Talent Associate
The Brydon Group is a Washington D.C.-based private equity firm that partners with outstanding mid-career executives to acquire business-to-business (B2B), business-to-government (B2G), and healthcare software and services businesses. Brydon is currently investing out of its Fund III which closed in July 2025.
This role is ideal for someone with early experience in executive search, talent acquisition, recruiting or sales who is excited to make the jump to a fast-paced, growing firm and take a hands-on role with exposure to senior leaders across the firm and the firms portfolio companies.
As a Talent Associate, youll be responsible for helping to execute our talent strategy across our firm and our portfolio companies, specifically :
- Supporting candidate development and the full recruiting lifecycle for roles and programs across the Brydon ecosystem, including our CEO-in-Residence program, functional leadership roles at our portfolio companies and board positions.
- Proactive sourcing and identification of high quality applicants for roles across the Brydon ecosystem
- Responding to candidate inquiries and explaining open roles across our portfolio
- Organizing and monitoring active applicant pipelines, including communicating with candidates across different stages of the interview process
- Owning (and continuously improving) our talent tools, systems and processes including our ATS, relevant areas of our CRM and talent databases (e.g. AI-enabled tools, compensation benchmarking, example job descriptions, standard interview processes and supporting resources, feedback mechanisms, etc.)
- Orchestrating and leading logistics and coordination for virtual interviews
- Handling outreach and engagement with prospective candidates - acting as a "first point of contact" for those who are looking to learn more about Brydon, our talent programs (including our internships) and our open roles
- Researching trends in the talent market and at competitors to bring fresh ideas forward to the team
- Driving proactive outreach and communication to potential talent pools (in coordination with our search and recruiting partners,) including radiation of events and open opportunities across our portfolio
- Contributing to the development of our knowledge base by regularly codify and share talent best practices across the full lifecycle of the employee journey
- Prepare analysis and presentations to support the future evolution of our talent strategy and the continuous improvement of our interview processes