About the Position

Lead Recruiter - Austin, Texas

Salary: $45,000 - $55,000 per year

Responsibilities

Yellowstone Local helps plumbing, HVAC, electrical, and construction companies hire the people who keep their businesses running. This role is for a proven recruiter who is ready to lead others, raise the standard, and take responsibility for recruiting performance across multiple clients.

You will lead a team of recruiters, coach their performance, maintain visibility across their pipelines, and ensure the recruiting strategy produces qualified candidates and hires. You will still stay close enough to the work to diagnose problems, inspect quality, and step in when the team needs leadership.

Key Responsibilities

Recruiter Leadership and Development: Lead, coach, and develop a team of recruiters responsible for skilled trades hiring across multiple clients.
Recruiting Performance: Take responsibility for the recruiting performance of your team and diagnose the cause when hiring results slow down.
Strategy Execution: Turn the Client Success Manager’s client and job-level strategy into clear recruiting priorities, actions, and standards.
Pipeline Accountability: Maintain visibility across the team’s recruiting pipelines and identify stalled candidates or weak candidate flow early.
Candidate Quality: Protect the quality of every candidate presented to a client and coach recruiters when their evaluation standards are too weak or inconsistent.
Team Standards: Create consistency across the recruiting team and help turn strong individual recruiting practices into repeatable team standards.
Cross-functional Execution: Work closely with Client Success, recruiting operations, sourcing, support, and leadership to remove hiring roadblocks and improve results.

Requirements

Experience: Three or more years of recruiting or talent acquisition experience.
Skills: Proven full-cycle recruiting experience, strong understanding of sourcing, screening, candidate evaluation, pipeline management, and hiring funnels.
Preferred: Experience mentoring, coaching, or leading recruiters, experience recruiting for skilled trades, construction, home services, or other blue-collar positions.

Nice to Have

Experience managing recruiting across multiple clients, locations, or job openings.
Experience using HubSpot, Recruitee, Slack, and Google Workspace.
Experience using AI tools to improve recruiting execution and team productivity.
Experience using recruiting metrics and pipeline data to coach performance.

We Offer

Competitive salary range of $45,000 to $55,000 annually.
Blue Cross Blue Shield medical insurance with strong plan coverage.
Flexible PTO, typically 12 to 15 days.
Standard company holidays.
Twelve weeks of maternity leave.
Fully remote work environment.

About the Company

Yellowstone Local is building a high-performance, high-accountability team. We set a high standard, communicate directly, move quickly, and take ownership of outcomes. We give capable people meaningful responsibility, direct access to leadership, room to make decisions, and the opportunity to grow as the company grows.

Yellowstone Local is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

How to Apply

Submit your resume and complete the screening process. Qualified applicants will be invited to interview with our leadership team. Be prepared to discuss specific recruiting outcomes you have produced, recruiters you have helped improve, difficult performance problems you have addressed, and how you diagnose a recruiting pipeline that is not producing hires.

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