Working with KinderCare Learning Companies means using your outstanding talents to help set the foundation for lifelong learners, where you can collaborate with colleagues, grow and learn, and positively impact the families we serve.

With over 50 years of experience, 30,000+ employees, and more than 2,000 early learning center programs, we are the most accredited leaders in early childhood education. Together, we create environments where kids grow and thrive. As one of only four companies to receive the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award six times, we’re confident that you can grow and thrive here, too. We can’t wait to meet you.

KinderCare Learning Companies has an exciting opportunity for a seasoned Senior Recruiter to provide expertise and support to a diverse group of client groups and searches for our growing organization. Joining our team as a Talent Acquisition Business Partner means joining a larger community of Talent professionals. We’re a diverse mix of Recruiters, Coordinators, HR systems, and Branding people that make up our talent function. Our corporate recruiters hire across the US, with most roles being remote and based in any of the 40+ states that we do business.
Individual client groups will vary but include a traditional mix of Finance, Accounting, HR, IT, Marketing, etc. These are primarily exempt professional-level openings but will include the occasional hourly positions. Our ideal candidate will have experience working as a trusted business advisor and consultative recruiting subject matter expert to senior leadership in a corporate setting. In addition, the position requires the ability to actively source and develop candidates nationally across multiple functional disciplines.

Responsibilities:

• Manages full-cycle recruiting for openings across traditional corporate office functions

• Consults with hiring managers on staffing plans, candidate experience, and interview processes that drive hiring outcomes

• Expertly navigates stake holder management as it relates to complex search strategies and hiring

• Consults with hiring managers and HR leaders on current and future talent needs, org planning and the future state of the organization

• Understands strategic business objectives and organizational design to develop strategies to meet current and future staffing needs

• Applies an in-depth understanding of the business environment to construct business cases for proposed solutions

• Proactively educates hiring managers and HR leaders on local and national employment and labor market trends, as it relates to available talent pools

• Proactively identifies and implements effective sourcing and recruiting strategies to generate high-quality diverse candidate pipelines

• Navigates, obtains alignment, and negotiates complex offer packages with candidates

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience Recruiting corporate, professional, and executive level searches in a fast pace high touch environment
• Strong candidate assessment skills with experience conducting behavioral interviews and interpreting candidate assessments for hiring managers
• Ability to flex work hours to accommodate varying time zones
• Experience supporting and influencing hiring managers (tenured and brand-new leaders) through complex searches
• Ability to influence, consult, sell and negotiate complex offers with features including commission structures, short-term and long-term incentive plans, and the occasional relocation package
• Ability to generate top-tier passive candidates and implement effective recruiting strategies
• Ability to balance multiple diverse openings
• Strong understanding of compensation, national employment trends, and candidate engagement strategies
• Comfort with a fast-changing environment
  

Our benefits meet you where you are. We’re here to help our employees navigate the integration of work and life:

• Know your whole family is supported with discounted child care benefits.
• Breathe easy with medical, dental, and vision benefits for your family (and pets, too!).
• Feel supported in your mental health and personal growth with employee assistance programs.
• Feel great and thrive with access to health and wellness programs, unlimited paid time off and discounts for work necessities, such as cell phones.
• … and much more.

At KinderCare Learning Companies you'll use your skills and expertise to help craft and contribute to our shared mission of supporting communities and encouraging lifelong learners. From our teachers to our cooks to our financial analysts, we are all passionate about crafting a world of learning, happiness and adventure for more than 150,000 children every day.

As the first national early childcare education provider to achieve the WELL Health-Safety Rating from the International WELL Building Institute, we continue to follow the latest science-backed and evidence-based strategies for maintaining a safe and worry-free workplace.

Our highest priority has always been to keep our employees, children, families, and communities as safe and healthy as possible. KinderCare highly encourages its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect themselves and their communities. We are proud to provide paid time off for employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. We are also subject to state law, local ordinances, and Health Department requirements for employees working in child care, school facilities, and corporate work spaces.

We truly believe that everyone belongs in our circle, and everyone deserves to be celebrated for who they are. By partnering with underrepresented groups and experts in DEI, we are identifying areas to improve and forging a path forward through accountability, compassion, accessibility, and inclusion.

KinderCare Learning Companies is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.

Primary Location : Portland, Oregon, United States

Job : Corporate