Senior Director, Talent Acquisition
Solar LandscapeAsbury Park, NJ
Full Time
Posted May 19, 2026
$150k - $190k
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Job Description
Solar Landscape is the leading commercial rooftop solar developer in the U.S.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and drive the company-wide talent acquisition strategy aligned to business growth objectives
- Partner with executive and functional leaders to forecast hiring needs and translate business goals into actionable hiring plans
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing recruiting team, setting clear goals, metrics, and accountability
- Design and optimize scalable recruiting processes to improve speed, quality, and candidate experience
- Establish and track key recruiting metrics (time-to-fill, quality of hire, funnel conversion) to drive data-informed decisions
- Lead employer branding initiatives to position the company as a top destination for talent
- Partner with People/HR leadership on workforce planning, organizational design, and headcount strategy
- Oversee and elevate candidate experience across all touchpoints
- Implement tools, systems, and best practices to support a growing organization
- Partner with hiring managers to raise the bar on talent quality and interview effectiveness
- Ensure equitable and inclusive hiring practices across the organization
- Own internal talent mobility strategy, partnering with People leadership to ensure visibility into internal talent and reduce reliance on external hiring
- Partner on succession planning for critical roles, ensuring strong internal pipelines aligned to long-term business needs.
Requirements
- 8–12+ years of experience in talent acquisition, including 3-5+ years leading and developing recruiting teams
- Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing recruiting functions in a high-growth environment
- Experience owning company-wide hiring strategy, workforce planning, and headcount forecasting in partnership with executive leadership
- Demonstrated success hiring across multiple functions (e.g., construction operations, technical, corporate) and levels, including senior leadership roles, with a preference for deep experience in construction-related roles in the renewable energy industry
- Strong analytical mindset with experience using recruiting metrics (e.g., time-to-fill, funnel conversion, quality of hire) to drive decisions and improvements
- Experience designing and optimizing end-to-end recruiting processes, systems, and candidate experience
- Ability to influence and partner with senior stakeholders, including C-suite, to align hiring with business priorities
- Track record of building employer brand and talent attraction strategies in competitive markets
- Experience implementing or scaling recruiting tools (ATS, CRM, sourcing tools) and leveraging them effectively
- Strong leadership and coaching capability, with a focus on developing recruiters and hiring managers
- Deep understanding of inclusive hiring practices and ability to embed them into recruiting processes
- Ability to operate strategically while staying close to execution to unblock teams and drive results
- Experience in construction or construction-adjacent companies strongly preferred
- Experience in a scaling or fast-paced environment with comfort navigating ambiguity
- Experience owning or partnering on internal talent mobility strategies to ensure strong internal pipelines for critical roles
- Proven ability to build and leverage internal talent pipelines, including ownership of internal mobility and partnership on succession planning for key roles.
Benefits & Perks
- Located in the heart of historic Asbury Park, our state-of-the-art office space offers flexible workstations encouraging collaboration and movement.
- Employees come together to eat every day! Like in a home, our gourmet kitchen is the heart of the office. Solar Landscape has a full-time in-house chef cooking daily farm-to-table meals using locally sourced organic food.
- Also included for employees is our competitive compensation package; a 401(k) employer-match; health, dental, & vision insurance, flexible paid time off and holiday PTO; We provide healthy snacks, coffee, volunteer opportunities, company outings, and more!
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