Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SMB Team is a rapidly-growing marketing agency and coaching business for lawyers. They are seeking a Fractional Recruiter to lead full-cycle recruiting for law firm clients, focusing on finding top talent across various roles while providing a consultative approach to clients.
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting for assigned client law firms across all roles — attorneys, paralegals, administrative, and operations staff
- Partner with client stakeholders (CEO, Managing Partner, COO, Office Manager) to build the job blueprint & job description before sourcing begins, ensuring alignment on the role, comp, and non-negotiables
- Source, screen, and present a shortlist of qualified candidates using SMB Team's structured hiring methodology (scorecards, structured interviews, PI/behavioral assessments)
- Manage the candidate pipeline and communication end-to-end, providing clients a weekly search-status update
- Support offer structuring and negotiation on behalf of the client, ensuring compensation is realistic and competitive for a small/mid-sized firms
- Track and report recruiting KPIs (time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, quality-of-hire, retention) to both the client and SMB Team leadership
- Assist and support internal recruiting as needed
Skills
- 3+ years of recruiting experience with a demonstrated mix of agency and in-house recruiting (will consider candidates with just one but those with both will be given preference)
- Proven track record recruiting for small-to-mid-sized businesses
- Experience recruiting across multiple role types (professional, administrative, operations), not a single specialty
- Working knowledge of the business cost of a bad hire, and the discipline to prioritize fit and long-term retention over speed-to-close while still maintaining hiring velocity
- Strong consultative and stakeholder-management skills; comfortable operating as a trusted advisor to firm owners and Managing Partners, not a transactional vendor; including driving a processes/deadlines with client deliverables
- Demonstrated process discipline — follows a structured hiring methodology rather than an intuition-only approach
- Strong written and verbal communication — represents SMB Team directly to clients and candidates
- Must have proven success in outbound recruiting (not just hiring through in-bound applicants)
- Must have experience recruiting for a minimum of 5 roles at a given time, ideally 10+
- Must have above average technical abilities and proven success using technology and AI
- Legal recruiting experience preferred by not required
Benefits
- We pay for 75% of your Medical, Dental, Vision insurance for YOU and YOUR FAMILY.
- FLEXIBLE VACATION TIME - We encourage you to take time to recharge so you can be your best here at work.
- EDUCATION – Team member education and learning budget on courses, events and books.
- INVESTMENTS – 401(k) with a 3% Match.
- WORK STYLE – WFH or come to the office. The choice is yours!
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