RemoteLegalStaff exists because there are incredibly talented legal professionals all over the world who've never had a shot at the U.S. legal market. We place and fully manage remote legal staff for U.S. law firms, hiring from Latin America, the Philippines, South Africa, and beyond.
We're growing fast, and we don't just place people and disappear. We train them, manage them, go to bat for them, and help them build real careers.
Our external recruiting team is the engine behind all of it, and you'll own that engine.
This isn't a role where you set direction from a distance and hope the team executes; every candidate who reaches a client reflects the standard you've built with your team. When it works, you join the mission of placing someone on the other side of the world who lands an opportunity that changes their trajectory, twelve times over, through every recruiter you lead.
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About the role
As Recruitment Manager,
you'll lead our external recruiting team — the specialists in legal talent recruitment across LATAM, the Philippines, and South Africa.
You are taking charge of a team that's strong on volume but has lost ground on quality. Assessment failures have been growing faster than applications, and speed gains haven't been translating into filled placements. Your first job isn't to add more process between interview and decision — it's to figure out why that gap exists and close it, starting with making sure the person who interviews a candidate is accountable for whether that candidate is actually right for a client, not just whether they cleared a step.
This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll set the standard for how we screen and assess candidates, hold your team to it, and scale a recruiting function defined by depth — where every candidate who reaches a client has been genuinely understood, not just processed. You'll be both a player and a coach: close enough to the work to si