Job Description

Contract Recruiter (Remote, Part-Time)

January Digital is the Marketing Leadership Company. We solve business challenges through media excellence, strategic guidance, and actionable analytics. Our agency team handles full funnel media planning, execution, and optimization while our consulting team offers true strategic leadership for building successful marketing agencies. All our work is supported with a strong foundation of data and actionable insights which ensure our clients are as successful as possible.

As a company, our motto is to build a company that improves the lives of our clients, our people, and the world around us. We support this mission through a number of efforts including our WORKS program. Good Works is our philanthropy program that ensures we have an outsized impact on our surrounding communities through financial and volunteering efforts. Our Well Works program focuses on the mental, physical, and spiritual health of our employees through required minimum PTO, an annual wellness stipend, fully paid health care, fully paid counseling services, extended parental leave, and much more.

Between our work and our culture, January Digital has been recognized more than 125 times, including being named a Best Place to Work by INC four times, Dallas Business Journal three times, one of Ad Age's Best Places to Work in 2025 and 2026, a 2024 NRF Partner of the Year, a seven-time INC 5000 fastest growing company, and numerous awards for our tactical and strategic excellence with innovative partners like Carhartt and Steve Madden.

At January Digital, we combine deep expertise, creativity, and AI innovation to deliver meaningful results. Our team advances through continuous training that keeps us and our clients ahead. We seek candidates with proven AI skills in developing and refining AI inputs, effective use of key tools, and the ability to apply AI to real business challenges. Equally important are sharp critical thinking and a commitment to using AI responsibly to create lasting impact.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Contract Recruiter to support hiring across the organization, from early-career roles through senior leadership positions. This role will manage the full recruitment lifecycle, ensuring a strong candidate experience while maintaining efficient and organized recruiting operations.

The Recruiter will partner closely with the Director of HR and hiring managers to execute hiring priorities, manage candidate pipelines, and support key recruiting initiatives, including the company's Residency Program.

This is a part-time contract position averaging approximately 25 hours per week, with an hourly rate of up to $80 per hour, depending on experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as an excellent ambassador for January Digital, representing the company's culture, values, and standards throughout the hiring process and ensuring every candidate interaction reflects the January Digital experience.
• Own full-cycle recruitment for approved roles, from intake through offer.
• Recruit across multiple levels, including Coordinator, Manager, Director, and VP roles.
• Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements and hiring strategies.
• Partner with senior stakeholders and executive-level leaders to define hiring needs, align on role scope, and guide recruitment strategy.
• Lead sourcing efforts across LinkedIn and other recruiting platforms to build strong candidate pipelines.
• Conduct recruiter screens and advance qualified candidates through the interview process.
• Facilitate offer discussions within approved compensation bands.
• Ensure a consistent, high-quality candidate experience from first outreach through final decision.
• Maintain consistent communication with hiring teams to confirm role openings, prepare interviewers, and align on interview process expectations and timelines.

Recruiting Operations & Logistics

• Manage interview logistics, scheduling, and panel coordination.
• Ensure interviewers are prepared with appropriate materials and context.
• Maintain recruiting workflows and candidate data within the ATS (Greenhouse).
• Track candidate pipelines and maintain accurate documentation.
• Provide weekly hiring pipeline updates and status reports.
• Draft, refine, and maintain job descriptions in partnership with hiring managers to ensure role clarity, market alignment, and consistency across postings.

Recruiting Strategy Support

• Partner with the Director of HR and Executive team on weekly hiring priorities and workforce planning.
• Provide insights on candidate market trends, compensation expectations, and hiring challenges.
• Support execution of recruiting strategies aligned with company growth plans.

Residency Program Recruitment

• Support recruitment and candidate management for the company's Residency Program.
• Coordinate interviews and evaluation tracking for residency candidates.
• Assist with candidate communication and hiring logistics.

Recruitment Enablement & Vendor Management

• Coordinate interview training logistics and distribute interviewer materials.
• Manage recruiting platforms and vendors (LinkedIn, Willo, Greenhouse and related tools).
• Ensure recruiting tools and workflows are optimized for efficient hiring.

Qualifications

• 7 years full-cycle recruitment experience.
• 5+ years of recruiting or talent acquisition experience, within an advertising, marketing, or digital media agency environment with experience hiring for client services, analytics, and marketing roles.
• Proven experience managing full-cycle recruiting across multiple levels, including leadership roles.
• Strong sourcing experience using LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing tools.
• Experience working within an ATS (Greenhouse preferred).
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to partner effectively with hiring managers and leadership.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple open roles simultaneously in a fast-moving environment.
• Availability to commit to a 6-month contract, with the possibility of extension depending on business needs and performance.

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