Senior Associate, Talent & Culture

The Atlantic is seeking a Senior Associate, Talent & Culture to help power our hiring efforts and ensure an exceptional experience for candidates, hiring managers, and colleagues. This role sits at the center of our recruiting function, combining meticulous operational execution with opportunities to contribute directly to talent identification and assessment.

The right candidate is exceptionally organized, highly responsive, and energized by creating order from complexity. You’ll be responsible for keeping searches moving, maintaining the integrity of our systems and processes, and ensuring that every candidate interaction reflects the care, professionalism, and rigor that define The Atlantic.

Most importantly, you’re someone who enjoys making teams more effective. You notice what needs attention before anyone asks, you keep projects moving, and you understand that excellent recruiting depends on both outstanding people skills and flawless execution.

This position reports to the Director, Talent & Culture.

Responsibilities

• Support searches from requisition through offer, ensuring an exceptional experience for candidates, hiring managers, and interviewers.

• Manage recruiting operations in Workday, including job postings, candidate movement, data integrity, documentation, and reporting.

• Coordinate interview scheduling and logistics, including complex interview loops and onsite visits.

• Maintain recruiting documentation, trackers, assessments, intake notes, and hiring records with accuracy and attention to detail.

• Serve as a primary point of contact for candidates and manage recruiting inbox communications.

• Support hiring teams by documenting intake meetings, coordinating assessments, collecting interview feedback, and managing candidate materials.

• Prepare offer letters and other employment-related documentation, and coordinate background checks and pre-employment processes.

• Ensure compliance with internal policies, collective bargaining agreement requirements, and recruiting best practices.

• Conduct initial resume reviews, phone screens, and other recruiting support activities as needed.

• Identify opportunities to improve recruiting processes, systems, and the overall candidate experience.

Qualifications

• 1–4 years of experience in recruiting coordination, recruiting operations, talent acquisition, executive support, people operations, or a similarly detail-oriented role.

• Extraordinary organizational skills and a proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

• Strong follow-through and a reputation for reliability and accuracy.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience coordinating complex schedules and managing competing priorities.

• Ability to handle confidential information with discretion and sound judgment.

• Experience working in Workday or a comparable HRIS preferred.

• Comfort working with large volumes of information, data, and administrative detail.

• Advanced to exceptional Excel and Google sheets skills

• Experience in media, publishing, journalism, or another fast-paced, mission-driven organization is a plus.

• Interest in recruiting and talent acquisition, with a desire to grow into broader recruiting responsibilities and full life cycle position ownership

This position is based in Washington, D.C.

Salary minimum: $74,000; Salary maximum: $85,000

About The Atlantic:

The Atlantic has, for more than 160 years, advanced ideas that matter and sparked global conversation on the most important issues of our time. We aim to bring clarity and original thinking to questions of consequence, on topics ranging from politics, the economy, and global affairs to technology, science, and culture. As the third-longest-running magazine in America, we find ourselves at a remarkable moment: one of both continuation and transformation, of upholding our legacy while continuously reinventing ourselves for the future.

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The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC ("The Atlantic") is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Atlantic is committed to diversity and encourages members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, LGBTQ people, people of color, and people with disabilities. We do not discriminate against our applicants because of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.  

Job offers to work at The Atlantic are contingent upon the candidate’s successful completion of reference checks and compliance with The Atlantic's COVID-19 vaccination policy. The Atlantic requires all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, including subsequent boosters, and submit proof of vaccination status. Employees who cannot receive the vaccine because of a disability/medical contraindication or sincerely-held religious belief may request an accommodation (e.g., an exemption) to this requirement.