Job Description

From the start, we’ve made it our mission to break down barriers and create equitable access to great jobs. With our most recent round of funding, we’re expanding our mission to build a platform students love, that helps early talent of all backgrounds receive access to opportunities – no matter who they know or where they go to school. Learn more about Handshake’s $80M Series E funding round .

Handshake is the largest early career network, helping millions of students from all backgrounds get hired and launch their careers with no connections, experience, or luck required. The Handshake community includes 18 million students and young alumni (9 million active students & alumni) from 1,400 educational institutions including four-year colleges, community colleges, boot camps, and 290+ minority-serving institutions. We connect up-and-coming talent across all 50 states with 600,000+ employers recruiting on Handshake - from every Fortune 500 company to thousands of small businesses, nonprofits, startups, and more. Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, New York, and London.

Everyone is welcome at Handshake. We know diverse teams build better products and we are committed to creating an inclusive culture built on a foundation of respect for all individuals. We strongly encourage candidates from non-traditional backgrounds, historically marginalized or underrepresented groups to apply.

If you are not sure that you’re 100% qualified, but up for the challenge – we want you to apply. We believe skills are transferable and passion for our mission goes a long way.

Your Impact:

Handshake is hiring a Director, Recruiting Operations reporting to the VP, Talent, on the Talent Team. In this role you will design the strategy and build the infrastructure to enable the next wave of Handshake’s growth! As we continue to double in size, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring we hit our targets and build a skilled and diverse Handshake community.

In this role you’ll own and chart out the Talent roadmap, influence processes and programs by leveraging data, optimize our tech stack, and enable our Recruiting team and Hiring teams with education and training. Your tremendous leadership skills will fuel a highly productive and engaged Recruiting Ops and Recruiting Coordination team.

Your Role:

• Recruiting strategy - build, communicate and maintain Talent’s roadmap
• Recruiting Coordination operations - you will shape the strategy and operations for the recruiting coordination team, and use process-improvement techniques and metrics to create standardized and scalable processes that balance capacity with candidate experience.
• Data, reporting and analytics - make data accessible and use it to drive decisions and create predictable recruiting outcomes
• Operational planning - be an active voice, influencer and represent Talent in headcount planning and Recruiting capacity planning
• Technology and systems management - evaluate our current tech stack and find opportunities to replace, augment and enhance our existing tech stack
• Enablement - design and educate the Recruiting and Hiring team on best practices and find opportunities to strengthen the entire recruiting lifecycle
• Process improvement - map current processes, uncover bottlenecks, investigate the reasons behind those inefficiencies, and refine or redesign them for quality and efficiency
• Programs - optimize, develop and implement recruiting programs (referral, diversity programs, internal mobility, etc)

Your Experience:

• Leading Recruiting Operations in a high-growth tech company
• In-depth experience with Recruiting tools and systems (Greenhouse, Gem, Ashby, and more)
• Demonstrable leadership skills - you have shown an ability to hire, mentor, scale, and ultimately lead teams to success in a full remote / distributed environment
• Strong project and roadmap management skills - you’re able to build towards top line goals and consider tradeoffs along the way
• Analytical - ability to recognize and analyze trends in data
• Ability to influence - you’ll work across multiple stakeholders and need to communicate in a way that resonates with each audience
• Systems thinking - excited about both incremental improvements and big-thinking overhaul projects

Bonus Areas of Expertise:

• Experience in an Enterprise SaaS company
• Have led Talent Brand and Early Career programs

Benefits:

• Stock: Ownership in a fast-growing company.
• 401k: We care about your ability to save for your future.
• Family Focus: Parental leave and flexibility for families.
• Time Off: Flexible vacation policy to encourage people to get out and see the world.
• Healthcare: World-class medical, dental, and vision policies.
• Goodies: Whatever hardware and software you need to get the job done.
• Team Fun: Regularly scheduled events, sports, game nights, book clubs.
• Learning: Learning & Development opportunities for you to grow your skills and career.
• Great team: Working with fun, hardworking, nice people who are committed to making a difference!
• ...And much more!

We value diversity of all kinds, and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

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