Talent Acquisition Partner | Retail

Talent Acquisition Partner

Build the Teams. Elevate the Experience. Come Join our People Team.

We’re looking for a Talent Acquisition Partner who knows that great recruiting starts by providing an elevated candidate experience. As one of the top franchisees of European Wax Center, EWC Growth is on track to double its retail footprint over the next two years. And we're just getting started.

This role will own full-cycle recruitment across a portfolio of field, center leadership, and corporate opportunities , with a strong emphasis on high-volume retail recruiting . You’ll partner closely with field leadership and HR to understand hiring needs, build talent pipelines, improve recruiting performance, and ensure our centers have the talent they need to sell.
What You’ll Own

Full-Cycle Recruiting
- Manage the recruitment lifecycle from requisition launch through accepted offer and hire
- Source, screen, interview, and assess candidates across hourly, leadership, and corporate positions
- Build proactive pipelines for high-volume and business-critical roles, including Wax Specialists, Guest Sales Associates, Assistant Center Sales Managers, and Center Sales Directors
- Conduct thoughtful initial screens that evaluate experience, motivation, leadership capabilities, sales orientation, and overall alignment
- Maintain consistent candidate communication and deliver an elevated experience from first touch through close
- Facilitate offer preparation, approvals, extensions, and closing in partnership with hiring leaders and HR

Hiring Manager Partnership
- Serve as a strategic recruiting partner to Center Sales Directors, regional field leadership, and corporate hiring managers
- Conduct intake conversations to understand hiring priorities, ideal candidate profiles, market challenges, compensation, and urgency
- Coach hiring managers on candidate quality, interview practices, selection decisions, and recruiting best practices
- Drive consistent follow-up and accountability throughout the interview process
- Provide market insights and recommend adjustments to sourcing strategy when candidate flow or conversion is below expectations

Sourcing + Talent Pipeline Development + Career Fair Engagement
- Develop creative sourcing strategies across Workable, Indeed, LinkedIn, referrals, direct outreach, and other relevant channels
- Proactively identify passive talent from beauty, wellness, retail, hospitality, fitness, luxury, and other high-touch sales environments
- Build sustainable talent communities rather than relying exclusively on inbound applicants
- Partner with leadership to anticipate hiring needs before they become vacancies
- Continuously test messaging, sourcing channels, and outreach strategies to improve candidate engagement
- Partner with nearby beauty schools to passively source prospective + current graduates from some of the top aesthetics programs in the nation

ATS + Recruiting Operations
- Own candidate and requisition activity within Workable , ensuring accurate documentation throughout the candidate lifecycle
- Create and maintain requisitions/hiring plans and ensure candidates are consistently moved through the appropriate dispositions
- Maintain strong documentation, interview feedback, candidate notes, and recruiting records
- Partner with HR to ensure a smooth transition from candidate to new hire
- Identify opportunities to streamline recruiting workflows, templates, reporting, and candidate communications
- Monitor recruiting KPIs including open requisitions, hires, fill rate, time to fill, candidate pipeline, interview conversion, offer acceptance, and source effectiveness
- Analyze hiring performance by region, center, and position
- Identify aging openings, pipeline bottlenecks, and markets requiring additional sourcing support
- Provide weekly recruiting updates and actionable insights to leadership
- Maintain recruiting trackers and ensure ATS data integrity
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