Senior Creative Recruiter
Surprise.com, United States

Surprise.com is on a mission to help people make a positive impact on themselves, their teams, and their communities. Our flagship product, Surprise for Teams, is the world’s first and only SuccessOS. Surprise for Teams makes it fun and irresistible to perform better, which creates a positive, long-lasting impact on people and their organizations.

We are looking for Senior Creative Recruiter to help us find some serious design talent and continue delivering a world-class experience to our users. Are you excited at the thought of getting stuck into a recruiting push of legendary proportions? If so, we want to hear from you!

• Leading and implementing full-cycle recruiting for all creative positions, with a special focus on 2D Animators and Mobile Product Designers, across all locations;
• Developing an engaged pipeline of top product designers, animators, illustrators, brand creatives, and content producers through various recruiting strategies and efforts;
• Partnering with hiring managers to understand and solve for current and upcoming needs and priorities;
• Partnering with hiring managers to build and scale an equitable and inclusive interviewing process;
• Crafting and executing influential employer branding strategies and content;
• Maintaining solid industry awareness and market intelligence of hiring trends, competitive intelligence as well as challenges; building and implementing solutions to address these trends;
• Upholding and continuously improving the candidate experience; collaborating with internal interview teams to train, consult, and deliver a consistently distinct and positive experience;
• Serving as an expert-user on our internal recruiting tools;
• Upholding and sharing the Surprise.com culture and brand.

• Minimum of a baccalaureate degree;
• 6+ years of high-volume recruitment experience;
• 2+ years of experience managing and growing recruiters and coordinators;
• A sharp eye for design and the aptitude to identify exceptional creative work;
• Shown success in building and scaling recruitment processes and strategies from the ground up;
• Experience creating and launching employer branding strategies;
• Strong sense of process and operations, balanced with flexibility and understanding;
• Ability to work in a fast-growing and vibrant environment; inspired by the startup environment and willing to get into the details to ensure success;
• A genuine teammate with a strong desire to help others and create memorable experiences;
• Dedication to follow-through and delivering results;
• High attention to detail; stellar time management and organization skills;
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and problem tackle independently without sacrificing quality of work;
• Proven success in building strong, trusted relationships within diverse groups;
• A can-do, team mentality -- no task is too small and you’re willing to jump in when needed;
• Flexibility to work outside of regular office hours, as needed.

• Fluency in Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS);
• Flexibility and ability to travel to recruiting events, as necessary;
• Prior experience in a high-growth startup environments;
• Data-driven mentality, and a master at balancing efficiency and quality;
• Experience bringing organization to teams and streamlining processes within organizations;
• Strong understanding of Talent Acquisition best practices and processes, as well as basic Marketing principles.

At Surprise.com, we’re committed to hiring builders who are inspired by our team’s guiding principle: to derive a tremendous sense of purpose from the inner quest for excellence itself, being driven from within to make anything we touch be the best it can be. We take pride in developing deep user understanding, obsess about the details, and go the extra mile to show our users we love them. We are first and foremost customer driven engineering, product and design collaborate as equals to create a phenomenal end user experience. We’re also home for numerous internal teams building internally facing tools for customer service, finance, and others, to keep the operation afloat.

• A team of extraordinary people, working hard to better themselves and to further our mission;
• Competitive comp;
• Company-paid medical, dental and vision;
• And, of course, we get Surprises internally.

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