Lead Recruiter

Job Title: Recruiting Lead

Location: Fountain Valley, CA (100% Onsite)

Employment Type: Temp to Hire

Pay: $43-$48/hr.

Schedule: Monday-Friday | 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Summary

The Recruiting Lead serves as a senior recruiting and talent acquisition expert, supporting enterprise-level hiring initiatives while acting as a trusted advisor to recruiters, HR partners, and hiring managers. This role leads recruiting projects, improves recruiting processes, ensures compliance, and delivers high-quality hiring outcomes with minimal supervision. The position combines hands-on full-cycle recruiting with strategic insight, reporting, and operational leadership without direct supervisory responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a recruiting subject matter expert, providing guidance, best practices, and coaching to recruiters, HR partners, and hiring managers
• Lead and coordinate recruiting initiatives, including process improvements, training programs, and system or reporting enhancements
• Manage full-cycle recruiting from requisition approval through onboarding across a variety of roles
• Ensure recruiting standards are consistently met, including:
  • Job postings completed within 36 hours of final approval
  • Strategic use of internal and external postings
  • Proper coordination of relocation processes, approvals, and budgets
  • Completion of organizational announcements no later than the employee's start date
  • Accurate maintenance of recruiting trackers and status reports