Head of Talent Acquisition

Job Description

CSC Generation is the AI-native holding company re-engineering omni-channel retail. We acquire iconic brands and transform them with Genesis—our operating platform unifying a Data Fabric, Automation Engine, proprietary tools, and shared services—to modernize operations, elevate customer experience, and expand margins.

With $1B+ in revenue across 13 brands, our portfolio includes Sur La Table, Backcountry, One Kings Lane, and more—premier home and outdoor banners that double as real-world innovation hubs. CSC Generation continues to grow through M&A, revitalizing companies with strong brand recognition and loyal customers.

We’re hiring a Head of Talent Acquisition (Senior Manager or Director level) who combines deep talent acquisition expertise with a genuine fluency in AI tooling and automation. This is not a role for someone who uses AI as a productivity add-on — it’s for a recruiter who has fundamentally rewired how they source, assess, and close talent using modern AI platforms, and who can develop and lead a recruiting function that operates the same way.

You will design and operate a recruiting engine that is fast, data-driven, and continuously improving, embedded directly into CSC Generation’s operating rhythm and aligned with the Genesis platform’s broader mission of replacing manual processes with intelligent automation.

This is a high-ownership, hands-on leadership role with direct business impact.

Reporting into the Chief Administrative Officer, you’ll partner with brand CEOs and platform leaders to build the teams that power our portfolio.

What You Get to Do

• Own full-cycle recruiting across technical, commercial, and operational roles for CSC Generation and its portfolio brands, from sourcing through offer.
• Lead and scale an AI-augmented recruiting function that uses automation and predictive analytics to deliver exceptional hiring outcomes (speed, quality, candidate experience).
• Design, implement, and measure recruiting workflows enhanced by AI tools (e.g., resume analytics, candidate matching, conversational agents, forecasting models) to increase efficiency with human oversight.
• Partner directly with brand CEOs and functional leaders to translate business growth plans into talent strategies with clear pipelines, timelines, and success metrics.
• Develop data infrastructure for recruiting, tracking funnel performance, source quality, offer acceptance rates, and early tenure outcomes to continuously improve the function.
• Champion AI-first thinking across the HR function, identifying opportunities to embed intelligence into candidate experience, hiring manager workflows, and onboarding.
• Evaluate, select, and operationalize emerging recruiting technologies to keep CSC Generation at the leading edge of talent acquisition.
• Mentor and grow a high-performing recruiting team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and experimentation.

What You Bring

• 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with at least 2 years in a senior or lead capacity, ideally within a high-growth, multi-brand, or holding company environment in the tech, ecommerce, and/or retail industries.
• Demonstrated, hands-on experience building recruiting workflows using AI tools, including AI-assisted sourcing platforms, automated outreach sequencing, screening automation, and recruiting analytics dashboards.
• A genuine belief that AI is not a feature but a foundation and a track record of redesigning recruiting processes around that principle rather than layering AI onto legacy workflows.
• Strong proficiency with modern ATS platforms and the ability to evaluate, implement, and integrate new recruiting technology with minimal IT dependency.
• Experience recruiting across technical functions (engineering, data science, product) as well as commercial and operational roles.
• The analytical instincts to build and maintain recruiting metrics that actually drive decisions: funnel conversion, source ROI, time-to-fill, quality of hire, and retention correlation.
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and take recruiting problems from zero to a functioning, measurable solution.
• Excellent communication and influence skills including comfort with presenting talent strategy and pipeline health directly to senior operators and CEOs.

Why This Role Is Different

• Most recruiting functions focus on pipeline management and process execution. At CSC Generation, you’ll design and evolve how talent is sourced, evaluated, and hired by embedding AI, automation, and predictive decision-making directly into recruiting workflows, shaping how the company thinks about talent acquisition in an AI-first organization.
• You’ll have the mandate, the resources, and the organizational support to build recruiting the way it should be built: automated where automation wins, human where judgment matters, and always improving based on data.
• If you’ve been waiting for a company that takes AI-first seriously across the entire organization, not just in engineering, this is it.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

For US-based candidates, this posting is intended for candidates that reside in the following states:

AZ, DE, FL, GA, IN, LA, MI, MS, MO, NV, NC, OK, PA, TN, TX, UT, WV, WI, and WY.

Our preference is for candidates who reside near our hubs in Northwest Indiana, Austin, Texas, and Toronto, Ontario.

The CSC family of brands provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state or local laws.

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie-detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

The CSC family of brands is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact [email protected].

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.