Talent Acquisition Specialist - Sales Agent Recruiting

Drive end-to-end recruiting for sales agent talent by partnering with sales leaders and building proactive pipelines using recruiting technology.

Responsibilities

• Partner with sales leadership to understand recruiting needs, workforce plans, and talent market dynamics.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines for high-performing agency sales candidates through proactive sourcing, networking, referrals, and talent community engagement.
• Design and execute recruiting strategies to attract agency sales candidates in competitive talent markets.
• Provide sales leadership with market intelligence, candidate insights, and recruiting recommendations as a trusted talent advisor.
• Source, screen, interview, and assess candidates while maintaining a strong candidate experience throughout the recruiting lifecycle.
• Use recruiting technologies, data, and talent intelligence platforms to improve recruiting outcomes and pipeline health.
• Represent American Family at recruiting events, industry networking opportunities, career fairs, and agency sales-focused talent initiatives.
• Develop relationships with professional associations, universities, and external talent communities to support long-term pipeline development.
• Use tools including Workday, Beamery, LinkedIn Recruiter, and other sourcing platforms to identify, engage, and nurture prospective candidates.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience delivering customer-driven solutions, support, or service.
• Demonstrated experience and success sourcing and hiring passive candidates for senior-level roles.
• Demonstrated track record working across teams to identify talent needs.
• Demonstrated experience with relationship-building, communication, organization, presentation, negotiation, and analytical skills.
• Comfort and experience engaging with senior-level leaders across the organization and within candidate pools.
• Extensive knowledge of clients’ business strategies and objectives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience recruiting for sales organizations and revenue-generating teams.
• Experience using Workday Recruiting and Beamery.
• Experience leveraging LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing platforms to identify and engage sales talent.
• Insurance, financial services, or corporate sales recruiting experience helpful but not required.

Technology

• Workday
• Beamery
• LinkedIn Recruiter
• Workday Recruiting

Salary

• USD 69,000 - 115,000 per year

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and wellbeing benefits
• Competitive 401(k) contribution
• Pension plan
• Annual incentive
• 9 paid holidays
• Paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees)
• Student loan repayment program
• Paid-family leave

Location and Work Model

• Madison, WI (hybrid)
• Flex office/home role requirement: work a minimum of 10 days per month from an office location (Madison, WI; Phoenix, AZ; Hopkins, MN; Denver, CO; St Joseph, MO; Englewood, CO; Boston, MA; Keene, NH)

Travel and Physical Requirements

• Travel: Up to 10%
• Physical: Work primarily involves sitting/standing

Additional Information

• New Employee Orientation in the first week (in person at Madison, WI Headquarters or an AmFam core location; may be delivered virtually based on scheduling and availability).
• Offer to selected candidate is contingent on results of applicable background checks.
• Offer is contingent on signing a non-disclosure agreement for proprietary information, trade secrets, and inventions.
• Sponsorship will not be considered unless specified in the posting.
• Internal candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of location and will be considered based on role needs.