Senior Recruiter, Inkitt
$150-160k
+Equity
Reader-powered book publisher
Posted today
Reader-powered book publisher
201-500 employees
Posted today
$150-160k
+Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build a world-class platform to shine a light on phenomenal stories, and eventually develop theses stories into movies, TV shows, merchandise, video games, or even them parks.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of full cycle recruiting experience, with at least some of it at a high growth startup
- Proven success hiring across a wide mix of functions, from creative and content to operations and finance
- Experience recruiting for creative, content, or entertainment roles is a strong plus
- Comfort managing many searches at once and prioritizing well when everything feels urgent
- Strong judgment in assessing talent for roles outside your own area of expertise
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trust with both candidates and leadership
- Experience with Lever is a plus
- A scrappy, startup mindset; you thrive in a fast paced environment and welcome new challenges
- Commitment to an in person work culture; you prefer an onsite or hybrid work model
- An enthusiastic, positive approach to recruiting and a knack for #movefast without missing deadlines
- Autonomous
- Bring solutions instead of problems
- Data driven
- Quick to action
- A high functioning workaholic
- Looking for exponential career growth
- Have lots of fun building a generational AI x Entertainment company
What the job involves
- Partner closely with hiring managers to understand their needs, shape job descriptions, and build a strategic hiring plan for each search
- Advise hiring managers on market conditions, compensation, and candidate expectations
- Source proactively and creatively to reach passive candidates in industries outside traditional tech, including entertainment, publishing, and media
- Own full cycle recruiting across creative, production, growth, marketing, operations, and finance roles, from intake through offer and close
- Lead offer conversations and negotiations with confidence and care
- Create a thoughtful, engaging candidate experience that reflects our culture and keeps candidates excited throughout the process
- Run a high volume of screens while keeping quality and speed high across multiple open roles at once
- Keep our ATS clean and up to date, and use pipeline data to spot bottlenecks and improve how we hire
- Work with the People Team to strengthen interview processes, scorecards, and hiring workflows
- Help build our employer brand and tell the Inkitt story to candidates in every function
Our take
The current publishing industry makes it very difficult for breakout authors to achieve success. Furthermore, publications are often based off subjective opinions of those in the industry, and potential readers have no input in the matter, despite them being the force that will drive a book's success.
Inkitt takes a different approach to publishing in order to give writers a fairer chance of success. The company allows writers to submit their stories onto the website where readers have free access to read anything posted. Using an algorithm, Inkitt then determines which stories have the most reader engagement, and based on this information, decides which to take to official print and publication.
Several rounds of funding to the sum of more than $100M have allowed Inkitt to invest more in its algorithm and technology and open offices in San Francisco. It's also looking to expand into more mediums such as video content and audiobooks, with a long-term aim of building a media empire akin to Disney. Though there's a long way to go for that lofty aim to come to fruition, Inkitt has already attracted 33M users and published dozens of bestsellers.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2024
$37m
SERIES C
Oct 2021
$59m
SERIES B
Total funding: $117.3m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive Health Plans including Fitness Classes
- Expat integration support
- Free lunches in the office
- Professional Coaching for Everyone + unlimited self-development book budget
- Regular social events
- Dog-friendly office
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ali Albazaz
(Founder & CEO)Founder and CEO of Fünfi and then joined moviepilot as a Javascript developer. After this, Albazaz freelanced as a Javascript developer for six years.
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