Talent Acquisition Manager

Job description

### **About Profound Research** Profound Research partners with community physicians to offer clinical trials as a therapeutic option for their patients. We handle all infrastructure, regulatory compliance, and administrative operations so physicians can focus on patient care. Our model gives patients access to the newest therapies while maintaining the trusted patient-physician relationship. **Our Mission:** Improving lives by providing advanced therapeutic options **Our Vision:** Creating the absolute best patient-physician experience in clinical research **Our Values:** - **Compassion:** We prioritize the patient-physician relationship, ensuring every interaction is service-oriented and patient-centered - **Urgency:** We work hard and practice selflessness, acting swiftly and decisively to meet the needs of our patients, partners, and colleagues - **Solution Orientation:** We embrace challenges with a positive mindset, communicate directly, and identify and implement effective solutions with efficiency - **Excellence:** We insist on excellence, holding ourselves accountable and empowering each other to deliver best-in-class service while maintaining the highest ethical and scientific standards Why This Role Exists The Talent Acquisition Manager owns how we attract, assess, and hire talent across Profound. As Profound Research grows, our ability to consistently attract and hire exceptional people will be critical to building strong teams and delivering on our mission. This is a hands-on builder role for someone who is as comfortable recruiting great people as they are improving the systems and practices behind the work. You will partner closely with leaders by understanding what their teams need, bringing perspective on the talent market, and helping them make thoughtful hiring decisions. At the same time, you will continue building a talent acquisition function that can grow with the organization, creating the right amount of structure, developing stronger talent pipelines, and finding better ways to work as our needs evolve. This role is a strong fit for someone who sees talent acquisition as more than filling open positions. You are curious about what makes an organization successful, willing to challenge an approach that is not working, and energized by the opportunity to build while you execute. What You’ll Do Build a Scalable Talent Acquisition Function - Own and continuously improve Profound’s talent acquisition approach, creating practical systems and processes that support quality, consistency, and growth without unnecessary complexity - Anticipate how recruiting needs will evolve as the organization grows and build the infrastructure, tools, and practices needed to support that growth - Evaluate and improve how we use recruiting technology, external partners, sourcing support, and other resources to create an effective and flexible TA model Recruit Exceptional Talent - Lead full-cycle recruiting across the organization, adapting sourcing and recruiting strategies based on the role, talent market, and business need - Build strong talent pipelines for recurring, difficult-to-fill, and strategically important roles while remaining hands-on in sourcing, assessment, and candidate engagement - Deliver a thoughtful candidate experience that reflects Profound’s culture, values, and expectations while maintaining appropriate urgency and a high bar for talent Partner With Leaders to Make Better Hiring Decisions - Serve as a trusted talent advisor to hiring managers, helping them define what success requires and translate business needs into effective recruiting strategies - Bring external market perspective, challenge assumptions when needed, and help leaders make thoughtful decisions about candidate profiles, assessment, and selection - Strengthen hiring capability across Profound by creating clear expectations and giving managers the coaching, tools, and support they need to hire well Use Talent Insights to Drive Better Outcomes - Maintain a clear view of current and anticipated hiring demand, recruiting capacity, and talent-market conditions so risks and constraints can be addressed early - Use meaningful recruiting data and patterns to understand what is working, diagnose challenges, and recommend changes that improve hiring outcomes - Make thoughtful recommendations about where internal resources, sourcing support, agencies, or other flexible capacity will create the greatest value ### What You Bring Essential Qualifications - 6+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience, with strong full-cycle recruiting capabilities across sourcing, candidate assessment, hiring manager partnership, and closing candidates across a variety of roles - Experience helping build, improve, or scale talent acquisition practices in a growing organization, rather than only operating within established recruiting systems - Strong business judgment and the ability to translate a leader’s hiring need into a thoughtful recruiting strategy, including the confidence to challenge assumptions and recommend a different approach when needed - A builder mindset with the ability to identify what is not working, develop practical solutions, and create enough structure to help the organization scale without adding unnecessary complexity - Comfort operating in a fast-changing environment, shifting priorities when needed while maintaining ownership, follow through, and a high standard for the work - Strong communication and relationship building skills, with the ability to earn trust with candidates and leaders while being clear, candid, and solutions oriented Preferred Qualifications