Recruiter

McKinsey & Company

📍San Francisco, CA
Posted May 19, 2026

Job Overview

Position

Recruiter

Company

McKinsey & Company

Location

San Francisco, CA

Work Type

On-site

Job ID

li-4398037331

Job Description

Who You'll Work With
You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference.

When you join us, you will have:

  • Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.

  • A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.

  • Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

  • Exceptional benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.

Your Impact
You will work with recruiters and managers within the Experienced Professional hiring team to ensure a strong pipeline of highly skilled, qualified and motivated people are available to join the firm.

You will develop and deliver high quality, full cycle, recruitment practices which embody our values and create exceptional hiring journeys for candidates and hiring teams.

You will help candidates understand the unique value proposition of joining McKinsey and provide end-to-end management of candidates in your pipeline; this includes intake conversations with hiring managers, candidate generation via application review, direct sourcing and referrals, assessment through to offer creation and cultivation.

Your ability to attract and develop pipeline of candidates through compelling messaging with keen understanding of competitive landscape will be vital. You will manage cultivation and integration of hires into the firm and participate in recruiting-related projects when needed (e.g. recruiting system design, reporting, assessment).

You will work closely with the recruiting team to plan, coordinate and execute all stages of the recruitment process (from interview days, to events, to cultivation) to contribute to the development of our recruiting strategy. You will demonstrate a strong commitment to diversity and a willingness to innovate and go the extra mile to deliver fully diverse hiring.

Your work will help keep our firm operating at its best and are the backbone to our operational excellence. Our internal roles are core to running our firm and present endless opportunities to author your own career path.

You will be based in Chicago, Tampa, Boston, Philadelphia or San Francisco as part of our Experienced Professional Recruiting function. Your team supports hiring needs from industry inbound to all US locations for client facing and non-client facing positions across several industry and functional areas.

Your Qualifications and Skills

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required

  • 2+ years end-to-end recruiting experience working closely with all levels of a business and senior stakeholders

  • Ability to build great relationships with candidates, consultants and recruiting colleagues at all levels within the organization

  • Ability to lead creative direct sourcing strategies

  • Strong analytical ability, including high degree of comfort with Excel & PowerPoint

  • Proactive problem solver capable of identifying issues and generating solutions; desire and energy to continuously improve recruiting processes

  • Flexibility to deal with last-minute changes; ability to remain calm under pressure and comfortable working with minimal direction

  • Excellent organizational capabilities, including the ability to initiate tasks independently and see them through to completion.

  • Exceptional time management to meet your responsibilities in a complex and largely autonomous work environment.

  • Ability to work in-person and travel as needed (team schedules and office locations may vary)

  • Ability to operate office equipment and handle transportation of materials or objects, when required

  • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, in English, with the ability to adjust your style to suit different perspectives and seniority levels

Interview Prep

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Practice Questions

💡Technical Questions (3)
  • 1.How do you approach direct sourcing for experienced professionals in a highly competitive market, and how do you articulate a unique value proposition like McKinsey's to passive candidates?
  • 2.Walk me through your process for conducting an intake conversation with a senior hiring manager for a new industry-facing role. What questions do you ask to ensure alignment?
  • 3.How do you design and manage an end-to-end recruitment process that ensures a diverse hiring pipeline while maintaining a high-quality candidate experience?
🎯Behavioral Questions (3)
  • 1.Tell me about a time you had to manage a difficult hiring manager who had unrealistic expectations regarding the talent profile or timeline for a role.
  • 2.Describe a situation where you went the extra mile to innovate in your recruiting approach to achieve a fully diverse hiring outcome.
  • 3.Give an example of a time you received difficult, actionable feedback on your recruiting process or candidate assessment. How did you respond and what did you learn?
🧩Situational Questions (2)
  • 1.You are recruiting for a highly specialized industry role and your pipeline is completely dry two weeks before the target offer date. How do you pivot your strategy to deliver?
  • 2.A candidate you’ve cultivated for weeks and who has passed all assessments receives an offer from a competing firm with a higher base salary. How do you handle the offer cultivation and integration process to convince them to join McKinsey?

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