Skilled Trades Recruiting Team Leader

Most recruiting leadership roles are reporting and supervision.

This is not that.

This role is for a recruiter who has already proven they can deliver results and is ready to lead other recruiters to do the same. The companies we support are plumbers, HVAC companies, electricians, and construction businesses across the United States. When they cannot hire, revenue stops.

This leader is responsible for both outcomes and standards. You will still understand recruiting deeply enough to diagnose problems, but your primary job is to raise the performance of the recruiting team.

Our recruiters must instill confidence with clients. Skilled trades owners are busy operators running real businesses. They do not need someone passively collecting resumes. They need a recruiting team that understands their labor market, understands their business pressures, and can guide the hiring process with authority.

As the Recruiting Team Leader, you set that standard.

Authority is earned by proving we understand client needs, sometimes better than they do. The best leaders here anticipate problems, correct weak recruiting practices, and ensure the team moves hiring processes forward without waiting to be told what to do.

If you are someone who avoids difficult conversations or hesitates to hold people accountable for performance, this role will frustrate you. If you like improving people, sharpening recruiting standards, and driving hiring outcomes across multiple clients, you will do well here.

We are not building a team of job order takers. We are building a team of recruiters who take responsibility for the hiring outcome.

What We Value In This Role

• Ownership and accountability

  You take responsibility for team performance. When hiring slows down across the team, you diagnose the breakdown and adjust the approach. You do not wait for direction.

• Recruiting mastery

  You must be a strong recruiter yourself. Leaders here earn credibility because they understand sourcing, screening, candidate evaluation, and recruiting funnels. You know what great recruiting looks like and can coach others to execute it.

• Coaching and talent development

  Your job is to raise the performance of the recruiting team. That requires structured feedback, clear expectations, and consistent coaching. You are comfortable correcting mistakes and helping recruiters improve quickly.

• Critical thinking

  You understand recruiting as a funnel and can diagnose breakdowns across multiple roles and clients. Candidate volume, candidate quality, response time, interview speed, offer competitiveness, and follow-up discipline all affect outcomes.

• Relentless coachability

  Leadership here still requires learning. You must be open to feedback, willing to refine your leadership approach, and committed to getting better at developing people and running recruiting operations.

• Commitment to the client outcome

  Our clients rely on us to help them hire people who keep their businesses running. You ensure the recruiting team operates with urgency, discipline, and a focus on real hiring results.

• Technology competence

  Our work runs through systems. Slack, HubSpot, Recruitee, Google Workspace, and AI tools are part of daily operations. You must be comfortable monitoring team activity and maintaining visibility across recruiting pipelines.

• Communication quality

  Your English must be strong. Leaders communicate constantly with recruiters, internal leadership, and clients. Clear written communication is essential.

What You Will Do

• Recruiter leadership and coaching

  Lead, mentor, and develop a team of recruiters responsible for skilled trades hiring across multiple clients.

• Performance management

  Track recruiting performance, identify gaps, and coach recruiters to improve sourcing, screening, and candidate quality.

• Recruiting strategy oversight

  Ensure each client’s recruiting strategy is executed correctly and adjusted when results slow down.

• Pipeline visibility and accountability

  Monitor recruiting pipelines and make sure candidates are moving through the process quickly.

• Quality control

  Ensure candidate submissions meet quality standards and recruiters are properly evaluating experience and fit.

• Cross-team coordination

  Work with internal teams to ensure recruiting operations run smoothly and client expectations are met.

Who This Role Is For

This role fits someone who is:

• Highly organized and disciplined in a remote environment

• Experienced in recruiting and confident in coaching others

• Strong in written and spoken English

• Comfortable holding people accountable to performance standards

• Focused on outcomes rather than activity

This role is not for someone who avoids accountability conversations or prefers to stay purely in an individual contributor role.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation

• Starting salary $1,600 USD per month

• Performance review after 90 days with compensation adjustment based on performance.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO after 90 days

• Fully remote work from anywhere in the Philippines

• Long-term stability. The company is profitable with consistent growth

• Opportunity for promotion and career advancement

• Paid via direct deposit with no platform transfer fees

How To Apply

Submit your resume and complete the screening process. Qualified applicants will be invited to interview with our recruiting leadership team.

• 5+ years of experience in recruiting or talent acquisition

• Proven experience managing full-cycle recruiting

• Prior experience mentoring or leading recruiters strongly preferred

• Excellent written and spoken English communication

• Strong critical thinking and recruiting evaluation skills

• Comfortable working U.S. business hours

• Ability to lead a remote team and maintain accountability

• Reliable internet connection with backup contingency for power or internet interruptions

Strongly Preferred

• Experience recruiting for skilled trades or construction roles

• Experience recruiting for U.S. companies

• Experience using recruiting systems such as HubSpot, Recruitee, and Slack

Yellowstone Local is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.