Senior Director of Recruitment Strategy & Operations

This is a Full Time Job

The Senior Director, Recruitment Strategy & Operations will set and drive the global recruitment strategy, ensuring the organization attracts top talent and builds critical capabilities across CAA functions. This role will lead the development of key capabilities, systems, and processes from the ground up, shaping a scalable, data-driven, and equitable recruitment strategy.

As a key leadership role, the Senior Director will build trusted relationships across the business, define and deliver global hiring infrastructure, and ensure recruitment operations, sourcing, labor market intelligence, and employer branding are aligned to support CAA's strategic talent goals.

Sourcing & Market Intelligence
• Partner with HRBPs, Finance, and Agency Operations on strategic workforce planning and talent pipelining.
• Deliver proactive sourcing and market mapping for hard-to-fill and executive-level roles.
• Leverage labor market insights to inform sourcing strategies and support decision-making.

Recruitment Operations
• Design and standardize global recruitment processes (e.g., requisition approvals, job postings, assessments, scheduling).
• Align with HR Operations to optimize the recruitment tech stack (e.g., Workday, AI tools).
• Support Recruitment Delivery and Early Careers teams with training and operational updates.

Data, Analytics & Reporting
• Collaborate with the HR Data team to define key recruiting metrics and dashboards.
• Analyze data to track performance (e.g., time-to-fill, sourcing effectiveness) and inform strategy.
• Provide actionable insights to senior leadership.

Talent Brand
• Lead the development and execution of a global employer brand strategy.
• Partner with Communications and Creative teams to establish and promote the EVP.
• Oversee recruitment marketing efforts across key platforms and manage vendor relationships.

Qualifications
• 8–12+ years in recruitment, with deep experience across sourcing, labor market analysis, and/or operations.
• 4+ years in a leadership role overseeing a recruitment Center of Excellence or equivalent function.
• Proven success building and scaling global recruitment strategies.
• Strong expertise in recruiting operations (ATS, assessments, candidate experience, etc.).
• Direct experience leading global sourcing efforts and managing executive search.
• Data-driven with strong analytical skills and fluency in ATS/CRM systems (e.g., Workday, Greenhouse).
• Skilled in leading dispersed teams and navigating matrixed global environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive influence.
• Experience managing large-scale vendor partnerships across recruitment services.

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with global workforce planning and talent scaling.
• Familiarity with international hiring regulations and compliance.
• Strong understanding of talent market trends, particularly in entertainment.
• Background in global technology recruitment and talent branding best practices.
• Awareness of emerging recruitment technologies and industry innovation.

Location

This is a hybrid role based in our Los Angeles or New York office.

CAA does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless they were contractually engaged by CAA to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any such employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the acknowledgement and agreement that CAA will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.