Director, Talent Acquisition

1. Job Overview

Wider Circle is a mission-driven healthcare organization working to improve health outcomes for older adults and complex populations by addressing social and clinical barriers to care. Through trusted relationships and community-based support, Wider Circle partners with health plans and local organizations to help members navigate healthcare, stay engaged in care, and live healthier lives.

Why Join Us:

• Wider Circle's work sits at the intersection of community, health equity, and social care.
• Remote-first culture with periodic travel to our growth markets.
• The chance to build something that matters — and to see the direct impact of your work on communities across the country.

Role Purpose:

As the first Director-level leader of Talent Acquisition, you will elevate the recruiting function across all business lines and support functions during a phase of rapid headcount growth. You will hire and develop the right people, build sourcing infrastructure, and keep the Talent Acquisition function running without sacrificing quality or candidate experience. You will grow, manage, and develop a team of Talent Acquisition Specialists, leveraging both employee hires and 1099 recruiters to scale. You will be a steward of Wider Circle’s culture, a gatekeeper of talent standards, and a builder and defender of the employer brand by translating the organization’s "Love, Learn, Grow" ethos into compelling candidate narratives and sourcing content.

2. Key Responsibilities

• Recruiting Operations & Quality – Lead day-to-day recruiting execution across all hiring tracks, ensuring process integrity through interview quality audits, 100% scorecard completion, and consistent candidate and hiring manager experience standards.
• Set individual targets, run daily team huddles, weekly pipeline reviews, and coach toward consistent monthly output.
• Pipeline Performance & Metrics – Own Time to Fill (TTF) reporting and accountability — establishing credible benchmarks by role, hitting TTF goals for 80%+ of roles, and maintaining candidate satisfaction rates that reflect a best-in-class candidate experience.
• Strategic Sourcing & Community Partnerships – Build a sustainable Community Health Worker (CHW) talent pipeline by mapping the competitive landscape and developing sourcing strategies that make Wider Circle an employer of choice.
• Role Clarity & Market Competitiveness – Partner with business leaders to keep job descriptions fresh and develop compelling sourcing pitches — ensuring Wider Circle stands out on both the "why" and the "what" in candidate communication.
• Operational Alignment – Drive clean process and people hand-offs between TA, L&D, IT, Finance and the business.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with hiring managers, directors and VPs who are the stakeholders of the Talent Acquisition team’s work.

3. Required Qualifications

• No specific education degree requirements stated in the source.

4. Required Skills

• 7-10 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with at least 3 years of team leadership and at least 3 years in healthcare, human services, or community health settings.
• Led a high-volume recruiting team that sustained 100+ hires per month over an extended period, and preferably led the team through a period of rapid growth.
• Recruited Community Health Workers, frontline healthcare workers, or allied health professionals — and understand what makes them accept an offer.
• Managed a team of recruiters, including 1099 or contract recruiters, and know how to drive accountability without micromanaging.
• Built sourcing infrastructure, playbooks, and dashboards from scratch — not inherited them.
• Communicated clearly and directly with leadership, even when the news is a pipeline risk or a missed target.
• An Indeed power user who understands how to write, test, and optimize job postings for hourly and professional roles in competitive markets.
• A systems thinker who tracks leading indicators and fixes process problems before they become volume problems.
• Mission-driven; Wider Circle’s work in community, health equity, and social care should excite the candidate.

5. Preferred Qualifications

• Recruiting experience across 50 states.
• Familiarity with the community health workforce landscape.
• Experience with the Workable ATS platform.
• Experience in a start-up environment scaling a TA function during a period of rapid company growth (doubling or tripling headcount).
• Background in managing CHW, physician or clinical recruiter networks.

6. Experience Requirements

• 7-10 years of full-cycle recruiting experience.

7. Additional Job Information

• Employment type: Not explicitly stated in the source.
• Work mode: Remote-first culture with periodic travel to growth markets (Remote-first).
• Notice period: Not specified in the source.
• Locations provided by employer: Houston, TX; Harris County, TX; Texas, United States.
• Compensation and benefits noted by employer: Base pay range of $115,000-$130,000; annual incentive bonus; comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k) plan; generous paid time off including your birthday off and 9 company holidays.
• How to apply: Use the employer application link provided in the original posting (Target Job Apply URL).