Manager of Professional Talent Acquisition

Position Summary

At GeoStabilization International (GSI), we solve some of the toughest infrastructure challenges in North America — stabilizing slopes, preventing landslides, and protecting communities from natural hazards. Our engineers and field experts work in extreme conditions to deliver fast, safe, and lasting solutions.

We’re looking for a Manager of Professional Talent Acquisition — a high-impact recruiting leader who can attract top technical, professional and executive talent while elevating the performance of our recruiting team.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-moving, results-driven culture and can develop the systems, discipline, talent pipelines and team capabilities needed to fill mission-critical roles with speed and precision.

You’ll personally own leadership searches while coaching a small team of recruiters supporting corporate, engineering and construction PMO roles. You’ll set standards for sourcing quality, interviewing discipline, and talent calibration across the business.

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, mentor, and coach a team of 2–3 recruiters and an offshore sourcing team while supporting professional and leadership hiring.
• Set clear performance expectations around speed-to-slate, speed-to-submit, and offer acceptance rates, driving accountability through weekly pipeline reviews and continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with the Head of Talent Acquisition to design and execute strategies that raises new hire levels of intelligence, problem solving ability, initiative and humility.
• Build and manage recruiter playbooks, interview frameworks, and scorecards to ensure consistent selection quality.
• Drive adoption of structured interviews and data integrity in our ATS, ensuring every hire meets GSI’s performance and leadership potential standards.

Hands-On Recruiting Execution

• Personally recruit for executive level roles in multiple functions.
• Manage college recruitment programs, creating high-pull-through internships that bring exceptional engineering and project management talent into the business.
• Partner directly with business leaders to define success profiles, role requirements, and hiring priorities.
• Source and engage top 10% talent through LinkedIn Recruiter, GEM, industry networks, and referrals — with precision targeting and fast-cycle follow-up.
• Manage the full recruitment life cycle from intake to close, ensuring exceptional candidate experience and hiring manager alignment.

Operational Excellence, Analytics & Insights

• Track and report recruiting KPIs: speed-to-slate, source-of-hire, quality of hire, and conversion rates.
• Use various KPI and operational data to discover, investigate and launch improvements in areas of opportunity in collaboration with the team, customers and other stakeholders. Partner with Recruitment Marketing to align brand messaging, job postings, and candidate engagement campaigns.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring leaders, bringing market intelligence, data insights, and recruiting best practices.
• Continuously evaluate tools, technology, and processes to improve recruiter efficiency and candidate quality.
• Serve as a culture carrier for the TA function — modeling professionalism, ownership, and data-driven decision-making.

Required:

• 6–10 years of progressive recruiting experience, including technical or engineering recruiting in construction, geotechnical, or infrastructure industries.
• Minimum 2 years leading or mentoring recruiters, sources, or talent specialists.
• Proven success filling hard-to-hire technical and leadership roles under tight timelines and working with top leaders in the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple requisitions and projects while maintaining quality and speed.
• Strong command of sourcing tools and systems (LinkedIn Recruiter, GEM, ATS/CRM platforms).
• Excellent interpersonal and storytelling skills with the ability to influence both senior leaders and top-tier candidates.
• Analytical mindset — comfortable using recruiting data to identify gaps, coach team members, and improve performance.

Preferred:

• Experience recruiting for engineering functions that do design, field, and sales work.
• Strong understanding of behavioral and competency-based interview frameworks.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or Engineering-related field.
• Demonstrated career progression and leadership trajectory within Talent Acquisition.

What Success Looks Like

Within your first 90 days, you will:

• Establish rhythm and performance expectations with your recruiter team — weekly pipeline and metric reviews.
  Develop and publish standardized interview scorecards for professional-level roles based on developed competency models.
• Partner with TA leadership and recruitment marketing to focus offshore sourcing, pipelining and candidate experience models to improve time to slate and time to fill across critical job categories.
• Help stand up a new ATS and integrate sourcing tools.
• Be recognized by business leaders as a trusted advisor on hiring strategy and talent quality.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive base salary (Denver market range: $105,000–$125,000, commensurate with experience)
• Annual performance-based incentive bonus
• Participation in the company equity share program
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Relocation assistance available for candidates willing to move to Westminster, CO
• Career path toward Director of Talent Acquisition or Head of Recruiting for top performers

Why Join GSI

At GSI, you won’t just fill jobs — you’ll build teams that stabilize mountains, protect communities, and save lives. Our work combines innovation, speed, and mission-driven purpose — and our people reflect that same standard of excellence.

You’ll be part of a TA team that’s redefining what “great hiring” looks like in construction and engineering — where data, discipline, and creative sourcing meet real-world impact.

GSI is an equal opportunity employer.