Job Description

Position Summary:

The Talent Acquisition Partner owns executive search and talent strategy for Cerity Partner's client facing practices and shared services departments, serving as a trusted advisor to practice leaders and hiring executives. Support for these teams include critical, high-visibility, and confidential searches. This position blends strategic sourcing, executive-level candidate management, and consultative partnership with firm leadership, and carries accountability for search outcomes, market insight, and the standard of senior-level recruiting across the firm.

At Cerity Partners, growth is the story, and the Talent Acquisition Center of Excellence is a big part of what makes it possible. With more than $200 billion in AUM, Cerity Partners is one of the fastest-growing independent wealth firms in the country, and that growth reaches well beyond traditional wealth management. Our practices span wealth management, family office, tax, and retirement plan advisory, alongside Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) services for nonprofit endowments and foundations, Institutional Consulting (IC) for public, nonprofit, multi-employer, and corporate clients, and Cerity Partners Ventures (CPV). Our team has helped build an organization that has been named to Newsweek’s America’s Top Financial Advisory Firms, ranked among Barron’s Top 100 RIA Firms, and recognized with RIA of the Year and Best Firm Culture awards.

What you bring is the executive search expertise, sound judgment, and relationship-building expertise to find and win the leaders who will define our next chapter across every practice.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serve as strategic advisor to practice leaders and hiring executives, shaping search criteria, sc

ope, success profiles, and workforce plans for the firm’s highest-priority practices

• Own the firm’s most sensitive executive and leadership searches end to end, from intake through close, with full accountability for outcomes
• Lead confidential, proactive outreach and long-term relationship-building with senior-level and passive executive candidates, building standing talent pipelines ahead of need
• Design and lead end-to-end interview processes for executive searches, aligning panels and stakeholders and holding the process to a high bar
• Deliver a white-glove candidate experience, maintaining discretion throughout confidential and leadership-level searches
• Direct market mapping and competitive intelligence to set search strategy, target lists, and talent acquisition priorities for highest-priority practices
• Advise hiring leaders on offer strategy, compensation positioning, and competing offers, and lead negotiation and close in partnership with leadership and compensation teams
• Deliver polished, high-touch candidate communications, including status updates and executive-level rejection and feedback conversations that protect the firm’s reputation
• Lead executive onboarding strategy, including tailored pre-boarding engagement for senior hires, and partner with onboarding and leadership teams for a seamless transition
• Report on search progress, pipeline health, and market trends to the Head of Talent Acquisition and firm leadership
• Mentor and coach TA Partners and Associates on executive search practices, and help shape the firm’s recruiting standards and processes

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including a proven track record leading executive and senior-level searches
• Demonstrated success managing confidential, high-visibility searches with discretion and sound judgment
• Strong consultative and relationship-management skills, with credibility and influence among senior stakeholders and practice leaders
• Experience with executive sourcing tools, market mapping, and competitive talent intelligence
• Experience advising on offer strategy and negotiating and closing senior-level candidates
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience in retained executive search or a search-firm environment
• Experience in wealth management, financial services, or professional services
• SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, or AIRS sourcing certification

Skills and Competencies:

• Strategic thinker who shapes search strategy and talent priorities for highest-priority practices, not just executes against them
• Executive-level presence, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to influence senior leaders
• High degree of discretion and sound judgment managing confidential searches
• Strong relationship-management and consultative skills with senior stakeholders
• Uses recruiting data and pipeline metrics to guide decisions on sourcing channels, search strategy, and process improvements
• Excellence with AI-powered sourcing and recruiting tools, applying them to sharpen candidate identification and streamline the search process
• Stays current on executive hiring trends, compensation benchmarks, and shifts in the talent market to keep search strategy competitive
• Skilled negotiator who closes competitive candidates and navigates counter-offers
• Coaches and develops others, raising the bar for recruiting across the team

Compensation Range:

• $100,000 - $125,000 base salary with bonus

Why Cerity Partners:

Our people drive our success by working together to deliver exceptional service to our clients. Below is a glimpse of the key elements of our total rewards package:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance – day 1!
• 401(k) savings and investment plan options with 4% match
• Flexible PTO policy
• Parental Leave
• Financial assistance for advanced education and professional designations
• Opportunity to give back time to local communities
• Commuter benefits

Cerity Partners is committed to providing an environment where all individuals can be their authentic selves. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer who respects each individual and supports the diverse cultures, perspectives, and experiences of our colleagues. We are dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce and will not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.

Cerity Partners is committed to working with and providing accommodations to applicants with disabilities or special needs. For those needing accommodations, please reach out to careers@ceritypartners.com. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.