Recruiting Team Lead

About the Position

Recruiting Team Lead

Location: Austin, Texas (Remote)

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

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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.

• Lead, coach, and develop a remote team of recruiters responsible for full-cycle recruiting across multiple skilled trades clients.
• Partner closely with the Client Success Manager to turn client and job-level recruiting strategies into clear priorities, sourcing plans, candidate profiles, and measurable actions for the recruiting team.
• Own visibility across active recruiting pipelines, using sourcing activity, candidate quality, conversion rates, interview progress, follow-up, and hiring outcomes to understand performance across priority openings.
• Diagnose recruiting and hiring funnel problems early, identifying stalled candidates, weak candidate flow, screening issues, pipeline bottlenecks, or other breakdowns and leading the team through corrective action.
• Coach recruiters using recruiting metrics, pipeline data, and observed performance, providing specific feedback and following through until expectations are met and performance improves.
• Protect candidate quality by ensuring recruiters effectively evaluate experience, qualifications, communication, motivation, compensation expectations, availability, and overall fit before client submission.
• Bring pipeline data, candidate feedback, and market insights to strategy discussions, recommending changes when the evidence shows an existing recruiting approach is not producing results.
• Work cross-functionally with Client Success, recruiting operations, sourcing, support, and leadership to remove hiring roadblocks, clarify ownership, and keep client hiring priorities moving forward.

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Requirements

• Three or more years of recruiting or talent acquisition experience
• Proven full-cycle recruiting experience
• Strong understanding of sourcing, screening, candidate evaluation, pipeline management, and hiring funnels
• Experience mentoring, coaching, or leading recruiters strongly preferred
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving ability
• Ability to analyze recruiting data and diagnose performance problems
• Ability to lead a remote team and maintain accountability
• Ability to work closely with a Client Success Manager and execute established client and job-level strategy
• Strong organization and follow-through across multiple clients and openings
• Reliable internet connection with a backup plan for power or internet interruptions

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Nice to Have

• Experience recruiting for skilled trades, construction, home services, or other blue-collar positions
• 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
• Experience working inside a fast-moving, high-accountability company

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We Offer

• $45,000 to $55,000 annual salary, depending on experience, recruiting expertise, and demonstrated leadership ability
• Fully remote work environment
• Blue Cross Blue Shield medical insurance with strong plan coverage
• Flexible PTO, typically 12 to 15 days
• Standard company holidays
• 12 weeks of maternity leave
• Direct access to leadership and the opportunity to take on greater responsibility as the company grows
• A results-driven environment where strong performance earns trust, ownership, and growth opportunities

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About the Company

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.

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Hiring Expectations: Apply today, complete a quick phone screening, and get ready for an interview with our team to discuss your goals and experience.