Lead Program Manager- Venture Recruiting

Job Description

At Cogo Labs, we build startup companies from scratch. We're not just venture capitalists. We're an experienced, proven team of engineers, analysts, and entrepreneurs using innovative market-leading tools, combined with big data and intellectual curiosity to build a platform that spins up

As Lead Program Manager- Venture Recruiting, you will be responsible for building and executing against a strategy to attract and hire founding teams into the incubator. The ideal candidate will have deep programmatic recruiting experience and the desire and ability to build scalable process from the ground up. This role is based in our Cambridge, MA office.

What to expect from Cogo:

• A fun, supportive culture. Happy employees are the most successful. We take care of our own, and not just because it's good business.
• Near obsessive use of data to inform business decisions. We believe that efficient growth happens when we make every decision based on solid, well directed analysis.
• Unmatched opportunity. We believe in mentoring people to grow as quickly as they can. Today's new grad hires are tomorrow's trail blazers.
• Flexibility and novelty. You have the autonomy to continuously define your role over time, as you identify the problems that you are uniquely capable of solving.
• The ability to take big swings. We are a successful company today due to the great ideas that have been generated and executed by our phenomenal Cogo team.

What you’ll do:

• Develop a creative, programmatic strategy to attract “founding teams” to Cogo.
• Build relationships with local universities and entrepreneurial organizations to gain access to talent pools.
• Own the employer branding strategy needed to attract this talent- everything from messaging to speaking engagements, event presence, etc.
• Collaborate closely with Cogo leadership to set targets, report on progress and iterate on strategy over time.

About you:

• 5+ years of programmatic/campus recruiting experience delivering results in a high growth, fast paced corporate environment.
• Experience with employer branding/marketing.
• Action-oriented and impact-centric with the ability to effectively influence and communicate at all levels of the organization and manage multiple stakeholder relationships.
• Experience building a strategic POV in an ambiguous environment and quickly moving to execution phase.
• Data-driven and comfortable using recruiting metrics to guide decision making.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

If you're reading this and questioning whether you should apply, apply! There's no such thing as a perfect candidate, and we don't expect you to check every box. We're inspired by the uniqueness that people like you bring to the table. The companies that we incubate are only as innovative as the breadth of lived experiences shared by the teams building them. We can't wait to read your application!

Cogo Labs is an equal opportunity employer and individuals seeking employment with us are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Cogo Labs Core Principles

1. Take Big Swings : Thinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Leaders strive to spend their time exclusively on what’s important, and they shed the rest. They seek out the highest return on their team’s time and effort.
2. Data Driven : Leaders work backwards from the solution to generate plans. They use data to be sure their time and effort are always leveraged at the most impactful work. They admit when they are wrong and use the data to eliminate their blind spots.
3. Make Moonshine : Leaders create value from spare and under-utilized parts. They’re resourceful and tenacious. They expect and require innovation and invention from their teams, and they find ways to simplify. They are situationally aware; they look for good ideas from anywhere.
4. Insist on the Highest Standards : Leaders keep the standards relentlessly high. They demand high quality products, services, and processes because they deliver high quality products, services, and processes. Leaders solve root problems and ensure that when problems get fixed, they stay fixed.
5. Bias for Action : Leaders run everywhere they go. Many decisions and actions are reversible and don’t need extensive study. Leader’s value calculated risk taking because they know that in business, speed wins.
6. Have Integrity; Earn Trust : Leaders listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully. They are vocally self-critical, even when doing so is difficult or embarrassing. Leaders are not arrogant. They benchmark themselves against the best and identify their gaps.
7. Hire and Develop the Best : Leaders raise the bar with every hire and promotion. They want to work with other leaders. They recognize exceptional talent and enthusiastically propel them throughout the organization. Leaders are serious about their role in coaching others.
8. Ownership : Leaders think long-term and don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results. They own all the inputs to their business. They act on behalf of the entire company, beyond just their own team.
9. Disagree and Commit : Leaders respectfully challenge decisions when they disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or awkward. They have conviction; they do not compromise in the name of social niceties. Once a decision is reached, they commit wholly.
10. Dive Deep : Leaders operate at once with immense perspective and granular detail. No task is beneath them. They audit frequently, and they are skeptical when metrics and anecdote differ.
11. Deliver Results : Leaders focus their time on the key drivers for their business. They pursue them obsessively to deliver results with the right quality and in a timely fashion. They rise to the occasion and never compromise.