Senior Director, Talent Acquisition

About this 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 Head of / Sr. Director of Talent Acquisition Strategy to lead a small (4+), 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 so the team can shift from reactive execution to proactive sourcing, strategic business partnership, and executive search. Equally important, you will elevate GeneDx’s employer brand and end-to-end candidate and hiring manager experience—bringing our mission and story to life in a way that attracts people who will thrive here. You’ll also build creative, high-leverage external partnerships that expand our reach into priority talent markets and communities. This role is equal parts strategic visionary and operator, project manager, change agent, and executive recruiter — you will drive the rocket ship.


Job Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise Talent Acquisition strategy aligned to growth plans; translate business priorities into workforce and hiring strategy across functions and levels.
• Elevate TA into a strategic, metrics-driven business partner by strengthening stakeholder operating rhythms (intake, calibration, scorecards, decisioning), building trusted relationships, and using dashboards/KPIs to diagnose bottlenecks and drive continuous improvement.
• Lead, coach, and scale a high-performing TA team and operating model—set standards and quality bars, clarify roles, and rebalance capacity away from low-value work toward proactive sourcing, candidate engagement, and high-signal assessment.
• Architect and operationalize the Talent technology ecosystem (ATS/CRM, automation, analytics...