Who you are
- 5+ years of progressive recruiting and/or Human Resources experience, with significant hands-on full-cycle recruiting experience
- Demonstrated success recruiting technical, engineering, product, operations, or other specialized talent
- Strong proactive sourcing and pipeline-building capabilities
- Experience partnering directly with hiring managers throughout the recruiting lifecycle
- Practical experience with People Operations and employee lifecycle processes
- Strong communication, organization, and stakeholder-management skills
- Sound judgment and ability to appropriately handle sensitive and confidential information
- Ability to independently manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment
- Comfortable operating in an environment where processes and priorities continue to evolve
- Experience in a startup, scale-up, technology, robotics, engineering, manufacturing, or similarly complex organization
- Experience with HRIS and ATS platforms such as ADP Workforce Now, UKG, Lever, or comparable systems
- Exposure to employee relations, performance management, compensation, or talent programs
- Experience coordinating employment-based immigration
- Experience improving recruiting or People Operations processes and systems
What the job involves
- Dexterity is seeking an experienced Senior Talent & People Operations Partner to join our People team during an important stage of growth
- The primary focus of this role is Talent Acquisition. You will own full-cycle recruiting for priority roles across engineering, product, operations, customer-facing, and corporate functions, partnering closely with hiring managers to identify, attract, assess, and hire exceptional talent
- We're looking for someone who brings more than recruiting expertise.
- The ideal candidate has worked in a fast-moving environment where they've also gained practical experience across People Operations and the employee lifecycle
- As capacity and business needs allow, you'll help support broader People initiatives and day-to-day HR needs
- This is a hands-on role for someone who takes ownership, works independently, and is comfortable moving between recruiting priorities and broader People needs
- Own full-cycle recruiting for priority roles from intake through offer
- Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, develop search strategies, assess talent, and drive hiring decisions
- Proactively source and build pipelines for technical, specialized, and difficult-to-fill roles
- Manage recruiting pipelines, hiring velocity, aging requisitions, offer activity, and other key recruiting metrics
- Deliver a high-quality candidate experience throughout the hiring process
- Help improve recruiting processes, interview practices, and hiring-manager effectiveness
- Partner on workforce planning and upcoming hiring priorities
- Support internal mobility and other talent initiatives as needed
- Support employee lifecycle processes, including onboarding, transfers, promotions, leaves, and offboarding
- Respond to routine employee and manager questions related to People programs, policies, benefits, and processes
- Support HRIS administration, employee data, reporting, and documentation
- Help identify and improve inefficient or manual People processes
- Assist with employee relations, performance, and manager-support matters in partnership with the Director, HR Business Partner
- Support compensation, performance, talent, and employee-development programs as needed
- Assist with immigration coordination and work-authorization tracking in partnership with employees and outside counsel
- Partner on other People initiatives based on business priorities and team capacity
- Within your first year, you will have;
- Taken ownership of priority recruiting and helped improve hiring velocity
- Built proactive pipelines for critical and difficult-to-fill positions
- Established strong partnerships with hiring managers
- Improved the consistency and candidate experience of our recruiting process
- Become a reliable resource for broader People Operations needs
- Taken ownership of recurring People processes and projects that create additional capacity across the team