Senior Technical Recruiter, Handshake
$145-170k
+ Equity and ownership in a fast-growing company
The career platform for Gen Z
Job no longer available
The career platform for Gen Z
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$145-170k
+ Equity and ownership in a fast-growing company
1001+ employees
Company mission
To democratize access to opportunity and ensure any student can build a great career no matter who they know, where they live or what school they attend.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with at least 3 years supporting engineering teams
- At least 2 years of in-house experience
- Successful at engaging and closing candidates at a high volume
- Strong history of collaborating inclusively with hiring managers and interviewers to design processes that attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds
- Demonstrated ability to use data to design recruiting plans, optimize our interview processes, and communicate with hiring managers and other stakeholders
- Working knowledge of ATS systems and pipeline metrics (Greenhouse/Gem preferred)
- Bias towards humility, curiosity, and humor
- Outstanding organizational and follow-up skills, strong time-management abilities
- Great judgment and a history of working with highly confidential information
What the job involves
- Handshake is hiring a Senior Technical Recruiter, reporting to the Senior Manager of R&D Recruiting. We are seeking an individual who cares about people and enjoys identifying, connecting with, and hiring incredible talent
- In this role you will work across our Engineering org, particularly with our Machine Learning and Data teams, to build and shape their teams across all levels, including their leadership hires
- You will lead recruiting strategies, build key stakeholder relationships, and develop strategic candidate outreach while working with a curious, kind, and passionate team
- Identify, source, and engage talent to grow our Engineering teams through creative and diverse multi-channel methods
- Manage pipeline activity, providing recommendations for improving talent strategies based on data
- Design, implement, and execute recruiting plans, partnering closely with hiring teams
- Own hiring manager relationships and improve our hiring processes
- Ideate, implement, and iterate recruiting and talent best practices across the organization
- Influence business leaders and educate hiring managers on process, interview best practices, and decision making
- Work with senior stakeholders to consult, shape, and implement diversity recruitment strategies
- Create new ways to surprise and delight candidates as they go through our interview process
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, data-driven environment
- Hire values-aligned individuals to contribute to Handshake’s mission
- Develop an extensive understanding of Handshake’s business and culture
Our take
The three founders of Handshake established their company in an attempt to eliminate inequality and make the student hiring landscape fairer. The Handshake platform acts as a LinkedIn for college students, pairing students from every walk of life with more than 650K employers, including the entire Fortune 500, which includes Google and Nike.
The graduate recruitment platform is open to any student with a valid @.edu email address, with more than 17M active users from thousands of colleges and universities. With a student-first philosophy, the company generates revenue from both universities and employers rather than students.
Valued at $3.5B, Handshake has gained traction in a competitive market, although it has strong competition from recruiting giants LinkedIn and Indeed. It stands out, however, by helping students build new relationships and skills, rather than simply making connections to people they already know.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$200m
SERIES F
May 2021
$80m
SERIES E
Total funding: $434m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical , dental, and vision coverage
- Fertility and family forming: Through a partnership, Handshake offers comprehensive family benefits, including infertility treatments and a $15K stipend, to its employees.
- LGTBQ+ coverage: All medical plans cover transgender services.
- Mental health: Discounts on a variety of wellness apps and an Employee Assistance Program with access to five free counseling sessions.
- Tax savings: Tax-advantaged benefits to save money on healthcare, dependent care, and other expenses.
- Learning & development: Employees are provided with an annual stipend to use towards professional development, career development workshops, manager trainings, and 1-on-1 coaching through external partnerships
- Community leader support: Employee Resource Group leaders are compensated with a quarterly bonus for the high-impact work the role requires
- Parental leave: Leaves of 16 weeks for birth-giving parents and 10 weeks for non-birth-giving parents; the policy applies to adoptions as well. Handshake also partners to provide one-on-one coaching on preparing for leave and coming back from leave
- Flexible time off: No accrued time off or waiting period to take vacation. Two paid flexible holiday days off to observe holidays that closely align with religious, cultural, and personal needs
- Sabbatical: Paid six-week sabbatical to recharge and reset beginning at six years of continuous, full-time employment, and every four years thereafter
- Volunteer time off: Two days off for social and civil activism, volunteer work, and/or any related activities, including attending and participating in protests
- Life & disability insurance: Essential benefits and automatic coverage with basic life insurance, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- 401k match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 1% of pay, with a max of $1,200 per year.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Garrett Lord
(Co-Founder & CEO)Majored in Computer Science at Michigan Technological University. Interned at Palantir Technologies before co-founding Handshake in 2012.
Ben Christensen
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Michigan Technological University with a degree in Computer Networking & Systems Administration. Interned at Target and worked as a Developer at Up and Running Software. Was part of Arbor Networks' ASERT Security Research team.
Scott Ringwelski
(Co-Founder)Attained a degree in Computer Software Engineering from Michigan Technological University. Co-founded Handshake in 2012.
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