Director, Talent Acquisition- Engineering

Director, Talent Acquisition- Engineering

Towson, MD- Hybrid

Come make the world and accelerate your success.

It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of approximately 43,500 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.

The Director, Talent Acquisition - Engineering leads the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of talent acquisition for the engineering function. This role builds and manages a high-performing team of recruiters dedicated to hiring firmware engineers, embedded systems engineers, infrastructure/platform engineers, engineering managers, and technical leadership across the organization. The Director partners closely with engineering leadership (VPs/Directors of Engineering), HR Business Partners, and Total Rewards to design hiring strategies that scale with business growth while maintaining a high bar for talent quality, candidate experience, and diversity of hiring. This role is especially critical in periods of rapid team build-out and in markets where competition for specialized engineering talent is intense, requiring creative sourcing strategies, strong employer branding, and the ability to stand up hiring capacity quickly without sacrificing quality.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Management

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of recruiters focused on engineering hiring, setting individual and team performance goals

• Own headcount planning, workload distribution, and capacity/utilization across the team relative to open requisition volume

• Build recruiter career pathing, onboarding, and ongoing skills development (technical sourcing, competency-based interviewing, negotiation)

• Foster a high-accountability, data-driven team culture

Strategy & Stakeholder Partnership

• Serve as the primary TA partner to engineering leadership, translating org growth plans into hiring strategy and forecasts

• Build trusted relationships with hiring managers to align on role scoping, leveling, competencies, and interview design

• Advise engineering leaders on market compensation trends, talent availability, and competitive positioning

• Design rapid-scale hiring playbooks (surge sourcing, accelerated interview loops, hiring events) to stand up new engineering teams or functions quickly without compromising quality bar

• Develop geo-specific talent strategies for constrained or highly competitive labor markets, including remote/distributed hiring, relocation incentives, and alternative talent pools (bootcamps, military transition, upskilling programs)

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Operations & Metrics

• Own engineering recruiting funnel metrics: time-to-fill, time-to-offer, source mix, offer-accept rate, and pipeline conversion

• Build and maintain requisition reporting and dashboards (e.g., in Workday or ATS of record) for leadership visibility

• Drive process improvements across sourcing, screening, interview loops, and offer management to increase speed and quality of hire

• Manage vendor and agency relationships as needed, including contract recruiting resources

Programs & Innovation

• Evaluate recruiting technology and AI-enabled sourcing/screening tools to improve team efficiency

• Partner with employer branding to build engineering-specific talent attraction campaigns

• Design and scale employee referral programs specific to engineering talent

• Build competitive candidate value propositions (compensation positioning, career growth narrative, mission/product story) to win highly sought-after engineering talent against well-resourced competitors

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Required Qualifications:

• 8-10+ years of full-cycle technical/engineering recruiting experience, including 5+ years in a people-management role-leading recruiter within the manufacturing industry.

• Proven track record scaling engineering hiring in a high-growth or fast-paced environment, including rapidly building out new teams from the ground up

• Demonstrated success recruiting in tight or highly competitive talent markets and/or difficult geographies (e.g., limited local talent supply, high competition from established tech employers, relocation-dependent hiring)

• Deep understanding of engineering roles, leveling frameworks, and technical competencies (firmware, electrical, embedded, backend, frontend, infrastructure, ML/AI, etc.)

• Strong command of recruiting metrics, ATS platforms ( Workday), and reporting/analytics

• Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience partnering directly with senior engineering leaders

• Familiarity with AI-driven sourcing/recruiting tools

• Prior experience building recruiting functions during periods of rapid growth

The Details:

You’ll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan, including:

• Medical, dental, life, vision, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being.
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.

And More:

We want our company to be a place you’ll want to be - and stay. Being part of our team means you’ll get to:

• Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
• Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our digital learning portal.
• Belong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for a wide range of perspectives and experiences.
• Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back, and sustainable business practices.

What’s more, you’ll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors, and everyday heroes all over the world. We’re more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We’re visionaries and innovators. As successful as we’ve been in the past, we have so much further to go. That’s where you come in. Join us!

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship (H1B, OPT/CPT, TN etc).

• This is the lowest to highest annual full-time salary range we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. The salary offered within the range may vary depending on multiple factors including job level, geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience and in compliance with local wage requirements. Please note that salary is only one component of total rewards at Stanley Black & Decker.

• The salary range listed in this job posting reflects the range for the primary location specified. The salary range may vary for other locations.

• The successful candidate may be eligible for annual merit increases.

• Medical, dental, life, vision, disability,401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being.

• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tool sand other partner programs.

We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 43,500 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are

We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

What You’ll Also Get

Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Benefits & Perks

You’ll get a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits plan that includes medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, disability, retirement benefits, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Paid Time Off, including paid vacation, holidays & personal days, and tuition reimbursement. And, of course, discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and products and well as discount programs for many other vendors and partners.

Learning & Development:

Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

Diverse & Inclusive Culture:

We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.

Purpose-Driven Company:

You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.

EEO Statement:

All qualified applicants to Stanley Black & Decker are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran’s status or any other protected characteristic.

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