Talent Intelligence Lead – Job Description
About Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm that helps companies design, build, and motivate their workforce to drive sustainable business performance. We operate across executive search, recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), leadership development, and talent consulting, partnering with organizations to solve complex people and workforce challenges through data, insight, and expertise.
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly analytical and technically strong Talent Intelligence professional who can combine data architecture, AI/LLMs, and predictive analytics to solve complex recruitment and workforce planning challenges. This role partners closely with senior stakeholders to translate talent data into strategic, executive-level insights that influence hiring decisions, location strategies, and competitive talent positioning.
Key Responsibilities
Talent Data Architecture & Systems Integration
- Design and implement scalable data architectures integrating external market data with internal ATS and HR systems
- Build and maintain robust data pipelines to ensure data accuracy, reliability, and governance
- Partner with ATS, HRIS, and external data vendors to enable seamless data integration
- Establish data standards and frameworks to support ongoing talent intelligence initiatives
AI Agents & Recruitment Automation
- Identify recruitment bottlenecks and opportunities for automation
- Define goals, success metrics, and use cases for AI-driven recruitment solutions
- Build, configure, or deploy AI agents using LLM frameworks and automation tools
- Collaborate with stakeholders to drive adoption of AI-enabled hiring solutions
Predictive Analytics & Talent Market Intelligence
- Forecast workforce and hiring needs using historical and market data
- Analyze competitor hiring trends, talent movement, and poaching risks
- Provide insights on talent availability, compensation benchmarks, and cost modeling
- Develop dashboards and visualizations for ongoing talent intelligence tracking
Executive Stakeholder Influence
- Present insights and recommendations to senior leadership and executive stakeholders
- Support location strategy and workforce expansion decisions
- Translate complex data into clear, actionable business insights
- Partner with recruitment leadership to shape hiring strategies
What We're Looking For
- Experience in talent intelligence, workforce analytics, or recruitment analytics
- Strong data architecture and data integration skills
- Understanding of AI/LLMs in a recruitment context
- Strong analytical and stakeholder communication skills
- Demonstrated experience using enterprise AI platforms such as Copilot, ChatGPT Pro, or similar LLM-based tools in a business context.
- Proven builder mindset with the ability to create dashboards, tools, and lightweight applications (including HTML-based outputs) from scratch and scale them across teams.
- This role prioritizes AI-powered insight generation and rapid tool development over traditional BI-only or reporting-focused skillsets.
