About this role
Don’t inherit a recruiting machine. Build one that disrupts the industry. Most law firms protect what already works. We are building what does not exist yet. Jimerson Birr is rewriting what a commercial law firm can be, and talent is the engine that makes it run. If you want to disrupt a stale model, prove that ambition and craft can scale together, and be part of something bigger than your own résumé, this is your seat. Bring the nerve to break what should have changed years ago and the discipline to build what replaces it.
We are business lawyers who take ownership. Our clients trust us with their rights, businesses, properties, investments, and finances, and we treat that trust as a lasting responsibility. We represent some of the world’s most respected companies, start-up visionaries, and individuals determined to overcome a challenge. Every one of them gets a team that gets close to the problem and close to the people who can solve it. For more than a decade, that approach has earned local, state, and national awards as a Best Company to Work For, a Fastest Growing Company, and one of the Best Law Firms in America.
That is the culture you would join, and it rewards a specific kind of leader. If you take ownership without being asked, earn the trust of founders, executives, and rainmakers, and set a bar that makes great people want to be held to it, you will win here. A firm that has grown this fast needs someone who can recruit at the same pace.
Your mission
- get so good at hiring it feels a little unfair Our Talent Acquisition Department exists for two reasons: so that talent never again limits Jimerson Birr’s growth, and so that exceptional people choose JB, recommend JB, and do the best work of their careers here.
- We set the destination and the first version of the scoreboard.
- You own the route.
- How the work gets done belongs to you, and no ceiling on what you can build.
- Recruit ahead of demand.
- Turn the firm’s growth plans and workforce forecasts into talent supply plans, so priority seats carry qualified pipelines and warm benches before they open.
- When a critical role opens, JB should never be starting from zero.
- Run recruiting like a sales business.
- Target, prospect, nurture, qualify, persuade, close, and learn.
- Every loss has a documented reason, and every source has to earn its keep.
- Win Free Agency.
- Lead the pursuit of experienced attorneys, practice leaders, lateral teams, and specialized talent.
- Mobilize specialty recruiters, Talent Ambassadors, referrals, and your own credibility, and step in personally when the close matters most.
- Build through the Draft.
- Turn law schools, universities, trade schools, clerkships, and veteran pathways into one firmwide early-talent system that converts promising people into JB professionals—not a calendar of disconnected events.
- Select on evidence, and prove it at 90 days.
- Hold structured, job-related standards built on GWC and our Core Values.
- Hiring managers decide; you make sure they decide well.
- Every hire is validated at 90 days, because quality of hire, not volume, is how we learn what works.
- Own the Employer of Choice story and make JB FOR ME real.
- Build one truthful, evidence-based employer proposition, proven by real employees.
- Lead JB FOR ME across Fulfilled, Opportunistic, Refreshed, Mindful, and Empowered with a rhythm people feel and follow-through they can see.
- Build leverage, not bureaucracy.
- Eliminate, simplify, automate, then delegate.
- Your TA Operations & Systems Manager, AI, vendors, and offshore support handle the detail of a department that runs on systems, so you can stay on the big moves.
- Keep score and win.
- One number defines the department: approved seats filled by a hire who starts on or before the planned date.
- You own the scoreboard, you are incentivized by the results, and you report straight to the CEO.
- This mission rewards a particular wiring: a self-starter who sees the target before anyone else, competes to win, solves problems without waiting for permission, and finishes what they start.