SkyWater Search Partners is assiting one of our best clients with their search for an experienced associate attorney to join its busy New York office. This position is focused on labor & employment litigation.
Ideal candidates will have 5-7 years’ experience in: • Handling complex employment litigation matters • Defending and prosecuting restrictive covenant disputes • Preparing and negotiating employment and executive compensation agreements • Strong academic credentials and admission to the New York State Bar
This role offers a highly competitive salary ($280,000–$325,000 base), performance-based bonuses, and the opportunity to work with a nationally respected team on sophisticated matters.
If you’re interested in learning more please apply or reach out to Rylie Niebuhr at RNiebuhr@skywatersearch.com
SkyWater is excited to be representing a PE-backed manufacturing client who is hiring a newly created Operations Controller to support their growth. This is a great time to get involved with a company that is expanding through both strategic acquisitions and organic growth, and to play a key role in supporting the business as it continues to scale.
This is an onsite role based in the Twin Cities, with flexibility to work from home when needed. Due to the in-person nature of the position, only local candidates currently living in the Twin Cities will be considered at this time.
SkyWater is supporting a large, well-established restaurant group in identifying a strategic, relationship-driven Field HR Manager to support talent and operations across the Midwest. This role is ideal for an HR leader who thrives in a fast-paced, multi-unit environment and is energized by influencing leaders, developing talent, and elevating the employee experience.
The Field HR Manager acts as a trusted HR business partner to Operations leadership across approximately 100 locations throughout the region. This person will lead talent strategies, support workforce planning, manage complex employee relations matters, and drive learning and development initiatives that strengthen culture and performance.
The ideal candidate brings strong multi-unit HR experience, exceptional coaching abilities, and a passion for building strong partnerships with operators at all levels.
This role is based in Minneapolis and requires significant travel across the region.
We’re excited to a partner with a new family-owned industrial manufacturer in Southern Minnesota. We’re looking for a Manufacturing Engineer to join their team. This company suppliers engineering components for multiple industries like mining, agriculture, industrial equipment, and commercial cleaning sectors—making them a trusted partner.
In this role, you will work directly with an experienced engineering manager and cross-functional teams to design, improve, and scale production processes. You will lead continuous improvement initiatives, enhance safety and quality performance, support automation opportunities, and create the engineering documentation that drives efficiency across the plant.
SkyWater has recently partnered with a growing, Minneapolis-based organization that has been around for over 35 years and continued to hire strong technical talent. This organization is a B-corp that offers solutions and services that help the betterment of society.
This Agile Project Manager will work with the development team and ensure high-quality, on-time delivery of internal and client-facing projects. This person will own sprint planning, coordinate workloads across the team, and create the structure and accountability needed for successful execution.
Soft skills are very important as this is a close-knit team. Must be local to MN, and not require sponsorship.
If you thrive in fast-moving environments, understand software development, and enjoy keeping teams aligned and productive, we’d love to talk.
SkyWater Search Partners is assisting a strong law firm with their search for a Labor & Employment Associate to join its busy Minneapolis office. This role focuses on both employment litigation and counseling work, partnering closely with high-performing partners on a wide range of matters.
Ideal candidates will have 3–5 years of experience in:
Employment litigation (state and federal)
Wage & hour, discrimination, and related defense work
Providing day-to-day employment advice to clients
Strong research, writing, and communication skills
This opportunity offers a highly competitive salary ($225,000–$265,000 base), excellent benefits, and the chance to take a significant next step in a nationally respected Labor & Employment practice.
SkyWater is partnering with a local mechanical contractor to find an Assistant Project Manager for their growing team! Our client is privately held, they’ve been successfully operating for over 100 years, and they have about 400 employees across 5 US locations. The Assistant Project Manager will support the Sr. Project Manager on large-scale, complex mechanical & industrial projects across the Midwest. This includes overseeing the day-to-day project coordination, communication, scheduling, documentation, and supporting the successful delivery of these projects on time & budget. The Assistant PM will work closely with subcontractors, vendors, project engineers, and field teams on projects. Our client is looking for a 1-3 year PM or Project Engineer with experience working in the commercial or industrial construction space. They’re offering a competitive base salary, bonus potential, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to progress into a Project Manager role to continue growing your career with them!
We’ve been engaged by a dynamic construction organization with a top-tier finance and accounting team to identify a newly added accounting manager – but this isn’t your typical accounting manager role. This person will be a “corporate mercenary” involved in operational accounting, M&A integrations, FP&A and operational cross-functional work, and special projects focused on value creation/process improvement.
The organization is growing quickly both organically and through acquisitions and there is tons of interesting work to be done. This is a fantastic role to build leadership skillsets, take ownership over significant parts of the business, and see/do a variety of things in a short amount of time. The role reports to a Controller we’ve known for years who is a high-EQ leader with a track record of developing talent, and also has a Big 4 & top-tier consulting background.
Ideal candidates have 5+ years of exeprience, ideally a Big 4 accounting foundation, and experience with M&A integration and complex accounting issues. CPA preferred.
SkyWater is partnering with an existing client in Minneapolis to find a Manufacturing Engineer for their expanding team! This is a brand-new role created due to growth and customer demand for our client’s products. The Manufacturing Engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing tooling & fixtures to be used in their manufacturing processes. This person will look for manufacturing process improvements, train operators & technicians, and partner with internal engineering teams on manufacturing & process improvement projects. Our client is a scaling electronics manufacturer who partners with some of the most well-known aerospace & defense manufacturers in the industry. They’re offering a solid compensation package (base + profit-sharing bonus), full benefits, and opportunities to advance your career within their growing organization!
Our Client, a leading digital agency, is seeking an experienced SEO/GEO Specialist to support a growing roster of clients. This role is ideal for someone who blends technical SEO expertise with emerging AI-driven search (GEO) strategies and enjoys collaborating across content, UX, analytics, and client teams.
Role Overview
The SEO/GEO Specialist will help clients achieve measurable growth in visibility, traffic quality, and conversions across classic search engines and AI answer engines. The ideal candidate is deeply curious about search intent, highly technical, and skilled at transforming insights into structured, answer-ready content.
Core Responsibilities
Develop answer-ready content: Partner with writers to produce succinct Q&A modules, TL;DR summaries, key-facts callouts, credible citations, and clearly dated claims aligned to user questions and tasks.
Implement structured data at scale: Build and validate JSON-LD for FAQPage, LocalBusiness, HowTo, Product, Article/NewsArticle, Organization, Author, and more.
Technical SEO & GEO: Ensure crawlability, renderability, canonicalization, internal linking, XML sitemaps, and performance optimization.
Keyword & question research: Expand traditional keyword research into question, task, and “jobs-to-be-done” research using SERP features, PAA, forums, site search, and support logs.
Content & UX collaboration: Optimize IA elements such as headlines, anchors, tables, and step lists for both users and LLM consumption.
Measurement & reporting: Build reporting for organic and AI-assistant referrals; track inclusion/citation rate, branded answer share, and post-click performance.
Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO): Analyze friction points via analytics and session data; identify opportunities and report conversion lift from SEO/GEO channels.
Pre-/post-launch SEO: Define requirements for new builds, manage metadata migrations and redirects, validate schemas and tracking, and conduct post-launch QA.
Authority building & digital PR: Support high-quality link-earning, source-backed content, and E-E-A-T initiatives to increase citation likelihood.
Client communication: Present insights, roadmaps, and experiment results with clear explanation of business impact.
Ideal Candidate Profile
Experience and proficiency across:
Technical SEO (audits, crawling, rendering, CWV, canonicalization, sitemaps, internal linking, Google Business Profile review)
Structured data (JSON-LD) and schema validation
Content strategy for Q&A, how-tos, definitions, tables, and source-supported content
Deep search intent and question-driven research
Question mining from forums (e.g., Reddit) into structured briefs and FAQ/HowTo modules
Understanding LLM citation behavior and format requirements
