Sr. Legal Recruiter

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Legal Recruiter (Recruiter 3)

Job Description

This role focuses on independently sourcing and building strong talent pipelines for critical positions within the Legal and Public Policy space. You collaborate closely with hiring teams to understand ideal candidate profiles and proactively identify, engage, and deliver high-quality legal talent. You rely on your extensive recruiting experience and professional judgment to plan and accomplish goals, using a wide degree of creativity and autonomy to manage a variety of recruiting tasks in a fast-paced corporate environment.

Responsibilities

• Independently source and identify talent pipelines for critical roles within the Legal and Public Policy domains.
• Partner with hiring teams to calibrate on role requirements, candidate profiles, and search strategies for legal and related positions.
• Conduct approximately 40% of your time on passive sourcing activities, including identifying, researching, and engaging prospective candidates who are not actively applying.
• Manage approximately 35% of your time speaking with candidates to assess qualifications, interest, and fit for current and future legal opportunities.
• Handle applicant bids and inbound candidates as a smaller portion of your workload, ensuring they are appropriately screened and progressed.
• Leverage functional sourcing experience to identify specialized legal talent across multiple practice areas and levels.
• Utilize prior legal sourcing and recruiting experience to build targeted pipelines for legal and public policy roles.
• Collaborate with corporate stakeholders and hiring managers to ensure a positive and efficient talent acquisition experience.
• Track and meet sourcing targets and performance indicators related to pipeline health and candidate delivery.
• Apply sound judgment and creativity to refine search strategies, overcome sourcing challenges, and continuously improve recruiting outcomes.
• Perform a variety of recruiting and sourcing tasks with minimal supervision, demonstrating ownership and accountability for results.
• Report to a manager or department leader, providing regular updates on search progress, pipeline status, and candidate activity.

Essential Skills

• At least 5+ years of recruiting experience, including legal recruiting experience.
• Demonstrated functional sourcing experience, particularly for specialized or hard-to-fill roles.
• Proven legal sourcing experience, preferably within the Legal and Public Policy space.
• Corporate talent acquisition, including partnering with internal stakeholders and hiring teams.
• Experience as a legal recruiter managing full-cycle recruitment or advanced sourcing responsibilities.
• Strong ability to calibrate with hiring teams to understand and refine ideal candidate profiles.
• Comfort working with sourcing targets and performance indicators, with a focus on meeting or exceeding goals.
• Capacity to rely on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish recruiting objectives.
• Ability to handle a wide range of recruiting tasks while maintaining quality and timeliness.
• Stable work history with demonstrated commitment to roles, as frequent job hopping is not aligned with this position.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree is preferred but not required.
• Any relevant degrees or certifications are considered a plus.
• Prior experience in a corporate environment supporting legal or public policy functions.
• Proven success in roles that required building and maintaining legal talent pipelines.
• Ability to operate with a wide degree of creativity and latitude in sourcing strategies.
• Strong communication skills for engaging candidates and collaborating with hiring teams.
• Experience working in environments where sourcing performance and targets are closely monitored.

Work Environment

The role operates within a corporate talent acquisition environment focused on legal and public policy hiring. You work closely with hiring managers and department leaders while maintaining a high level of autonomy in your day-to-day sourcing and recruiting activities. The position emphasizes proactive, passive sourcing over reliance on applicant bids, with clear sourcing targets and performance indicators guiding success. You can expect a professional setting that values experience, judgment, and creativity in developing and executing sourcing strategies.C

This is a Contract position based out of Seattle, WA.

The pay range for this position is $55.00 - $55.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a fully onsite position in Seattle,WA.

This position is anticipated to close on Sep 22, 2026.

Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® Platinum Award winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email View email address on ziprecruiter.com for other accommodation options.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.