Head of Recruiting, Snorkel AI
$200-280k
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3+ days a week in office
Data-centric enterprise AI platform for
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Data-centric enterprise AI platform for
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$200-280k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to solve their most impactful problems through data-centric AI.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of relevant experience, with at least 5 in a leadership role, including direct experience supporting Executives in a hiring process
- At least 5 years of experience in a true start-up environment, ideally leading a team and building processes and operations
- Ability to thrive in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment and comfortable making hard decisions
- Superb communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with both candidates and internal stakeholders
- Proven experience in building and leading high-performing recruiting teams, ideally in a fast-growing tech company
- Strong operational mindset with a track record of developing and refining recruiting processes at scale
- Demonstrated ability to use data and market insights to influence senior leadership and drive recruiting strategies
- Strategic thinker with the ability to execute on both short-term and long-term goals
What the job involves
- Snorkel is seeking an experienced Head of Recruiting
- In this role, you will act as a trusted partner to the VP of People and a recruiting expert to the executive team, managing our overarching recruiting strategy and driving cross-functional growth
- You will help set the vision and strategy while also rolling up your sleeves to ensure we deliver against our ambitious goals
- Startup experience is a must - this stage of Snorkel’s growth requires a recruiting leader who has seen the evolution of a recruiting team into a recruiting machine
- This is a unique opportunity to have a catalytic impact shaping the talent landscape within a rapidly growing AI technology company
- This is an incredibly high-leverage role for an organized, inspiring, and results-oriented leader
- You will play a pivotal role in maturing our recruiting function, transforming it into an efficient engine that drives the company's growth
- You will be responsible for developing and executing strategies that ensure we attract and hire the best talent in the market, while also fostering a culture of continuous improvement within the recruiting team
- We are open to various levels for this role, ranging from Director to Sr Director
- This role reports into the VP of People, and will have the following key responsibilities:
- Team Building & Development:
- Lead the expansion of our recruiting team, hiring, mentoring, and developing recruiters at various stages of their careers
- Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture that promotes growth and learning within the team
- Ensure the team is equipped with the skills and knowledge to meet the evolving needs of the company and complex AI space
- Process Development & Operational Excellence:
- Design and implement scalable recruiting processes that can evolve as the company grows from an early stage to maturity
- Apply operational rigor to every aspect of the recruiting process, ensuring efficiency, consistency, and a seamless candidate experience
- Continuously refine processes based on feedback, data insights, and best practices to maintain operational excellence
- Strategic Planning & Execution:
- Lead the development and execution of the overall recruiting strategy, aligning it with Snorkel AI's business goals
- Manage recruiting budgets, tools, and resources, ensuring they are used effectively to support the team and meet hiring targets
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the recruiting strategy aligns with broader company objectives
- Move the business away from external recruiting agencies and partnerships, bringing more of the strategic hiring in-house
- Influence & Data-Driven Decision Making:
- Utilize data, market insights, and recruiting metrics to influence and inform leadership decisions on talent strategy
- Develop and implement a comprehensive recruiting health scorecard to measure and monitor team performance, ensuring accountability and continuous improvement in efficiency and effectiveness
- Partner closely with senior leaders and hiring managers (HMs) to understand their hiring needs, providing strategic guidance and insights to shape recruitment efforts
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the talent market, identifying trends and opportunities to give Snorkel AI a competitive edge in attracting top talent
- Hands-On Recruiting:
- Be prepared to engage directly in the recruiting process when needed, from sourcing to interviewing to closing candidates
- Work closely with hiring managers to understand their needs and provide tailored recruiting support
- Ensure a world-class candidate experience throughout the recruitment process
Our take
Demand for AI is increasing in almost every industry, but the machine learning that fuels it is tedious to set up. In order to train machine learning algorithms, training data must be labelled manually, and this contributes to expenses in time, money and resources when integrating AI within a business.
Snorkel AI develops programmatic approaches to data labelling in order to automate the setup process of machine learning and decrease the required timeframe for a business to begin providing AI services. In addition to these automated data categorization services, the company also integrates data training, management, and analysis into a unified AI-deployment platform.
The complex computer science behind AI setup has resulted in many businesses without computer science backgrounds being left behind, and Snorkel AI has set this as their target audience. As of 2023, this customer base has tripled in size since Snorkel AI's founding and in 2024, enjoyed a new round of funding. With these promising developments, the company continues to innovate the sector.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2021
$85m
SERIES C
Apr 2021
$35m
SERIES B
Total funding: $135m
Company benefits
- Home office allowance
- Yearly wellness stipend
- Healthy meals, snacks & drinks in office
- 401k with a 100% match up to 5% of annual salary
- Regular team events
- Generous paid parental leave
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- We cultivate autonomy across the entire team by being open about our goals, wins, and challenges.
- We get to answers fast, focusing on what works—not what's fancy.
- In our field of AI and software engineering, we believe that diverse thinkers increase collective insights and knowledge.
Company HQ
Centennial, Redwood City, CA
Articles
Leadership
Alex Ratner
(Co-founder & CEO)Studied at Harvard and received a PhD from Stanford. They are also an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington.
Paroma Varma
(Co-founder)They hold a PhD from Stanford and was VP of Corporate Relations at the Society of Women Engineers. They have collaborated with teams at Facebook and Intel.
Braden Hancock
(Co-founder & Head of Technology)They have a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford, and worked as a Research Assistant with the Air Force and MIT. They were also a Software Engineer at Google, and a Researcher at Facebook.
Henry Ehrenberg
(Co-Founder)They studied at Yale and Stanford and worked at Facebook as a Quantitative Engineering Intern and a Senior Applied Research Scientist.
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