About PowerSchool
At PowerSchool, we power education for students around the world. As a global leader in cloud-based K-12 education technology, we help schools operate more effectively and support better outcomes for educators, students, and families.
Our Talent Acquisition team connects exceptional people to meaningful work. We aim to set the standard in EdTech for innovation, service, experience, and inclusion, while ensuring every hire strengthens PowerSchool and empowers the customers we serve.
ResponsibilitiesAbout the Role
As a Principal Talent Acquisition Consultant, you will do more than "recruit". You will own the hiring success of the GTM (Go-To-Market; Sales) organization serving as a trusted business advisor, a talent market expert, and the lynchpin for an exceptional customer and candidate experience.
As a Principal Talent Acquisition Consultant for GTM, you are a full life cycle talent advisor for our Sales organization, collaborating with and guiding our sales team, from the SDR to the CRO, focusing and facilitating their hiring of commercial, revenue-generating and leadership roles across the globe.
What You Will Do
- Partner directly with the CRO, executive, and hiring leaders to understand business objectives, team needs, and the outcomes each hire must deliver and consult on market compensation, talent availability, and strategic recruitment.
- Build recruiting strategies using market insight, sourcing data, compensation context, and candidate evidence.
- Manage multiple searches while maintaining responsiveness, quality, accuracy, and a strong candidate experience.
- Proactively identify and engage active and passive candidates through professional networks, sourcing platforms, referrals, events, and AI-enabled tools.
- Conduct structured, behavioral interviews to assess skills, experience, competencies, motivation, and readiness for the role.
- Provide clear candidate recommendations and respectfully challenge assumptions when the evidence, market, or business need suggests a different approach.
- Build long-term relationships and talent communities across PowerSchool and the EdTech market.
- Continuously improve recruiting practices, tools, processes, and experiences.
What Will Help You Succeed
Required Skills and Experience
- 8 to 10+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a strong emphasis on commercial or GTM functions within edtech, start-up, or scaling sales environments.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent requisitions across different functions or levels.
- Demonstrated success developing consultative relationships at all levels in a sales organization.
- Experience using behavioral interviewing techniques and translating evidence into candidate recommendations.
- Experience advising hiring leaders throughout the recruiting and selection process.
- Experience using an applicant tracking system and sourcing technologies.
- Ability to travel approximately 10% to 15% for business needs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience recruiting in GTM (go-to-market; sales) teams within SaaS, technology, EdTech, or another complex professional environments.
- Staffing or executive search experience.
- Workday Recruiting experience.
- Experience using AI-enabled recruiting or sourcing tools.
- PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, or comparable certification.
The Capabilities That Matter
Success in this role requires strong business acumen, sound judgment, clear communication, and the ability to influence through trust rather than authority. You must be able to confidently and competently:
- Translate business needs into recruiting strategy.
- Advise leaders with confidence and credibility.
- Build relationships across levels and functions.
- Use market insight and evidence to improve hiring decisions.
- Create proactive talent pipelines before needs become urgent.
- Balance ownership and urgency with thoughtful judgment.
- Deliver a customer and candidate experience built on ownership, urgency, relationships and service.
Location and Travel
This is a hybrid position in our Plano, TX corporate office.
Regular onsite presence is expected based on team and business needs. Occasional travel of approximately 10% to 5% may be required.
Compensation
Actual compensation may vary based on relevant skills and experience, education, certifications, internal equity, pay ranges, and market data.
Benefits
PowerSchool offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life and disability coverage, 401(k), parental leave, Discretionary Time Off, wellness programs, tuition reimbursement, and additional voluntary benefits.
EEO CommitmentEEO Commitment
PowerSchool is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. PowerSchool is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers PowerSchoolers to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process, please let us know by emailing [email protected].
Skills Required
- 8 to 10+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, emphasizing commercial or GTM functions
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
- Experience managing multiple concurrent requisitions across functions or levels
- Success developing consultative relationships at all levels in a sales organization
- Experience using behavioral interviewing techniques and translating evidence into candidate recommendations
- Experience advising hiring leaders throughout recruiting and selection
- Experience using an applicant tracking system and sourcing technologies
- Ability to travel approximately 10% to 15% for business needs
- Experience recruiting GTM teams within SaaS, technology, EdTech, or complex professional environments
- Staffing or executive search experience
- Workday Recruiting experience
- Experience using AI-enabled recruiting or sourcing tools
- PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, or comparable certification
Powerschool Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Powerschool and has not been reviewed or approved by Powerschool.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, and vision with an HSA option and company HSA match, plus life insurance and short/long‑term disability. Wellness resources such as an Employee Assistance Program and ClassPass are also part of the package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match is offered and highlighted across company materials and job postings. Vesting on the match is described as not immediate.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Discretionary Time Off (unlimited PTO) for many U.S. roles and paid holidays are emphasized, with recent postings confirming the DTO approach. Paid parental leave is also cited in company materials.
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What We Do
PowerSchool is a leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America. Its mission is to empower educators, administrators, and families to ensure personalized education for every student journey. PowerSchool offers end-to-end product clouds that connect the central office to the classroom to the home with award-winning products including Schoology Learning and Naviance CCLR, so school districts can securely manage student data, enrollment, attendance, grades, instruction, assessments, human resources, talent, professional development, special education, data analytics and insights, communications, and college and career readiness. PowerSchool supports over 60 million students in more than 90 countries and over 18,000 customers, including more than 90 of the top 100 districts by student enrollment in the United States.
