Director of Legal Recruiting (AI)

Location: Silicon Valley or any hirify.global U.S. office; hybrid schedule with 2–3 days of in-office presence per week and additional onsite days as needed

Salary: $168,000–$251,250 per year, plus a possible discretionary performance bonus

Company

hirify.global is a law firm with legal talent, attorney recruiting, practice management, and legal training functions supporting attorneys throughout their lifecycle.

What you will do

• Oversee firmwide recruiting for lateral associates and counsel, entry-level attorneys, clerks, summer associates, and lateral partners.
• Develop recruiting strategies with practice group leaders, hiring partners, legal personnel, and practice management.
• Build and manage relationships with search firms, including hiring priorities, agreements, and recruitment expenditures.
• Lead the summer associate and law school recruiting programs, including onboarding, assignments, feedback, events, reviews, and offers.
• Use AI-enabled recruiting tools for sourcing, screening, pipeline tracking, reporting, market intelligence, and decision-making.
• Present recruiting data, trends, projections, budgets, and strategic recommendations to firm leadership while improving candidate integration and experience.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of attorney or legal recruiting experience in a law firm or law school environment.
• Significant experience managing attorney recruiting programs, including lateral partner recruitment.
• Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing talent development teams.
• Bachelor’s degree required; a master’s degree or J.D. is preferred.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, communication, judgment, persuasion, collaboration, and strategic thinking skills.
• Fluency with AI-enabled recruiting tools and the ability to champion their adoption.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or J.D.
• Experience with diversity recruiting and compliance with the Mansfield Rule.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time exempt employment with comprehensive employee benefits.
• Healthcare, life insurance, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, and wellbeing benefits are available to eligible employees.
• Strategic, consensus-driven collaboration across legal recruiting, legal personnel, legal training, practice management, and firm leadership.
• Opportunity to shape firmwide recruiting strategy, programs, budgets, and AI-enabled practices.