Managing Director, Legal Staffing

Managing Director, Legal Staffing - NYC-based Preferred

5+ years legal staffing or legal industry experience required

Hybrid role (3 days in-office)

Are you a legal staffing leader ready to rebuild, not just maintain?

Our client is the legal staffing division of a well-established, privately held staffing organization. Historically the company’s top-performing division, today, the opportunity is to replace lost revenue, rebuild private-sector growth, and modernize leadership.

We’re hiring a Managing Director to own P&L, protect remaining government revenue, and aggressively rebuild private legal staffing across law firms and corporate legal departments.

• Own full P&L responsibility for the legal staffing division
• Protect and stabilize remaining government contract revenue
• Rebuild and scale private-sector legal staffing (temp, temp-to-perm, direct hire)
• Drive new business development — not just service existing accounts
• Establish true sales leadership and pipeline discipline
• Hire, train, and develop a balanced sales + recruiting team
• Strengthen forecasting, revenue planning, and execution visibility
• Serve as a senior client-facing leader with law firms, corporate legal teams, and public‑sector stakeholders

• Proven leader in legal staffing strongly preferred
• Experience pursuing or managing government contracts a major plus
• Track record of building private‑sector legal staffing revenue
• Strong business builder — not purely delivery or recruiting focused
• Comfortable leading through change and resetting expectations
• Strategic thinker who can also sell, coach, and execute

• Legal staffing operations and sales leadership
• P&L ownership and forecasting
• Government contract awareness and risk management
• Business development and enterprise relationship building
• Team building and performance management

• 5+ years in legal staffing or legal industry
• 3+ years in leadership or management roles
• J.D. strongly preferred but not required

• Base salary $150K–$175K with very strong bonus upside
• Historically proven earnings into the high $300
  
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• Full ownership and creative control over growth strategy
• Enterprise legal relationships already in place and receptive buyers

The opportunity to rebuild a once‑dominant business line inside a $100M+ organization