Talent Acquisition Partner, Tekion
$76.8-128k
+ Stock options
Cloud-native platform for the automotive retail industry
Job no longer available
Cloud-native platform for the automotive retail industry
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$76.8-128k
+ Stock options
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build the world's best business applications in the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
- 4 plus + years of experience, preferably in high volume G&A, GTM and technology/product recruitment
- Strong sourcing expertise to do complex searches utilizing AI and other innovative skills
- Track record of meeting and exceeding metrics and meeting deadlines
- Expertise in communicating company opportunity with enthusiasm and authentic
- Empathetic and engaging interview style
- Track record of consulting leaders to drive the most efficient/impactful hiring strategy and steps to hire the best talent available
- Strong organization, project management, and communication skills
- Experience working with Greenhouse is desired
- Must have strong experience with Boolean searching and LinkedIn usage
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate a clear and compelling vision and develop effective working relationships
- A “can do” attitude and the ability work as part of a team
- Comfort with accountability and ability to absorb feedback and engage in self-improvement
- A desire to make others successful and collaborate cross functionally
- Demonstrated enthusiasm and optimism
What the job involves
- The Talent Acquisition Partner will set the vision to attract, recruit, and retain the best people to join Tekion's team across all functions and levels within the organization.
- The ideal candidate has a passion for building a strong and unique company culture, loves interacting with different types of personalities, is business focused and is comfortable working with budgets and forecasts. You will be instrumental in hiring exceptional talent in a period of high growth and, in doing so, working cross functionally with senior leadership across the organization
- This position is an expert in consultative full-cycle recruiting; passive sourcing using LinkedIn Recruiter, active sourcing, interviewing, scheduling interviews, ensuring all active participants use Greenhouse, coordinating hiring teams, offers and onboarding
- Serve as a strategic partner to the Leadership team in developing our Employment Branding Strategy and increasing our Talent Acquisition success
- Self-motivated to learn the business and the roles within the company. Help to build team structures, understanding the “right fit” in candidates and sourcing the very best talent to fill open positions. Provide partnership and consultation to leaders regarding the hiring and role strategies for success
- Understand our brand, culture, mission and values to effectively serve as an ambassador for Tekion. Develop a strong Tekion story to share with candidates. Deeply learn departments and roles to be able to provide a clear understanding to candidates. Use expertise to fully explain our total rewards package and ensure successful hiring
- Serve as the primary ambassador for Tekion at recruitment events if needed
- Work to craft and manage interview processes for each role, coordinating interviews, preparing interviewers and managing required assignments / exercises
- Utilize your expertise in recruiting technology to source, manage hiring plans and pipeline in conjunction with other functional teams. Present and prepare dashboards and reports to hiring managers regarding the status of roles
- Provide an exceptional candidate experience and partner with the full People Team to ensure alignment regarding this critical priority
- Occasionally manage Talent Acquisition Search firms as needed
- Experience handling a variety and number of requisitions in a very fast paced environment
- Preferred time zone is EST, CST
Our take
Car dealerships suffer from an inefficiency problem. The paperwork and administration required to complete a sale requires dealers to manage a disjointed set of various software applications. Tekion is offering an enticing remedy - a cloud-based automative retail system that integrates the various software applications in a single infrastructure.
Competition has been strong, with rivals CDK Global and Reynolds & Reynolds offering a competitive raft of features, and benefitting from strong prior relationships with dealerships.
Tekion, however, has nevertheless secured customers for the software in 28 states - likely in part due to the efficiency of partnering with a single growing service as opposed to a disparate spread. The company is sparking interest from the right places too, with partners including GMC, Chrysler, and Chevrolet.
If the founders can leverage their experience at Tesla in improving efficiency, the system could prove a highly competitive newcomer with real potential for global spread. A reduction in processing time and paperwork is a hard proposition for dealerships to refuse.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2024
$200m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Oct 2021
$250m
SERIES D
Total funding: $635.1m
Company benefits
- Competitive compensation and generous stock options
- 100% employer-paid top-of-the-line medical, dental and vision coverage
- Great benefits including unlimited PTO, parental leave and free snacks and beverages
- The opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds from the Silicon Valley’s most dominant and successful companies
- Be part of an early stage, hyper-growth startup with the opportunity to grow and prosper
- Work on the latest and coolest technologies – everything is home-grown and built ground-up
- Dynamic work environment with a strong sense of community and collaboration
- Open and transparent culture that encourages innovation, rewards performance and discourages hierarchy
- Exciting opportunities for career growth and development
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Jay Vijayan
(CEO)They started their career at Oracle, where they spent over 7 years in Management before spending 4 at VMware. They then worked at Tesla for 4 years, leaving their position as CIO to found Tekion in February 2016.
Guru Sankararaman
(COO)After working as a Chief Architect at Cisco, they joined Tesla for 4 years. Initially they served as Director of Information Technology and then later became VP of Information Technology. Left this role to co-found Tekion in 2016.
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