Talent Acquisition & HR Manager

Kapella Group is hiring an on-site Talent Acquisition & HR Manager in Centennial, CO to help scale recruiting and strengthen HR operations. This role is built for someone who enjoys being hands-on: proactively sourcing, headhunting, and closing top leaders and operational talent, while also supporting onboarding, employee relations, compliance, and scalable HR systems.

Compensation: USD 90,000 - 120,000 per year. On-site: Centennial, CO. Experience: 5+ years.

What you’ll do

• Personally lead recruiting for critical leadership, construction, sales, and operational roles, including Business Development Managers/Directors, Chief and Senior Estimators, Project Managers, Superintendents, Construction Accounting and Corporate roles, Roofing Sales Professionals, Roofing Canvassers, and other operational and leadership positions.
• Act as a recruiting hunter by proactively sourcing and headhunting passive candidates.
• Build pipelines before roles become urgent, using LinkedIn, industry networks, referrals, competitor mapping, direct outreach, job boards, and other sourcing strategies.
• Screen and qualify candidates before presenting them to hiring managers to ensure qualified, relevant shortlists.
• Own the end-to-end recruiting workflow from sourcing through offer and onboarding.
• Maintain accurate ATS pipelines and candidate records, and track recruiting KPIs, pipeline activity, and results.
• Provide consistent reporting on recruiting progress, challenges, and priorities while partnering directly with executive leadership and hiring managers.
• Continuously improve recruiting performance by evaluating compensation, job positioning, sourcing channels, and recruiting strategy.
• Support key HR foundation work, including employee onboarding and integration, employee relations and performance-management support, HR compliance and documentation, and maintaining policies, procedures, and employee records.
• Coordinate benefits and HR/payroll system needs, support management accountability with recurring HR processes, and help build scalable HR systems as the company grows.

What success looks like

• Reliable pipelines for critical positions, with qualified candidates presented consistently.
• Reduced time-to-fill for difficult construction and leadership roles.
• Proactive sourcing channels beyond traditional job boards, improving recruiting quality and hiring consistency.
• Measurable recruiting KPIs and accountability, along with stronger onboarding and HR processes.
• A trusted, responsive partner to executive leadership and department managers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of progressive talent acquisition/recruiting experience.
• Demonstrated success proactively sourcing and recruiting passive candidates.
• Experience recruiting professional, management, sales, or other difficult-to-fill positions.
• Strong sourcing, networking, interviewing, and candidate-closing skills.
• Experience using an ATS, managing recruiting pipelines, and tracking KPIs.
• Organized, responsive, and accountable to deadlines and deliverables, with proactive communication when obstacles arise.
• Ability to work independently while maintaining strong communication with leadership and comfort working directly with the CEO and department leaders.
• Comfort shifting recruiting strategy quickly when an approach is not producing results, while remaining hands-on in daily recruiting and system-building.

Strongly preferred

• Commercial construction recruiting experience (including recruiting Project Managers, Superintendents, Estimators, Construction Accounting professionals, and/or commercial construction Business Development professionals).
• Roofing or specialty-contractor recruiting experience.
• HR management/generalist experience supporting employee relations, onboarding, compliance, policies, and performance management.

Tools and technologies

• ATS, LinkedIn, Indeed

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Why Kapella Group?

• Direct access to executive leadership.
• Opportunity to build and shape the recruiting and HR function.
• Significant influence on the company’s growth.
• Entrepreneurial environment where strong ideas can be implemented quickly.
• Opportunity for increasing responsibility as the company expands.
• Competitive compensation with performance incentives.

Application questions

• How many full-time hires did you personally make during the last 12 months?
• When you have few or no qualified applicants, what is your primary sourcing strategy?
• Describe the most difficult position you have successfully filled and how you found the candidate.

Experience note: Construction Recruiting: 4 years (Preferred)