Director, Talent Strategy

Role Summary 

We move fast — 4X faster than the fastest organizations — and we deliver. GeneDx is scaling quickly and we need a Talent leader who can match our velocity, drive a strategic transformation, and enable our recruiters to spend more time doing what matters: sourcing and closing exceptional people. 

We’re hiring a Director of Talent Strategy to lead a small, high-performing recruiting team and own a full-scale transformation of how Talent works at GeneDx. You will select, implement, and drive adoption of best-in-class technology and systems so our Talent team can shift from administrative execution to proactive sourcing, strategic business partnership, and executive search. You will personally lead key leadership searches (SVP → C-suite), design simple scalable processes, and use metrics and root-cause problem solving to continuously improve velocity and quality. This role is equal parts operator, project manager, change agent, and executive recruiter — you will drive the rocket ship. 

What you’ll own 

• Lead and coach a small team of recruiters to deliver exceptional hiring outcomes while maintaining alignment and speed. 

• Architect and execute the Talent technology roadmap: evaluate, select, implement, and operationalize ATS/CRM, automation, hiring analytics, assessment tools, and sourcing platforms.

• Drive adoption and change management across Talent and hiring stakeholders so tools and processes are embedded and deliver measurable capacity gains. 

• Shift recruiter time allocation away from transactional work toward active sourcing, stakeholder partnership, candidate engagement, and assessment. 

• Own and personally execute senior- and executive-level searches (SVP → C-suite) using advanced sourcing, networking, assessment, and outreach playbooks. 

• Define and own Talent KPIs and dashboards (e.g., time-to-fill, time-to-hire, pipeline velocity, quality-of-hire, offer acceptance, recruiter capacity, adoption metrics), and use them to identify friction points and drive simplification. 

• Lead cross-functional projects to remove blockers, streamline decisioning, and shorten hiring cycles while protecting candidate experience. 

• Conduct root-cause analysis on hiring bottlenecks and design elegant, sustainable solutions that scale with growth. 

• Partner closely with business leaders and HR partners to forecast needs, develop talent pipelines, and design role-specific assessment frameworks. 

• Manage vendor relationships and procurement for Talent tech and assessment partners. 

What success looks like in 6–12 months 

• Deliver on a Talent technology roadmap in 2026 and measurable adoption results. 

• Recruiter time rebalanced: significant reduction in transactional activity and measurable increase in proactive sourcing and hiring manager engagement. 

• Continued or improved speed-to-hire (current benchmark: 35 days), with improvements in pipeline health and candidate quality. 

• Lightweight, metrics-driven cadence for Talent (dashboards + weekly/biweekly reviews) that drives continuous improvement and Talent Pulse. 

What we’re looking for 

• 15+ years of Talent Acquisition/People Ops experience with at least 5 years leading teams and Talent transformations. 

• Proven track record selecting, implementing, and driving adoption of Talent technology (ATS, CRM, automation, analytics, assessment tools). 

• Hands-on experience leading executive searches (SVP → C-suite) with creative sourcing and high-touch processes such as modern sourcing stacks (Boolean + AI sourcing tools, candidate rediscovery, talent communities).  

• Exceptional project management skills — deliver complex, cross-functional projects on time and with impact. 

• Deep strength in root-cause problem solving and operational simplification. 

• Metrics-first mindset: comfortable building and using dashboards, running experiments, and driving decisions from