Senior Talent Partner

HighRes is seeking a Senior Talent Partner to join our People team at our headquarters in Beverly, Massachusetts. Reporting to the Vice President of Human Resources, you will lead hiring for our most critical and hard-to-fill roles across engineering, software, field service, applications science, product and corporate functions in the US and UK, including senior and leadership searches.

HighRes is a laboratory automation leader committed to improving human health through life science robotics. Our systems, devices and Cellario® software help pharma, biotech and academic scientists develop new medicines and therapies faster, with more output from every lab. We value innovation, diversity, and hearing every team member’s voice.

The Senior Talent Partner takes on the searches that carry the most weight for the business and helps raise the standard for how HighRes recruits. This role is ideal for an experienced technical recruiter who finds and engages hard-to-reach candidates directly, advises hiring managers and senior leaders on talent strategy, and improves how a growing company hires.

• Manage full-cycle recruiting for 15-20 open requisitions at a time, weighted toward senior, technical and hard-to-fill roles, from intake through offer acceptance
• Lead director-level and executive searches in partnership with HR leadership and the hiring executive
• Source passive candidates directly using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, referrals, and industry networks, with a focus on engineering, robotics, software and life science roles
• Screen candidates for technical fit, motivation, and alignment with HighRes values, and present well-qualified shortlists
• Prepare and negotiate offers using HighRes compensation tools, and close candidates in partnership with HR leadership

• Advise hiring managers and senior leaders on role design, market conditions, compensation, and realistic timelines, and push back when expectations do not match the market
• Lead intake meetings and define interview plans, structured scorecards, and consistent evaluation standards
• Partner with HR leadership on the annual hiring plan, workforce planning, and recruiting capacity
• Support hiring for our UK team, including working with local requirements and market practices

• Coach interviewers, sharing sourcing and interviewing practices
• Manage external agency relationships, including selection, terms, and performance, and reduce reliance on agencies over time by building direct pipelines
• Maintain accurate candidate and requisition data in our applicant tracking system (Paycom), and report on pipeline health, time to fill, offer acceptance, and source effectiveness, with recommendations for improvement
• Strengthen the HighRes employer brand through job postings, outreach messaging, campus and industry events, and a strong candidate experience

This role calls for a recruiter who has led senior and hard-to-fill searches through their own sourcing, advises business leaders with data, and is ready to improve how a growing company recruits. Your success will be built on the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business, life sciences, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 8 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including technical or engineering roles
• Record of filling hard-to-find and senior-level roles primarily through your own sourcing
• Advanced skill with LinkedIn Recruiter and Boolean search
• Experience advising hiring managers and senior leaders, and influencing hiring decisions with data
• Experience supporting senior or executive-level searches
• Strong organization skills and the ability to manage many searches at once in a fast-paced environment
• Clear, professional written and verbal communication

• Recruiting experience in life sciences instrumentation, lab automation, robotics, medical devices, or industrial automation
• Experience recruiting field service engineers, applications scientists, or software engineers
• UK hiring experience
• Experience with Paycom or a comparable HRIS/ATS
• Experience at a growing company of a few hundred employees, building or improving recruiting processes

• Primary work location: HighRes headquarters, Beverly, Massachusetts – hybrid, flexible

This role puts you at the center of how HighRes builds its technical and leadership teams as the company grows. You will advise senior leaders, shape how we recruit in the US and UK, and help build a recruiting team around direct sourcing. If you want to set the standard for talent acquisition at a growing lab automation company, HighRes is the place to do it.

Salary Range: $148,000-175,000, plus annual bonus eligibility