Talent Acquisition Manager, Operation and Strategy

The posting, as Fairstead ESC LLC wrote it

Fairstead is a purpose-driven real estate firm dedicated to building affordable communities across the country. Headquartered in New York, with offices in Colorado, Florida, and Washington DC, Fairstead owns and manages a portfolio of more than 30,000 apartments, including pipeline, across 28 states. As an integrated owner, operator, and innovator, Fairstead brings development, construction, and property management under one unified platform to deliver high-quality affordable housing that serves our residents at scale.

At Fairstead, we believe affordable housing should be thoughtfully designed, professionally managed, and responsibly operated. We seek to create and preserve housing that serves residents while delivering long-term value to communities, partners, and stakeholders.

Fairstead challenges industry norms through our tech-forward, entrepreneurial approach to affordable housing. In addition to core real estate capabilities, we operate innovative service lines designed to improve resident outcomes, strengthen communities, and drive operational efficiency. We embrace digital transformation, data-driven decision-making, and emerging technologies, including AI, to build scalable systems that support sustainable growth, grounded in a culture of entrepreneurship, innovation, partnership, dedication, and integrity.

We're hiring a rare combination: a high-performing, full-cycle recruiter who is equally energized by building the systems that make recruiting scale. You'll design, build, and eventually run a modern, increasingly automated recruiting process for a property management organization with hundreds of team members across the country, while personally sourcing and closing standout talent along the way.

You'll start hands-on. You'll recruit for our highest-priority and hardest-to-fill roles across our markets, and get close enough to the day-to-day pain points to know exactly what needs to be fixed. From there, you'll partner with our team to design the process, tools, and automation that let us consistently hire high performers, faster and more consistently, and then own that process going forward. As the function matures, you'll have the opportunity to build and lead a small recruiting team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Recruit

• Run full-cycle recruiting for property management roles, from site-level and community teams up through regional and portfolio-level positions.
• Manage and mentor property management recruiting team
• Source and close high-performing talent in every role, and define clearly what a high performer looks like for each role and market.
• Build a real understanding of how our different markets differ (talent supply, compensation norms, competitive landscape, seasonality) and adjust sourcing and pitch accordingly.
• Act as a strong partner to hiring managers and regional leaders, advising on hiring strategy rather than only filling open requisitions.

Build the Process

• Design and implement a scalable, increasi

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• A track record of building or significantly overhauling a recruiting process or tech stack yourself, rather than only using one someone else built.
• Hands-on experience with an ATS. We currently use Greenhouse, so direct experience there is a strong plus, along with a working knowledge of sourcing, scheduling, and workflow-automation tools.
• Comfort with data: you can build and read a recruiting dashboard, and you make decisions from it.
• The judgment to know what to automate, what still needs a human touch, and when a process is genuinely ready to scale.
• Strong stakeholder management skills: you can influence regional and site-level leaders who don't report to you.
• Understanding (or a fast ability to learn) how recruiting needs differ across geographic markets: labor supply, comp benchmarks, competitive dynamics.

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience recruiting specifically for multifamily, affordable housing, or property management roles.
• Experience with Workday (or leading a Greenhouse-to-Workday integration or migration).
• Experience with AI-powered sourcing, screening, or scheduling tools.
• Experience leading or co-leading an ATS/HRIS implementation or migration.
• Experience recruiting across a large multi-state footprint.
• Prior experience building and managing a small recruiting team.

Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.

Salary Range
$130,000 — $160,000 USD

Diversity in backgrounds and experiences is key to Fairstead’s success. Being an equal opportunity employer is a central tenet of our philosophy that shapes who we are and the communities we serve. Our goal is to ensure competitive total compensation that is commensurate with experience, location, and other market benchmarks.

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