KPFF is hiring a Talent Acquisition Specialist

Responsibilities

• Oversee full-cycle recruiting for positions across various offices, disciplines, and experience levels, from initial intake and strategy development through offer acceptance.
• Collaborate with hiring teams to grasp business needs, role requirements, candidate profiles, timelines, and market conditions before initiating a search.
• Create sourcing and outreach strategies tailored to the role, location, talent market, and hiring team requirements.
• Actively identify and engage passive candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter, SmartRecruiters, professional networks, and other sourcing tools.
• Develop and sustain talent pipelines for current and anticipated hiring needs.
• Handle job postings, applicant flow, candidate communication, interviews, feedback, references, and other recruiting activities within SmartRecruiters.
• Act as a recruiting partner to hiring managers and operational leaders, offering market insights, recruiting recommendations, and practical guidance throughout the hiring process.
• Adjust recruiting strategies to support independently operating teams while introducing consistency and best practices where beneficial.
• Assist hiring teams in defining candidate profiles, evaluating talent markets, and modifying recruiting approaches when searches require a different strategy.
• Balance multiple concurrent searches and priorities while maintaining communication with hiring teams and candidates.
• Work with administrative and operational staff to coordinate recruiting activities and ensure searches progress efficiently.
• Use recruiting data, candidate feedback, and market information to identify opportunities for improving recruiting strategies and processes.
• Build relationships with prospective candidates through thoughtful, personalized outreach and ongoing engagement.
• Guide candidates through the recruiting process with clear, timely communication and an understanding of each team's opportunity and culture.
• Help hiring teams create an organized, engaging, and responsive interview experience.
• Collaborate closely with other Talent Acquisition team members to share talent, sourcing strategies, market knowledge, and recruiting best practices.
• Contribute to ongoing improvements in recruiting tools, processes, candidate engagement, and hiring team support.

Requirements

• 2 to 5 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, preferably within professional services, consulting, engineering, architecture, construction, technology, or another technical environment.
• Demonstrated experience sourcing and engaging passive candidates, including strong working knowledge of LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, and ATS or CRM databases.
• Experience partnering directly with hiring managers to understand hiring needs and develop recruiting strategies.
• Comfortable managing multiple searches with different priorities, stakeholders, and timelines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop effective candidate outreach and communicate confidently with candidates and hiring teams.
• Strong organization and follow-through, with attention to both the candidate experience and the details required to keep searches moving.
• Experience working with an Applicant Tracking System.
• Comfortable using recruiting data and market information to evaluate sourcing effectiveness and inform recruiting strategies.
• Adaptable and comfortable working in an environment where teams may have different processes, priorities, and decision-making styles.
• Curious, collaborative, and comfortable asking questions, offering recommendations, and building trusted relationships with hiring teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with SmartRecruiters is a plus.
• Familiarity with AEC roles, terminology, or talent markets is helpful, but direct AEC recruiting experience is not required.

Benefits

• Medical Plan Options: Choice of Traditional PPO or HDHP with HSA, including preventive care and prescription coverage.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA): Tax-advantaged healthcare and dependent care accounts.
• Dental & Vision: Preventive care and coverage for additional dental and vision services.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Confidential support for personal, family, and work-related needs.
• Life & AD&D Insurance: Company-provided life insurance equal to one year's salary, plus AD&D coverage.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan: KPFF contributes 3% of salary with no employee contribution required.
• Disability Insurance: Short-term and long-term disability coverage provided by KPFF.
• Paid Time Off: PTO, two floating holidays, and paid company holidays.
• Paid Family Leave: Six weeks at 60% pay, with the option to use available PTO to supplement income.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Other

• This is a work-from-home position, not a location-independent position.
• Candidates must be based in the United States and able to work standard business hours aligned with the Pacific or Mountain Time Zones.
• Team members may work from home within these time zones or, when geographically close to a KPFF office, may have the option to work onsite or in a hybrid arrangement.
• Occasional travel for team meetings, recruiting activities, and office visits may be required.
• Primarily a work-from-home role requiring prolonged periods of sitting, computer use, and participation in virtual meetings.
• Requires a reliable internet connection and a professional environment appropriate for virtual meetings and candidate conversations.
• Regular use of standard office technology, including a computer, headset, phone, and video conferencing tools.
• Ability to communicate effectively in virtual and in-person settings.
• For team members working onsite or in a hybrid arrangement, standard office environments and equipment apply.
• This position is not eligible for employment-based visa sponsorship or transfer.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without employer-sponsored visa support now or in the future.
• KPFF Consulting Engineers participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

This position is not eligible for employment-based visa sponsorship or transfer. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without employer-sponsored visa support now or in the future.