Senior Director, Talent Acquisition

GeneDx

Senior Director of Talent Acquisition at GeneDx leading transformation in hiring strategy and team performance. Driving adoption of technology and enhancing employer brand experience.

Posted 4/16/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $200,000 - $230,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the enterprise Talent Acquisition strategy aligned to growth plans; translate business priorities into workforce and hiring strategy across functions and levels.
Elevate TA into a strategic, metrics-driven business partner by strengthening stakeholder operating rhythms (intake, calibration, scorecards, decisioning), building trusted relationships, and using dashboards/KPIs to diagnose bottlenecks and drive continuous improvement.
Lead, coach, and scale a high-performing TA team and operating model —set standards and quality bars, clarify roles, and rebalance capacity away from low-value work toward proactive sourcing, candidate engagement, and high-signal assessment.
Architect and operationalize the Talent technology ecosystem (ATS/CRM, automation, analytics, assessments, sourcing tools), including enterprise change management, enablement, documentation, and governance to ensure scalable, consistent, auditable execution and measurable adoption/ROI.
Personally lead critical senior and executive searches (SVP → C-suite) using advanced sourcing, networking, assessment, and outreach/closing playbooks.
Build proactive external partnerships and pipeline programs that expand candidate reach and quality (e.g., hackathons, diversity-in-tech initiatives, universities/bootcamps, internships/fellowships for genetic counselors, professional associations, and community ecosystems).
Own employer brand and the end-to-end hiring experience by bringing the GeneDx story to life across touchpoints (outreach through offer/onboarding handoffs) and improving candidate and hiring manager experience/NPS while maintaining speed and rigor.
Lead cross-functional hiring effectiveness initiatives to remove blockers, streamline decision-making, shorten cycle time, and protect candidate experience.
Own vendor strategy and procurement outcomes across Talent tech and assessment partners; negotiate, rationalize spend, and ensure adoption and ROI.

Requirements

What you’ll need

12+ years of Talent Acquisition/People Ops experience with at least 5-10 years leading teams and Talent transformations.
Proven track record in architecting and delivering major Talent Technology transformations, including adoption governance, analytics, and measurable productivity gains.
Strong capability in TA operating model design (roles/capacity, intake, funnels, assessment, governance, workforce planning partnership).
Hands-on experience leading executive searches (SVP → C-suite) with creative sourcing and high-touch processes such as modern sourcing stacks (Boolean + AI sourcing tools, candidate rediscovery, talent communities).
Exceptional project management skills — deliver complex, cross-functional projects on time and with impact.
Deep strength in root-cause problem solving and operational simplification.
Metrics-first mindset: comfortable building and using dashboards, running experiments, and driving decisions from data.
Change management experience: You can design adoption plans, training, and governance that create lasting behavior change.
Highly organized, decisive, and comfortable operating in a hyper-fast environment.
Excellent communicator and trusted advisor to senior leaders; proven ability to influence without relying on authority.
Passion for building high-performing teams and creating clear processes and structure without slowing speed.
Preferred but not required:
Experience in healthcare, diagnostics, biotech, or other regulated industries.
Background in employer brand or candidate experience transformation.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Paid Time Off (PTO)
Health, Dental, Vision and Life insurance
401k Retirement Savings Plan
Employee Discounts
Voluntary benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

Talent AcquisitionPeople OperationsTalent Technology transformationsTA operating model designexecutive searchesBoolean sourcingAI sourcing toolsproject managementroot-cause problem solvingchange management

Soft Skills

metrics-first mindsethighly organizeddecisiveexcellent communicatortrusted advisorinfluence without authoritypassion for building teamscreating clear processesoperational simplificationstakeholder relationship building