Talent Acquisition Manager, Tech

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · New York, NY · Corporate

Legora is seeking a Talent Acquisition Manager to lead their tech recruiting efforts in New York City. This role involves managing a team of Tech Talent Partners, owning relationships with engineering and product leadership, building talent pipelines, developing the company's technical brand, and ensuring efficient and high-quality hiring processes. The ideal candidate has prior experience managing technical recruiting teams at high-growth companies and a strong understanding of technical roles.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and develop a team of Tech Talent Partners in New York, setting the standard for how Engineering, Product, and Design hiring gets done locally and building the capacity to keep pace with one of Legora's fastest-growing sites.
  2. Own the relationship with New York EPD leadership as a genuine hiring partner, contributing to role scoping, success profiles, and hiring strategy rather than waiting to be handed a brief.
  3. Build and maintain proactive talent pipelines for senior ICs and engineering leaders, staying ahead of demand in a market where the best candidates have no shortage of options.
  4. Build Legora's technical brand in the New York market, running local events, engaging the engineering community, and establishing Legora as a destination for the best EPD talent in the city.
  5. Run structured, data-informed hiring processes that maintain a consistently high bar across pace and quality, and give hiring managers a clear picture of where searches stand.

Skills

Required

  • Managing technical recruiting teams
  • High-growth, VC-backed company experience
  • Developing individual contributors
  • Accountability for outcomes
  • Credibility with engineering leaders
  • Building proactive pipelines for senior technical talent
  • Sourcing effectively
  • Closing candidates
  • Building employer brand presence
  • Structured, data-driven approach to searches
  • Tracking key metrics
  • Maintaining a high hiring bar

Nice to have

  • Experience in the New York market
  • Experience with AI/ML roles

What the JD emphasized

  • engineering org is targeting 60 hires by year end
  • exceed 100 engineers by the end of next year
  • managing a team of Tech Talent Partners
  • building out the site
  • accountable for the quality, pace, and consistency of EPD hiring
  • managed technical recruiting teams before
  • engineering bar was high
  • hiring plan changed every quarter
  • know what strong looks like at senior IC and engineering leader level
  • built the kind of credibility with engineering leaders
  • led a team
  • developed individual contributors
  • accountable for outcomes rather than just activity
  • hold credible conversations with engineering and product leaders
  • understand the difference between a good CV and a good hire in technical roles
  • building proactive pipelines for senior technical talent in the New York market
  • know the landscape
  • source effectively
  • close candidates who have options
  • building employer brand presence in a local technical market
  • closing great engineers starts long before a role opens
  • structured, data-driven approach to running searches
  • track the right things
  • use pipeline data to make decisions
  • hiring managers informed without being chased
  • hiring bar that doesn't move under pressure
  • searches get hard, you change the approach, not the standard