Sr. Client Lead Recruiter

BLUE ORIGIN • West Melbourne, FL

9d • Onsite

About The Position

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! - The Sr. Client Lead Recruiter is a strategic partner to the business team they support. They are responsible for understanding and aligning the organization's talent needs with its goals, inclusive of prioritizing roles, forecasting, and setting benchmarks to successfully fill demand within the requested timeframes. This role involves closing candidates, overseeing the recruitment process, creating reporting, and ensuring a seamless candidate experience. The Sr. Client Lead Recruiter is also tasked with driving talent strategy, managing requisitions, and continuously improving operational excellence within the talent acquisition (TA) team. The Sr. Client Lead is responsible for stakeholder management spanning across business leaders, hiring managers, HR partners, finance, and more. A strong Client Lead demonstrates exceptional closing skills, organization, prioritization, strong verbal and written communication skills, customer obsession, and ability to influence. Special Mentions: Relocation provided Location: Space Coast, FL Requires daily onsite presence (Monday–Friday)

Requirements

• 8+ years of corporate and/or search firm recruiting experience.
• 3+ years managing and influencing VP/Director-level stakeholders
• Proficiency with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and candidate relationship tools; strong MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication, consulting, and negotiation skills; ability to influence, set expectations, and apply constructive pushback.
• Data-driven approach: set benchmarks, track metrics, forecast, and prioritize to meet or exceed customer SLAs.
• Experience supporting Operations functions (e.g. manufacturing, supply chain, facilities) or similar domains
• Proven ability to design multi-channel sourcing strategies and employer brand initiatives
• Ability to architect and scale organization-wide recruiting operating mechanisms with VP/Director stakeholders (e.g., intake/prioritization, headcount allocation, SLAs, governance); deliver executive-ready dashboards and insights to guide portfolio decisions.
• Executive communication: ability to author concise stakeholder memos and recruiting strategy documents (problem framing, data/market analysis, options/risks, recommendation, success metrics) for VP/Director audiences.

Responsibilities

• Owns client relationships with assigned business groups; responsible for customer education, reporting, and escalation management.
• Develops, implements, and oversees the delivery of strategic hiring plans that anticipate current and future needs of their aligned business unit. Inclusive of creating pipeline strategy through market intelligence, events, branding, and multi-channel funnels.
• Monitors and ensures exceptional candidate experience across all roles under their remit: preparation, timely feedback, positive interviewing experience, clear communication.
• Leads offer strategy and closing activities (offer creation, extension, and negotiation).
• Drives the recruiting operating rhythm for their aligned business group: demand planning, reporting cadence, data stewardship, funnel reviews, and forecasting.
• Continuously improves processes, tools, and workflows to increase sped, quality, and compliance of the TA organization. This includes leveraging customer feedback and data analytics to identify improvement opportunities across the entire hiring lifecycle.
• Collaborates with recruiting peers (sourcing recruiters, full-lifecycle recruiters, recruiting coordinators, and process specialists) and partner teams (compensation, HR, legal) to foster positive candidate and customer experiences.

Benefits

• Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion.
• Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation.
• Please check with your recruiter for more details.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed