Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Join CAIS as a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, where you will lead full-cycle recruitment across various functions and locations. This hands-on role requires exceptional sourcing and market-mapping skills, as well as the ability to influence and advise senior leaders. You will take ownership of approved roles from initial intake through accepted offer, build and maintain direct talent pipelines, and provide market intelligence on talent availability and competitor activity. Additionally, you will design effective interview plans, deliver practical interviewer training, and evaluate emerging recruiting technologies.

• Lead full-cycle recruitment across a flexible portfolio of functions, locations, and seniority levels, prioritized against CAIS's most important business needs.
• Build and maintain direct talent pipelines through proactive sourcing, market mapping, referrals, and long-term relationship development.
• Provide leaders with market intelligence on talent availability, compensation, competitor activity, and likely hiring constraints.

• We are particularly interested in recruiters who have successfully managed a broad portfolio of searches at the same time, rather than specializing exclusively in one function
• Experience in one or more of the functions above is valuable, and candidates from asset management, wealth management, alternative investments, or fintech environments are likely to bring relevant market understanding
• Experience across every function or sector is not expected
• Comfort operating as a hands-on individual contributor, including personally managing candidate communication and interview scheduling
• Demonstrated success managing a varied portfolio across different functions and seniority levels at the same time
• Strong command of applicant tracking systems, sourcing platforms, recruiting analytics, and candidate-management tools
• Strong judgement and the credibility to advise, influence, and constructively challenge senior leaders
• Substantial in-house recruiting experience, with evidence of delivering complex and business-critical searches
• Genuine curiosity about AI and emerging recruiting technology, combined with the discipline to evaluate tools critically
• Exceptional direct-sourcing, talent-mapping, and candidate-engagement capability
• Evidence of delivering difficult searches without defaulting to external agencies
• Recruiting experience within one or more of: Operations, Client Service, Sales, Marketing, Technology, or Product
• Experience in asset management, wealth management, alternative investments, fintech, or a related financial-services environment