matter most. With over a decade of expertise and 420+ B2B brands under our belt, we've earned our reputation on real outcomes. We run through 3 divisions: Performance, Communications, and Commerce, all wired to share intelligence and answer to revenue. That system spans everything from Paid Media and Content Marketing, to PR and Paid Social, to Marketplace and Lifecycle Marketing.

Tying it all together is our methodology, DiscoverabilityOS™, which aligns brand and demand to guide your ICP to choose you across every decision point. We move fast. We think boldly. We hire people who challenge the status quo, build campaigns worth talking about, and make bold brands impossible to ignore. If you live for performance, love solving hard problems, and want your work to actually mean something, you'll fit right in.

ROLE SUMMARY The Associate Director of Talent Acquisition is a strategic, hands-on leader responsible for building world-class teams across Directive while leading and developing a high-performing recruiting team. This is a player-coach role. You'll manage a small team of recruiters while carrying your own portfolio of critical and executive-level searches. You'll partner closely with leaders across the business to develop hiring strategies, improve recruiting operations and ensure an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience from beginning to end.

As the primary owner of our Applicant Tracking System (Ashby), you'll drive recruiting operations, reporting, process optimization, interview excellence, and data-driven decision making to continually improve how we hire. You are passionate about building exceptional teams, coaching recruiters, creating scalable hiring processes, and raising the bar for talent across the organization. This position reports to the Head of People Operations and works remotely.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES TALENT ACQUISITION LEADERSHIP - Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of Talent Acquisition Partners, creating a high-performance recruiting organization - Conduct regular pipeline reviews, hiring strategy sessions, and recruiter coaching to improve performance and hiring outcomes - Establish recruiting goals, priorities, and team performance metrics while ensuring consistent execution - Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-accountability recruiting culture FULL-CYCLE RECRUITING - Personally manage a portfolio of high-impact and executive-level searches across the business - Lead full-cycle recruiting from intake through offer negotiation and close - Partner with senior leadership to define hiring strategies for critical and hard-to-fill roles - Conduct structured interviews and assess candidates for technical capability, leadership potential, and alignment with Directive's values - Build proactive talent pipelines for future hiring needs through networking, sourcing, referrals, and market mapping - If the recruitment team is backed up on their roles, you are ready to jump in and help.