Managing Director, Legal Staffing
622 Third Avenue, 39th Floor New York, NY 10017 US
Job Description
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.
What You Will Do:
- 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
What We’re Looking For:
- 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
Required Skills:
- 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
Required Education / Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 5+ years in legal staffing or legal industry
- 3+ years in leadership or management roles
- J.D. strongly preferred but not required
What You Get:
- Base salary $150K–$175K with very strong bonus upside
- Historically proven earnings into the high $300Ks
- 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
Job Number 7719
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Additional Information
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Meet Your Recruiter
Walter Shedd
Executive Recruiter
With over 16 years of experience in sales and recruiting management, Walter Shedd is a seasoned Executive Recruiter at MeeDerby, the leading source for executive search in the Staffing Industry. He has a proven track record of finding and placing qualified candidates for various staffing disciplines and verticals across the nation, leveraging his extensive network, subject matter expertise, and consultative approach.
Walter’s passion is to create lasting and mutually beneficial relationships between clients and candidates, and to help them achieve their growth and success goals. He has a broad and deep knowledge of the Staffing Industry, having worked across all corners of the industry, expanding on his roots in Commercial Staffing. He also has a unique background in visual storytelling, having interned with a photojournalist from TIME Magazine and covered major events such as the 2004 presidential election and the World Series. Walter’s focus at MeeDerby is to source and recruit top managers and executives for the Staffing Industry, with a special emphasis on his hometown of Chicago.
