At Near, we help top talent in Latin America find remote roles with US companies. Our mission is to create better lives by fostering a remote work culture that transcends borders.
About Our Client
Our client is a fast-growing home energy solutions company based in the US, focused on providing high-quality solar and home efficiency services. They operate in a dynamic, high-volume environment and are committed to delivering exceptional customer experience. The team is expanding its operations and is looking for a strategic recruitment leader to build and scale a world-class hiring function.
About the Role
We're looking for a Director of Recruitment to design, build, and scale the company’s recruiting function across skilled trades, field operations, and sales hiring. This person will own the recruitment strategy, processes, systems, and team development needed to support company growth.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on recruiting leader with experience building scalable hiring operations, implementing recruiting systems, improving processes, and successfully hiring high-volume and specialized talent. This role will partner closely with leadership, sales, and operations teams to forecast hiring needs and ensure the company can attract and retain top talent.
What You'll Do
- Design and implement a scalable, repeatable recruitment process from sourcing through onboarding handoff.
- Build and optimize the recruiting tech stack, including ATS, sourcing platforms, texting, and scheduling tools.
- Establish and track recruiting metrics including time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, offer acceptance rates, and retention metrics.
- Create standardized interview processes, job scorecards, and hiring frameworks to improve consistency and quality.
- Partner with sales and operations leaders on workforce planning, headcount forecasting, and hiring strategies.
- Build proactive talent pipelines through job boards, trade schools, referrals, partnerships, and other sourcing channels.
- Strengthen employer branding and candidate experience to attract skilled trades and sales talent in competitive markets.
- Lead recruiting efforts for critical roles, including field, sales, and leadership positions.
- Identify opportunities to improve recruiting efficiency, quality, and scalability.
- Build, mentor, and eventually lead a team of recruiters and coordinators as hiring volume grows.
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years of experience in recruitment/talent acquisition, including 3+ years in a leadership or team management role.
- Proven experience building, improving, or scaling recruiting functions in high-growth environments.
- Strong track record recruiting both high-volume roles (sales, trades, field operations) and strategic hires.
- Experience in home services, solar, construction, HVAC, electrical, or similar industries is strongly preferred.
- Hands-on experience implementing and optimizing ATS and recruiting technology.
- Strong understanding of recruiting metrics and data-driven decision-making.
- Ability to build processes and systems, not just execute existing workflows.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional leadership skills.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
Preferred Background
- Experience recruiting skilled trades, electricians, technicians, or field service professionals.
- Experience building recruiting teams or mentoring recruiters.
- Experience managing recruiting operations across multiple markets or locations.
- Experience improving employer brand and candidate engagement strategies.
- Strong knowledge of compliance-focused hiring practices.
What’s in It for You?
- Competitive compensation (negotiable based on experience).
- 100% remote work as an independent contractor.
- Opportunity to build and lead a recruiting function from the ground up.
- Direct impact on company growth and hiring strategy.
- Long-term opportunity to grow into a senior leadership role.
- Collaborative and fast-growing U.S. company environment.
Working Hours: Monday–Friday, generally 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM (based on hiring needs; flexibility is expected to accommodate candidate availability outside standard business hours).
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