Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant

As a Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant at PowerSchool Group LLC, you will lead full life-cycle recruiting while partnering closely with business leaders as a trusted advisor. The role emphasizes recruiting strategy, market expertise, managing multiple searches, and consistently delivering a strong candidate experience.

Role Overview

You will serve as a talent market expert and trusted business partner, guiding hiring leaders through the recruiting and selection process. Focus areas include building recruiting strategies, running concurrent searches, and strengthening long-term relationships with talent communities across PowerSchool and the EdTech market.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with hiring leaders to understand business goals, team needs, and the outcomes each hire must deliver.
• Develop recruiting strategies using market insight, sourcing data, compensation context, and candidate evidence.
• Manage multiple searches while maintaining responsiveness, quality, accuracy, and a strong candidate experience.
• Proactively identify and engage active and passive candidates through professional networks, sourcing platforms, referrals, events, and AI-enabled tools.
• Conduct structured, behavioral interviews to evaluate skills, experience, competencies, motivation, and readiness for the role.
• Provide clear candidate recommendations and respectfully challenge assumptions when the evidence, market, or business needs indicate a different approach.
• Build long-term relationships and talent communities across PowerSchool and the EdTech market.
• Continuously improve recruiting practices, tools, processes, and candidate experiences.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of full life-cycle recruiting experience in a corporate, staffing, or search environment.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent requisitions across different functions or levels.
• Proven success developing proactive sourcing strategies for active and passive candidates.
• Experience using behavioral interviewing techniques and translating evidence into candidate recommendations.
• Experience advising hiring leaders throughout the recruiting and selection process.
• Experience using an applicant tracking system and sourcing technologies.
• Ability to travel approximately 5% to 10% for business needs.

Technology Tools

• Applicant tracking system
• Workday Recruiting
• AI-enabled tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience recruiting in SaaS, technology, EdTech, or another complex professional environment.
• Staffing or executive search experience.
• Workday Recruiting experience.
• Experience using AI-enabled recruiting or sourcing tools.
• PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, or comparable certification.

What Success Looks Like in This Role

Success requires strong business acumen, sound judgment, clear communication, and influence through trust rather than authority. You will translate business needs into recruiting strategy, advise leaders with confidence, build relationships across levels and functions, and use market insight and evidence to improve hiring decisions. This role also expects proactive talent pipeline building before needs become urgent, balancing ownership and urgency with thoughtful judgment, and delivering a customer and candidate experience grounded in ownership, urgency, relationships, and service.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision
• Pharmacy
• Life and disability coverage
• 401(k)
• Parental leave
• Discretionary Time Off
• Wellness programs
• Tuition reimbursement
• Additional voluntary benefits

Location and Travel

This is a hybrid role based in the Plano, TX corporate office, with regular onsite presence expected based on team and business needs. Occasional travel of approximately 5% to 10% may be required.