Chief of Staff - TA

Real opportunities. Real impact. Your career, redefined.

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At Oceans, we believe that talent knows no boundaries. That’s why we connect the best and brightest professionals with career-defining opportunities that challenge, inspire, and accelerate their career growth. Our community doesn't just work—they dive deep, solve complex challenges, and make a real impact with global industry leaders. And in doing so, they don’t just support bold ideas—they expand their skills, broaden their expertise, and grow their careers.

As a Chief of Staff - Talent Acquisition (TA), you will partner closely with our Head of TA and leadership team. This role exists to ensure the Talent Acquisition function is operating at peak performance - clear on priorities, aligned to business outcomes, and executing with speed, quality, and consistency.

This is a high-impact role for an operator who thrives at the intersection of strategy, execution, and cross-functional coordination. You will act as a force multiplier for TA leadership, turning vision into action and ensuring nothing slips through the cracks.

Accountability

As Chief of Staff - TA, your success will be defined by the effectiveness, clarity, and reliability of the Talent Acquisition function. You will be accountable for driving operational excellence, ensuring recruiting priorities align with business and sales pipeline needs, and enabling TA leadership to focus on high-leverage decisions. Here’s how you’ll make an impact:

Strategic Alignment

• Partner with TA leadership to define priorities, goals, and success metrics for recruiting
• Translate organizational hiring needs and sales pipeline forecasts into actionable TA strategies
• Ensure recruiting initiatives align with broader workforce planning and business objectives
• Drive clarity on what matters most, and keep the team focused on outcomes over activity

Operational Excellence

• Oversee recruiting operations including funnel management, candidate experience, recruiter enablement, and employer branding initiatives
• Drive process improvements across sourcing, interviewing, and offer management
• Monitor key recruiting KPIs (quality of hire, time-to-fill, match quality, candidate experience) and drive corrective actions
• Build fungibility and continuity across the TA team through clear SOPs, playbooks, and best practices

Program & Project Management

• Lead cross-functional initiatives such as employer branding campaigns, diversity hiring programs, and recruiting technology rollouts
• Own special projects that improve recruiter productivity and candidate engagement in partnership with TA Marketing and Operations
• Ensure initiatives ship on time, with clear owners, milestones, and outcomes

Stakeholder Communication

• Act as a central connector between TA leadership, recruiters, and cross-functional stakeholders
• Prepare executive-ready updates, dashboards, and performance reporting
• Synthesize recruiting data into clear insights and recommendations that support decision-making

Team Enablement

• Support training, enablement, and upskilling initiatives within the TA team
• Champion tools, templates, and frameworks that standardize best practices
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Colleagues

You’ll work closely with the recruiters, TA Marketing, and cross-functional partners across Sales, Client Success, and Operations to ensure recruiting priorities remain tightly aligned to business needs.

While working cross-functionally, this role reports to the Head of Talent Acquisition.

Skills and Qualifications

At Oceans, we believe in T-shaped individuals—those who bring deep expertise in one area, paired with broad curiosity and interests. As a Chief of Staff - Talent Acquisition, your vertical strength will be TA operations and program leadership, while your horizontal capabilities should include strategic planning, stakeholder management, analytics, and cross-functional execution.

To excel in this role, you should have:

• Experience: Proven experience in operations, program management, or operational leadership roles
• Project Management: Strong organizational and project management skills across complex, cross-functional initiatives. An operational driver who ensures recruiting processes run smoothly and efficiently.
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. A values-driven approach grounded in integrity, learning, positivity, and teamwork, and able to build trust with executives, recruiters and other stakeholders alike
• Mindset: An analytical mindset with the ability to interpret recruiting metrics and trends
• Strategic Thinker: Ability to connect hiring priorities to business outcomes
• Innovator: Able to leverage data, technology, and creative approaches to elevate the TA process

Diversity of experience is core to Oceans. You are expected to work inclusively with individuals from a variety of backgrounds, ensuring that both personal and collective dignity are supported.

During the interview process, you’ll have the opportunity to showcase your skills in the following areas:

• Strategic Execution: How you translate hiring priorities into operational plans
• Operational Excellence: How you improve recruiting processes and team efficiency
• Program Management: How you lead cross-functional initiatives from idea to delivery
• Stakeholder Influence: How you build trust with leaders, recruiters, and partners
• Data-Driven Decision-Making: How you use metrics to guide priorities and improvements

Role Specifications

This is a remote role, where you will be expected to work with some overlap across client and internal team time zones. You will be expected to participate in in-person training programs during your first 90 days with us. During the offer process, we’ll share more information about benefits and compensation, considering both market trends and individual factors.

About Oceans

At Oceans, we build remote teams that connect the world’s top 1% of talent with visionary leaders. With us, you’re not just doing a job - you’re redefining your career with opportunities designed to unlock your potential. We welcome the chance to discuss the complementary parts of our business during your interview process and encourage questions about where we are and where we are going.