Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Director, Firmwide Recruiting & Strategic Growth
Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington, District of Columbia, us, 20022
Overview
The Director, Firmwide Recruiting & Strategic Growth provides strategic leadership and oversight for all attorney and business professional recruiting across the Firm. This position designs and implements forward-looking recruiting strategies aligned with Firmwide growth, including expansion of practices, offices, and capabilities. The Director develops talent pipelines, strengthens the Firm’s recruiting brand, and ensures recruiting efforts are competitive, inclusive and responsive to evolving market trends. This role helps develop a unified vision for recruiting attorneys and business professionals, ensuring consistency, agility, and excellence throughout the recruiting lifecycle. Responsibilities
Design and drive the Firm’s attorney and business professional recruiting strategy across all offices and levels, aligned with practice area and business needs. Develop recruiting strategies that address immediate hiring needs and support long-term retention, succession planning, business growth, and market positioning for attorney and business professional roles. Establish and nurture relationships with potential lateral attorneys, teams, and strategic talent in partnership with Firm leadership. Build long-term talent pipelines, proactively seeking opportunities to attract individuals with skills and backgrounds aligned with future needs. Analyze legal market trends, peer firm practices, and compensation data to anticipate hiring needs and keep the Firm competitive. Advise on strategic growth initiatives and support hiring-related due diligence. Collaborate with Leaders across the Firm to ensure recruiting strategies are aligned with growth and talent priorities, and work with the Hiring and Lateral Committees on planning, structure, and policy recommendations. Ensure recruiting brand efforts reflect the Firm’s positioning as an innovative employer of choice, with consistent messaging across platforms and candidate experiences. Guide the creation of recruiting collateral, law school materials, and job postings to align with the Firm’s reputation and values. Set Firmwide strategy for job fairs, on-campus interviews, and recruiting event participation, evaluating ROI and visibility opportunities. Establish candidate engagement and pre-onboarding touchpoint strategies, executed by the Talent Acquisition Team. Maintain high-level relationships with law schools, search firms, and professional organizations to enhance outreach and visibility. Provide oversight and direction for all recruiting efforts, including lateral, law school, strategic growth, and business professional hiring. Supervise the Talent Acquisition Team, providing day-to-day leadership, coaching, and strategic direction to ensure high performance. Evaluate workflow models and operational infrastructure to support continued strategic growth and align with best practices in talent acquisition. Set and monitor success metrics including time-to-hire, candidate engagement, pipeline strength, and long-term performance and retention of new hires. Oversee development of dashboards to track key recruiting KPIs, analyze data, identify trends, propose process improvements, conduct equity checks, and inform pipeline strategy. Collaborate with People Operations Team Leaders on onboarding, integration, compliance, new hire development and engagement. Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree required; JD or advanced degree preferred. Minimum 10 years of legal or professional services recruiting experience, including lateral and law school hiring. Proven strategic leadership in talent acquisition, recruiting marketing, and team management. Ability to collaborate effectively across teams and with Firm leadership. Proficiency in applicant tracking systems (Vi preferred) and recruiting data analysis. Demonstrated ability to lead collaborative teams with a growth mindset, champion innovation in recruiting strategy, and leverage technology and data to drive results. Proven ability to develop and implement firmwide recruitment strategies aligned with long-term business growth objectives. Deep understanding of the legal industry, including talent acquisition trends, market dynamics, and competitive positioning. Strong skills in fostering relationships with partners, leadership, and external recruitment partners. Success Factors
Strong proficiency in leveraging data analytics to drive decision-making, measure recruitment success, and forecast talent needs. Ability to drive innovation, challenge the status quo, and persuade stakeholders toward adopting new talent strategies. Work Environment
Non-smoking environment. Hybrid work arrangements may be available for this position. Must be available to work beyond regular business hours as needed and capable of meeting tight deadlines. The anticipated base salary range for this position is $170,000 to $225,000. The actual base salary offered will depend on the applicant’s experience and qualifications, as well as other job-related factors including location and credentials. Steptoe offers a full range of benefits for eligible dependents. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, disability, dependent care, health care flexible spending accounts, 401K Plan, Profit-Sharing, Paid Time-Off and a Wellness Program. Steptoe LLP is an equal opportunity employer EOE/AA/Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information, or any basis proscribed by applicable statutes.
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The Director, Firmwide Recruiting & Strategic Growth provides strategic leadership and oversight for all attorney and business professional recruiting across the Firm. This position designs and implements forward-looking recruiting strategies aligned with Firmwide growth, including expansion of practices, offices, and capabilities. The Director develops talent pipelines, strengthens the Firm’s recruiting brand, and ensures recruiting efforts are competitive, inclusive and responsive to evolving market trends. This role helps develop a unified vision for recruiting attorneys and business professionals, ensuring consistency, agility, and excellence throughout the recruiting lifecycle. Responsibilities
Design and drive the Firm’s attorney and business professional recruiting strategy across all offices and levels, aligned with practice area and business needs. Develop recruiting strategies that address immediate hiring needs and support long-term retention, succession planning, business growth, and market positioning for attorney and business professional roles. Establish and nurture relationships with potential lateral attorneys, teams, and strategic talent in partnership with Firm leadership. Build long-term talent pipelines, proactively seeking opportunities to attract individuals with skills and backgrounds aligned with future needs. Analyze legal market trends, peer firm practices, and compensation data to anticipate hiring needs and keep the Firm competitive. Advise on strategic growth initiatives and support hiring-related due diligence. Collaborate with Leaders across the Firm to ensure recruiting strategies are aligned with growth and talent priorities, and work with the Hiring and Lateral Committees on planning, structure, and policy recommendations. Ensure recruiting brand efforts reflect the Firm’s positioning as an innovative employer of choice, with consistent messaging across platforms and candidate experiences. Guide the creation of recruiting collateral, law school materials, and job postings to align with the Firm’s reputation and values. Set Firmwide strategy for job fairs, on-campus interviews, and recruiting event participation, evaluating ROI and visibility opportunities. Establish candidate engagement and pre-onboarding touchpoint strategies, executed by the Talent Acquisition Team. Maintain high-level relationships with law schools, search firms, and professional organizations to enhance outreach and visibility. Provide oversight and direction for all recruiting efforts, including lateral, law school, strategic growth, and business professional hiring. Supervise the Talent Acquisition Team, providing day-to-day leadership, coaching, and strategic direction to ensure high performance. Evaluate workflow models and operational infrastructure to support continued strategic growth and align with best practices in talent acquisition. Set and monitor success metrics including time-to-hire, candidate engagement, pipeline strength, and long-term performance and retention of new hires. Oversee development of dashboards to track key recruiting KPIs, analyze data, identify trends, propose process improvements, conduct equity checks, and inform pipeline strategy. Collaborate with People Operations Team Leaders on onboarding, integration, compliance, new hire development and engagement. Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree required; JD or advanced degree preferred. Minimum 10 years of legal or professional services recruiting experience, including lateral and law school hiring. Proven strategic leadership in talent acquisition, recruiting marketing, and team management. Ability to collaborate effectively across teams and with Firm leadership. Proficiency in applicant tracking systems (Vi preferred) and recruiting data analysis. Demonstrated ability to lead collaborative teams with a growth mindset, champion innovation in recruiting strategy, and leverage technology and data to drive results. Proven ability to develop and implement firmwide recruitment strategies aligned with long-term business growth objectives. Deep understanding of the legal industry, including talent acquisition trends, market dynamics, and competitive positioning. Strong skills in fostering relationships with partners, leadership, and external recruitment partners. Success Factors
Strong proficiency in leveraging data analytics to drive decision-making, measure recruitment success, and forecast talent needs. Ability to drive innovation, challenge the status quo, and persuade stakeholders toward adopting new talent strategies. Work Environment
Non-smoking environment. Hybrid work arrangements may be available for this position. Must be available to work beyond regular business hours as needed and capable of meeting tight deadlines. The anticipated base salary range for this position is $170,000 to $225,000. The actual base salary offered will depend on the applicant’s experience and qualifications, as well as other job-related factors including location and credentials. Steptoe offers a full range of benefits for eligible dependents. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, disability, dependent care, health care flexible spending accounts, 401K Plan, Profit-Sharing, Paid Time-Off and a Wellness Program. Steptoe LLP is an equal opportunity employer EOE/AA/Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information, or any basis proscribed by applicable statutes.
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