Fractional Law Firm Recruiter (Full Time Role)
$90,000–$90,000 year
HybridPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Job Summary
Own full-cycle recruiting for assigned client law firms across attorneys, paralegals, administrative, and operations roles. Partner with stakeholders to build job blueprints, source and screen candidates using structured methodologies, and manage the end-to-end pipeline with weekly status updates. Support offer structuring and negotiation while tracking KPIs like time-to-fill and quality-of-hire. Manage the candidate pipeline and communication end-to-end, providing clients a weekly search-status update. Support offer structuring and negotiation on behalf of the client, ensuring compensation is realistic and competitive for a small/mid-sized firms. Track and report recruiting KPIs (time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, quality-of-hire, retention) to both the client and SMB Team leadership. Assist and support internal recruiting as needed. SMB Team is a rapidly-growing marketing agency and coaching business for lawyers.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of recruiting experience with a demonstrated mix of agency and in-house recruiting
- Proven track record recruiting for small-to-mid-sized businesses
- Experience recruiting across multiple role types (professional, administrative, operations), not a single specialty
- Working knowledge of the business cost of a bad hire, and the discipline to prioritize fit and long-term retention over speed-to-close while still maintaining hiring velocity
- Strong consultative and stakeholder-management skills; comfortable operating as a trusted advisor to firm owners and Managing Partners, not a transactional vendor; including driving a processes/deadlines with client deliverables
- Demonstrated process discipline — follows a structured hiring methodology rather than an intuition-only approach
- Strong written and verbal communication — represents SMB Team directly to clients and candidates
- Must have proven success in outbound recruiting (not just hiring through in-bound applicants)
- Must have experience recruiting for a minimum of 5 roles at a given time, ideally 10+
- Must have above average technical abilities and proven success using technology and AI
- Must be able to lift 50 lbs
Desired Qualifications
- Legal recruiting experience preferred by not required
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