Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle recruitment across a flexible portfolio of functions, locations, and seniority levels, prioritized against CAIS's most important business needs.
• Take ownership of approved roles from initial intake through accepted offer, including candidate communication, scheduling, assessment, offer management, and closing.
• Support business leader to translate business requirements into clear role briefs, candidate profiles, sourcing strategies, scorecards, and structured selection processes.
• 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.
• Host role-alignment meetings with hiring managers and confirmed interview panels before searches move into full delivery.
• Design effective interview plans and assessment methods that support fair, consistent, and evidence-based decisions.
• Deliver practical interviewer training and coach interview debriefs, helping teams distinguish evidence from intuition or familiarity.
• Use CAIS's recruiting technology and AI tools effectively and partner with Recruitment Operations on ATS workflows, automation, reporting, and process monitoring.
• Evaluate emerging recruiting and AI technologies and make evidence-based recommendations on where new tools could improve hiring outcomes or candidate experience.

Qualifications

• Substantial in-house recruiting experience, with evidence of delivering complex and business-critical searches.
• Experience in asset management, wealth management, alternative investments, fintech, or a related financial-services environment.
• Demonstrated success managing a varied portfolio across different functions and seniority levels at the same time.
• Recruiting experience within one or more of: Operations, Client Service, Sales, Marketing, Technology, or Product.
• Exceptional direct-sourcing, talent-mapping, and candidate-engagement capability.
• Evidence of delivering difficult searches without defaulting to external agencies.
• Strong judgement and the credibility to advise, influence, and constructively challenge senior leaders.
• Strong command of applicant tracking systems, sourcing platforms, recruiting analytics, and candidate-management tools.
• Genuine curiosity about AI and emerging recruiting technology, combined with the discipline to evaluate tools critically.
• Comfort operating as a hands-on individual contributor, including personally managing candidate communication and interview scheduling.

Additional information

CAIS is consistently recognized as a Best Place to Work, and our culture is at the heart of our success. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where employees can be their most authentic self and feel inspired and supported to bring their voice forward to drive community, growth, and innovation.

Pay and benefits

CAIS' compensation package includes a market competitive salary, a performance bonus, and exceptional benefits. If you are located in New York, New York, the base salary range for this role is $160,000 - $195,000. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location.

CAIS offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes generously subsidized healthcare, dental and vision insurance, an employer matched retirement plan, wellness programs, and generous PTO and parental leave. Additionally, CAIS offers a flexible, hybrid in-office model.

We use technology, including AI tools, to support parts of our recruitment process such as application screening, interview scheduling, and candidate communications. These tools are used to improve efficiency and consistency, but they do not replace human judgement. All hiring decisions are made by people, and we are committed to fair and unbiased assessment of every candidate.