Talent Acquisition Lead

Role Description

MGT is seeking a Recruiter / Talent Acquisition Lead to own and lead recruiting efforts for our growing management consulting practice. This individual will serve as both a full-cycle recruiter and campus recruiting lead, helping attract, assess, and hire exceptional consulting talent across experienced hire and university pipelines.

This is a highly visible role with the opportunity to shape the future of talent acquisition at MGT. The ideal candidate will bring experience in management consulting, consulting recruiting, or professional services recruiting and will be comfortable owning both recruiting strategy and hands-on execution.

In this role you will:

• Lead full-cycle recruiting efforts for consulting roles across the firm, including Analysts, Associate Consultants, Engagement Managers, and specialized hires.
• Partner closely with consulting leadership to understand hiring needs, workforce planning, and recruiting priorities.
• Build and manage relationships with top universities, student organizations, career centers, and MBA programs.
• Serve as the primary campus recruiting liaison for MGT, coordinating recruiting events, interview processes, and internship programs.
• Source and engage high-caliber candidates from consulting firms, graduate programs, and adjacent industries.
• Own the candidate experience from initial outreach through offer acceptance and onboarding coordination.
• Develop and improve recruiting processes, interview frameworks, and talent tracking systems.
• Manage recruiting operations, including scheduling, pipeline management, reporting, and coordination with hiring teams.
• Support employer branding initiatives, recruiting marketing, and thought leadership efforts.
• Take initiative in building scalable recruiting strategies and identifying opportunities to improve talent acquisition outcomes.
• Represent MGT with professionalism and credibility when engaging candidates, universities, internal stakeholders, and external partners.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is required.
• Five (5) or more years of experience in management consulting, consulting recruiting, talent acquisition, or a related professional services environment.
• Prior experience working in or recruiting for management consulting, strategy consulting, or professional services strongly preferred.
• Experience leading full-cycle recruiting searches for consulting, professional services, business, strategy, or analytical roles.
• Experience with campus recruiting, university relationship management, internship programs, or early-career hiring preferred.
• Experience sourcing and engaging candidates from consulting firms, graduate programs, universities, and adjacent industries.
• Experience supporting employer branding, recruiting marketing, recruiting events, or talent pipeline development preferred.
• Experience using recruiting systems, talent tracking tools, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, or similar business platforms.
• Ability to travel as needed based on recruiting events, campus engagement, business needs, and hiring priorities.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• 5% 401K matching program
• Equity opportunities
• Incentive and bonus programs
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Flexible spending accounts
• Full-health benefits with base employee coverage fully funded, comprising:
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Life insurance
  • Short and long-term disability coverage
  • Income protection benefits

Company Description

MGT is a leading provider of technology and advisory solutions serving state, local, and education government agencies (SLED) across the United States. Through client partnerships, MGT’s almost 1,000 employees impact communities for good by managing and securing critical networks, solving complex human capital and fiscal problems, elevating education systems, and advancing equity as a performance imperative.

Founded in 1975, MGT initiated an ambitious restart in 2016, broadening the solutions portfolio to provide the most specialized solutions, tackling the most mission-critical problems that live at the top of the public agency leadership agenda. MGT drives over 20% compound annual organic growth and utilizes programmatic mergers and acquisitions to grow capabilities, attract top talent, and accelerate growth scale. Since 2020, MGT has successfully completed 10 acquisitions, driving over 60% compound annual inorganic growth.

Celebrating its 50th year in 2025, the firm attracts exceptional talent and empowers them to exceed client expectations as they navigate the dynamic demands of the clients we serve.