Manager, Talent Acquisition

CourtAvenue

Manager, Talent Acquisition overseeing full-cycle recruiting for CourtAvenue's U.S. agencies.

Posted 5/10/2026full-timeSan Diego • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $80,000 - $100,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage recruiting for all open roles — full-time, part-time, and contract — across CourtAvenue, Modifly, Gigantic Playground, GTX Solutions, and future agencies.
Partner with Hiring Managers and Ops leaders to develop role descriptions, intake briefs, determine interview loops, confirm budgets, and understand timelines to hire.
Proactively source candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, Handshake, referrals, and your own network — with particular focus on niche creative (UX/CX, UI, Copy), performance media, digital strategy, data, account and engineering-based roles.
Manage every candidate touchpoint in Lever, ensuring all communication, feedback, and decisions live in the ATS.
Hosts recruiter screens, schedules interviews for internal team, and manages interview debriefs across multiple geographies and time zones.
Hold the line on our hiring process: we need someone who can confidently uphold it when timelines get tight.
Navigate our approval layers like COO + CFO sign-off for all open full roles, agency partner approval for comp bands under $150K, and Founders approval for roles over $150K.
Keep compensation discussions, benefits, bonus and conversations regarding any special offer terms within People Ops.
Escalate people issues that may carry legal or company-wide risk to the Director, People Operations.
Referrals are core to how our agencies hire. You'll manage them with care: triaging referrals against open roles, setting realistic timeline expectations with both the referring employee and the candidate.
Work with finance for Employee Referral Bonus approved roles and communicate those internally, as appropriate.
Keep a bench of rock star talent referred to us — from interns to C-suite — separately from active requisitions, so high-quality talent isn't lost when a role doesn't yet exist.
Build and maintain a Contractor Bench of prioritized talent types with pre-negotiated activation rates.
Manage relationships with third-party recruiters, staffing agencies, and external vendors — influencing strategy and ensuring we have the bench depth to staff client work on time.
Optimize use of our recruiting stack — Lever, ADP TotalSource, LinkedIn Recruiter, Handshake, Verified First, DocuSign — and identify opportunities to automate without losing the white-glove candidate experience that defines how we hire.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with demonstrated ownership of niche or hard-to-fill roles.
Hands-on experience managing recruiting through an applicant tracking system (Lever experience strongly preferred).
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to keep distributed hiring teams, candidates, and partners aligned across geographies and time zones.
High sense of urgency; complete work with both speed and accuracy.
Strong organizational instincts and a bias toward systematizing repeatable work.
Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with integrity and professionalism.
A resilience to change; setting a tone of optimism and calm in times of many competing and/or shifting priorities.
Sound judgment on what to escalate, when, and to whom.
Experience recruiting for creative (UX, CX, UI), media, data, and/or digital engineering roles in an agency environment preferred.
Experience in a high-growth, multi-entity, or scaling organization preferred.
Familiarity with ADP TotalSource HRIS a plus.
Experience managing third-party recruiter and staffing agency relationships a plus.
Track record of improving recruiting workflows a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible working hours
Paid time off
Professional development
Contractor engagements meet our 50% margin requirement on billable work.

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Hard Skills & Tools

full-cycle recruitingniche recruitingapplicant tracking systemrecruiting workflowscandidate sourcinginterview schedulingcandidate managementrelationship managementdata analysisperformance media recruiting

Soft Skills

verbal communicationwritten communicationorganizational skillssense of urgencyintegrityprofessionalismresilience to changejudgmentcollaborationadaptability