We are seeking an experienced and results-driven Talent Experience Associate to join our growing Talent Acquisition team. This role is responsible for managing the full recruitment lifecycle for a variety of consulting and corporate positions, with a primary focus on sourcing, attracting, and hiring top-tier talent in a highly competitive market.
The ideal candidate will bring experience from a consulting organization, professional services firm, staffing agency, or executive search environment and possess a proven ability to build strong talent pipelines, partner with hiring leaders, and deliver exceptional candidate experiences. This individual will serve as a trusted advisor to stakeholders while driving recruitment strategies that support business growth and client delivery needs.
Located in Charlotte, NC
Key Responsibilities
Talent Acquisition & Recruitment
- Manage the full-cycle recruiting process from intake meetings through offer acceptance and onboarding.
- Partner closely with hiring managers and business leaders to understand workforce needs, role requirements, and hiring priorities.
- Develop and execute targeted sourcing strategies to identify and engage high-quality candidates across multiple channels.
- Build and maintain robust talent pipelines for technology, operations, finance, and corporate functions, ensuring a consistent flow of qualified candidates to meet hiring demands.
- Utilize LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, professional networks, employee referrals, and direct sourcing techniques to attract passive and active candidates.
- Conduct candidate screening interviews and assess technical skills, competencies, qualifications, and cultural alignment.
- Coordinate interview scheduling and facilitate communication between candidates and hiring teams.
Stakeholder Management
- Serve as a strategic recruiting advisor to hiring managers and leadership teams.
- Provide market intelligence regarding talent availability, competitor hiring trends, compensation benchmarks, and recruiting best practices.
- Facilitate hiring strategy discussions and recommend effective recruitment approaches.
- Ensure timely communication and regular status updates throughout the recruitment process.
Talent Strategy & Employer Branding
- Support employer branding initiatives that strengthen the company's presence in the marketplace.
- Represent the organization at networking events, industry conferences, career fairs, and virtual recruiting events.
- Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives through sourcing and recruiting efforts.
- Contribute to workforce planning and talent acquisition projects that support organizational growth.
Recruiting Operations & Analytics
- Maintain accurate candidate records and recruitment activity within the Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
- Ensure compliance with all employment laws, regulations, and organizational hiring practices.
- Track and report recruiting metrics including time-to-fill, source effectiveness, pipeline health, and candidate conversion rates.
- Continuously identify opportunities to improve recruiting processes, efficiency, and candidate experience.
Requirements
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 3 + years of full-cycle recruiting experience in a consulting firm, professional services environment, staffing agency, executive search firm, or corporate recruiting function.
- Demonstrated success recruiting for professional, technical, and leadership-level positions.
- Strong sourcing and talent engagement skills with experience identifying passive candidates.
- Experience partnering directly with business leaders and hiring managers.
- Excellent communication, relationship-building, and negotiation skills.
- Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and LinkedIn Recruiter.
Preferred
- Experience recruiting for client-facing consulting roles.
- Agency recruiting experience with high-volume requisition management.
- Experience supporting multiple business units or geographic markets simultaneously.
- Knowledge of recruitment marketing, talent mapping, and workforce planning.
- Advanced proficiency with reporting, recruiting analytics, and Microsoft Excel.
Benefits
Why Ember?
We're a boutique management consulting firm trusted by executive leadership teams to lead complex transformation initiatives where execution, change leadership, and strategic partnership matter most. Our consultants don't simply fill roles; they become trusted advisors embedded within some of our clients' most visible enterprise initiatives.
We're intentionally building a different kind of consulting firm, one where talented people have the opportunity to shape client relationships, influence strategy, and grow alongside experienced consulting leaders in a highly collaborative, entrepreneurial environment.
- Competitive compensation
- Medical, dental & vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off
- Long-term career growth with Ember
- Opportunity to support additional strategic consulting engagements as our firm continues to scale