Financial Services Recruitment Manager

District Partners has been retained to identify a Talent Acquisition Manager for one of the fastest-growing independent wealth and investment management firms in the country.

• →Successfully builds scalable recruiting processes and infrastructure capable of supporting continued national growth
• →Establishes strong credibility and trust with executive leadership and hiring managers
• →Improves recruiting efficiency, hiring quality, and candidate experience across the organization
• →Creates stronger alignment between internal recruiting efforts and external recruiting partners
• →Helps position the organization as a destination employer within financial services and wealth management
• →Contributes meaningfully to the long-term growth and operational maturity of the People function

• →7+ years of progressive talent acquisition or recruiting experience
• →Experience recruiting within high-growth or rapidly evolving environments
• →Demonstrated success managing full-cycle recruiting processes across professional or corporate functions
• →Experience working with or managing external recruiting agencies and search partners
• →Strong understanding of recruiting operations, ATS systems, sourcing tools, and recruiting analytics
• →Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
• →Exceptional communication skills and stakeholder management capabilities
• →High degree of organization, urgency, and follow-through
• →Experience within wealth management, investment management, financial services, professional services, or adjacent industries is strongly preferred
• →Bachelor’s degree required

• Help design and scale a modern internal recruiting function capable of supporting rapid national growth
• Partner closely with executive leadership and People leadership on workforce planning, organizational growth, and hiring strategy
• Develop scalable recruiting processes, interview frameworks, offer workflows, and onboarding coordination
• Help optimize ATS workflows, reporting infrastructure, and recruiting operations

• Lead end-to-end recruiting efforts across high-priority and strategic roles
• Partner with business leaders across wealth management, operations, technology, finance, and corporate functions
• Develop creative sourcing strategies across passive talent markets, referral networks, industry relationships, and competitive intelligence
• Ensure a high-quality candidate experience from initial outreach through offer acceptance

• Serve as a key point of contact for recruiting agencies, RPO partners, and external talent vendors
• Evaluate performance, quality, responsiveness, and efficiency of external partners
• Build accountability frameworks and improve alignment between internal stakeholders and external recruiting resources

• Help strengthen and communicate the organization’s employer value proposition
• Partner with marketing and leadership teams to improve recruiting messaging and talent market positioning
• Support initiatives related to campus recruiting, industry events, LinkedIn presence, and long-term talent pipeline development

• Build and monitor recruiting metrics including time-to-fill, source effectiveness, quality-of-hire, and recruiting funnel conversion
• Use recruiting data and market insights to improve hiring processes and support strategic decision making
• Help implement scalable and inclusive hiring practices across the organization

• You are someone who thrives in environments where growth creates opportunity.
• You enjoy building structure, improving processes, and solving operational challenges. You are naturally proactive, highly accountable, and capable of operating with both strategic perspective and day-to-day executional rigor.
• You understand that recruiting is not simply about filling jobs. It is about helping shape culture, growth, leadership capability, and long-term organizational success.
• You bring urgency without sacrificing quality. You are collaborative but decisive. You hold yourself and your partners to high standards while maintaining a low-ego, solutions-oriented approach.
• Most importantly, you understand that every hire matters.

• What makes this organization compelling is not simply its scale or growth trajectory, but the quality of its people and the sophistication of its long-term vision.
• The firm has built a culture that values collaboration over politics, substance over optics, and long-term relationship building over transactional decision making. Leadership is highly invested in infrastructure, people, and creating a best-in-class employee experience that matches the level of service delivered to clients.
• Unlike many mature financial institutions, this organization still operates with the energy and urgency of a growth-stage business. The environment rewards initiative, strategic thinking, and individuals who are comfortable operating in ambiguity while building scalable solutions.
• This role offers meaningful visibility to executive leadership and the opportunity to directly influence how the organization attracts, evaluates, and hires talent across the enterprise.