Talent Lead
Lightmatter, United States
Job Description
Help us shape the future of computing! Lightmatter builds next generation computing systems. We’ve created a photonic processor and interconnect that are faster, more efficient, and cooler than anything else on Earth to power the next giant leaps in human progress. If you have a passion for finding the best talent, driving the candidate/employee onboarding experience, and doing impactful work work like helping build the world's first photonic computers, consider joining the team at Lightmatter!
Lightmatter is seeking a Talent Lead with the passion, drive and agility to deliver and own high-volume recruiting initiatives for a multitude of functions across the company. You will partner with leaders across the business to serve as a consultant to hiring managers while owning end-to-end recruiting in an effort to continue to build exceptional fearless and selfless teams as we scale our business. You'll be hiring across all teams, with an initial emphasis on engineering, product, and sales.
Job Responsibilities:
- Gain a deep understanding of Lightmatter’s business and strategic direction, using this knowledge to champion Lightmatter’s culture and mission when engaging with the business and all candidates
- Build relationships with hiring managers and leaders to identify hiring needs
- Use a data driven approach to implement new processes and identify bottlenecks in our current recruiting process, and improve existing processes
- Design and implement robust search strategies to build deep pipelines for active and future roles
- Define and refine standardized interview processes while managing a best-in-class candidate experience from prescreen to offer stage
- Maintain compensation benchmarks and create compensation recommendations that are aligned to external pay practices and promote internal parity. Update benchmarks to ensure Lightmatter’s total compensation package is competitive for every role
- Educate and train hiring managers on recruiting processes as well as appropriate use of recruiting tools
- Own all aspects of the end-to-end recruiting processes for multiple roles across the company, with a focus on engineering to start.
- Provide a consistent and positive candidate experience throughout the entire recruiting process with proactive communication and engagement
- Collaborate with the broader People Operations team to build a robust interview training program that reduces unconscious bias and promotes best practices
- Recommend strategies related to recruitment that will impact growth of the company, including where to allocate recruiting spend
Requirements
- 10-12+ years of full life-cycle recruiting experience, ideally including experience in-house at startups
- Experience in technical recruiting is a must, experience in both technical and business recruiting is a huge plus
- Experience building talent teams and creating compensation frameworks
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, empathy, and the ability to build relationships across the organization and with candidates
- Comfortability owning relationships with hiring managers and hiring teams, strong ability to advise and influence
- Strong negotiation skills, ability to close candidates before and during the offer stage
- Business acumen and ability to work well across different functions in order to help effectively grow our business
- Deep experience sourcing candidate, bringing a creative yet data-driven approach to the outreach process
- Ability to navigate through ambiguity and constant change
- Demonstrated ability to handle confidential and sensitive information
Benefits
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental amp; Vision)
- Retirement Plan 401k
- Life Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Family Leave
- Stock Option Plan