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Job Description: What You'll Do: The Senior Director, Experienced Advisor Acquisition provides strategic leadership for the firm’s advisor and client-facing talent attraction efforts, ensuring the acquisition of high-quality, growth-oriented professionals aligned with firm values and long-term objectives. This role partners closely with senior leadership, Finance, Business HR, and field leadership to anticipate workforce needs, build proactive pipelines, and deliver a best-in-class candidate experience. The position leads a high-performing recruitment team, drives recruiting technology adoption, and uses data and analytics to continuously optimize outcomes. Here are a few of the key responsibilities you will be a part of: Develop and implement a comprehensive experienced advisor recruitment strategy aligned with enterprise growth goals and workforce planning priorities. Partner with senior business, field, and business HR leaders to anticipate advisor and client-facing talent needs and build scalable, proactive pipelines. Lead and mentor a large team of talent acquisition professionals promoting accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement. Oversee full-cycle recruiting for experienced financial advisors and related client-facing roles, ensuring quality, compliance, and speed-to-fill. Lead higher-touch senior and executive search processes for senior advisors, field leadership, and executive roles, including confidential searches. Establish clear protocols for internal recruiting versus external search firm engagement, negotiating and managing vendor relationships to ensure cost-effective delivery. Ensure a world-class candidate experience across sourcing, interviewing, offer, and onboarding phases. Own and continuously improve recruiting processes, stakeholder communication practices, and feedback loops with hiring managers and candidates. Drive the implementation, optimization, and effective use of Greenhouse ATS, including workflow design, training, reporting, and data integrity. Establish and monitor recruiting metrics and dashboards to drive data-informed decision-making and long-term quality-of-hire outcomes. Company description Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we’re proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns. Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging. People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career. View our Purpose, Inclusion and Citizenship Report. ¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating. Awards and Accolades At Edward Jones, we are building a place where everyone feels like they belong. We're proud of our associates' contributions to the firm and the recognitions we have received. Check out our U.S. awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones Check out our Canadian awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones Awards and Accolades Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Requirements What Experience You'll Need: Bachelor's Degree 15+ years of relevant experience, including experience with: Talent acquisition strategy and workforce planning Experienced advisor and professional services recruiting models Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and recruiting analytics Employment law and recruiting compliance requirements What Could Set You Apart: SPHR, SHRM-SCP, or equivalent professional certification Wealth management or financial services industry dynamics Executive and senior advisor recruiting practices AI-enabled recruiting technologies and automation tools Candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Loui