THE OPPORTUNITY
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), headquartered in Daytona Beach, Florida, is seeking a full-time Senior Talent Acquisition Partner to lead full-cycle recruiting across the organization. This position will partner with hiring leaders to attract, assess, and secure high-quality talent for the LPGA’s global workforce. The Senior Talent Acquisition Partner will manage the recruiting process from position intake and sourcing through interviewing, selection, pre-employment screening, offer acceptance, and onboarding. This role will also support employer-branding initiatives, community outreach, and the continued improvement of the candidate and hiring-manager experience.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Lead full-cycle recruitment for positions across multiple departments and organizational levels.
- Partner with hiring leaders to understand staffing needs, position requirements, team dynamics, and ideal
candidate qualifications.
- Develop targeted recruiting strategies and create clear, compelling job descriptions and postings.
- Proactively source candidates through job boards, professional networks, social media, industryassociations, community partnerships, career fairs, and employee referrals.
- Review applications, conduct candidate screenings and interviews, and provide hiring leaders with candidate assessments and recommendations.
- Coordinate interviews and maintain timely, professional communication with candidates and hiring teams throughout the selection process.
- Guide hiring leaders on effective interviewing, candidate evaluation, and consistent selection practices.
- Prepare and extend employment offers and manage negotiations within approved compensation and budget parameters.
- Coordinate pre-employment requirements, including background checks, employment and education verifications, reference checks, and drug screenings.
- Build talent pipelines for current and anticipated workforce needs, with an emphasis on reaching broad and diverse candidate populations.
- Represent the LPGA at career fairs, networking events, community programs, and other recruiting activities.
- Support employer-branding initiatives through LinkedIn, social media, career platforms, and professional partnerships.
- Serve as a subject-matter expert for the applicant tracking system and maintain accurate and confidential recruiting records.
- Track recruiting metrics and recommend improvements to sourcing strategies, recruiting processes, and candidate experience.
- Partner with People & Culture and hiring leaders to support a smooth transition from candidate acceptance through new-hire onboarding.
- Ensure recruiting and hiring practices comply with applicable employment laws, organizational policies,and recordkeeping requirements.
- Complete recruiting-related projects, research, and other assignments as needed.
WHO YOU ARE
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years of progressive full-cycle corporate recruiting or talent acquisition experience.
- Demonstrated experience recruiting positions across multiple departments and organizational levels.
- Experience independently managing recruiting from position intake through sourcing, interviewing,offer negotiation, pre-employment screening, and onboarding.
- Strong knowledge of sourcing platforms, professional networks, social media, and community-based recruiting resources.
- Proficiency with applicant tracking systems and recruiting technology.
- Working knowledge of applicable employment laws and hiring practices.
- Experience supporting a multi-state, global, or geographically dispersed workforce preferred.
- SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR, or talent acquisition certification is a plus.
- Strong communication, relationship-building, organizational, and prioritization skills.
- Ability to manage multiple searches, meet deadlines, maintain confidentiality, and provide a high-quality candidate and hiring-manager experience
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is the world’s premier women’s professional golf organization. Created in 1950 by 13 pioneering female Founders, the LPGA, whose members now represent nearly 40 countries, is the longest-standing professional women’s sports organization. Through the LPGA Tour, the Epson Tour, the LPGA Professionals, and a joint venture with the Ladies European Tour, the LPGA provides female professionals the opportunity to pursue their dreams in the game of golf at the highest level. In addition to its professional tours and teaching accreditation programs, the LPGA features a fully integrated Foundation, which provides best-in-class programming for female golfers through its junior golf programming, and its LPGA Amateurs division, which offers its members playing and learning opportunities around the world.