Senior Associate

Our Company:

As a part of Brookfield’s $416B credit platform, Oaktree is a premier credit manager emphasizing an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investing across credit, equity, and real estate.

Oaktree is committed to cultivating an environment that is collaborative, curious, inclusive and honors diversity of thought. Providing training and career development opportunities and emphasizing strong support for our local communities through philanthropic initiatives are essential to our culture.

Oaktree is wholly owned by Brookfield, a leading global investment firm with more than $1 trillion in assets under management. Brookfield owns and operates high-quality businesses and real assets that provide essential services and form the backbone of the global economy. It invests on behalf of institutions and individuals around the world across infrastructure, renewable power and transition, private equity, real estate, and credit.

For additional information, please visit Oaktree’s website at http://www.oaktreecapital.com/

Scope and Responsibilities:

The Senior Associate, Talent Acquisition is a full cycle recruiter and partner to hiring managers across the organization. The role translates business needs into practical recruiting strategies, leads disciplined selection processes, and delivers a high-quality experience for candidates and internal stakeholders.

The successful candidate combines hands-on recruitment execution with market knowledge, and strong process management. The position manages searches from intake through offer and onboarding while using various recruitment sources, data and systems to improve hiring results.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with hiring managers to clarify talent needs, role scope, organizational context, target candidate profiles, interview plans, and timing.
• Advise stakeholders on the market, competitive positioning, compensation considerations, and realistic search strategies. Draft and refine clear and market appropriate job descriptions that accurately reflect responsibilities and qualifications.

• Establish search milestones and maintain regular communication with hiring teams, escalating risks, market intel or delays when needed.

• Develop tailored sourcing strategies using direct outreach, referrals, internal mobility, research tools, job boards, and other relevant channels.

• Manage external search firms when appropriate, including candidate ownership, service expectations, performance, and agreement terms in coordination with relevant partners.

• Review applications and resumes and conduct interviews to assess overall alignment with the role.

• Maintain a respectful, responsive, and transparent candidate experience throughout the process, including appropriate disposition and follow up.

• Conduct references and coordinate any pre-employment steps.

• Lead offer discussions, address candidate questions and manage negotiations.

• Leverage Workday to manage requisitions, candidate activity, interview feedback, offers, and other records.

• Use recruiting data and stakeholder feedback to identify bottlenecks, improve processes, and support informed resource decisions.

• Gather and proactively share market intelligence and sourcing practices with Talent Acquisition colleagues.

• Follow up with hiring managers after placement to understand new hire integration, capture lessons learned and improve future searches.

• Involvement in other tasks as necessary.

Experience Required:

• Minimum 5 years demonstrated experience managing full cycle recruiting processes in a corporate recruiting or executive search environment.

• Experience within investment management or financial services a plus.

• Strong direct sourcing and candidate assessment capabilities.

• Ability to manage multiple searches and stakeholders simultaneously while maintaining accuracy, responsiveness, and sound judgment.

• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the credibility to advise hiring managers and represent the organization professionally in the market.

• Working knowledge of applicant tracking systems, AI and recruiting technology; experience with Workday is strongly preferred.

• Discretion in handling confidential information and a consistent commitment to fair recruiting practices.

• Demonstrated contribution to process improvement, employer branding, talent programs, or recruiting technology initiatives.

• Builds trust, manages expectations, and addresses difficult issues directly and constructively.

• Highly collaborative in working across stakeholders and HR colleagues. 

Education

Bachelor’s degree required.

Base salary range: $105,000 - $125,000. In addition to base salary, Oaktree offers a competitive benefits package and performance based bonus.

Equal Opportunity Employment Policy

Oaktree is committed to diversity and to equal opportunity employment. Oaktree does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present physical or mental disability, HIV status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran status, military service, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic violence victim status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state and local laws and ordinances. This policy applies to hiring, placement, internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, recruitment advertising, transfers, demotions, layoffs, terminations, recruitment advertising, rates of pay and other forms of compensation and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment. This policy applies to all Oaktree applicants, employees, clients, and contractors. Staff members wishing to report violations or suspected violations of this policy should contact the head of their department or Human Resources.

For positions based in Los Angeles

For those applying for a position in the city of Los Angeles, the firm will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.