Senior Recruiting Manager, Form Energy
$195.7-244.7k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office (Berkeley, CA)
Energy storage systems manufacturer
Posted today
Energy storage systems manufacturer
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$195.7-244.7k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office (Berkeley, CA)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To form a better world by developing, manufacturing, and commercializing a new class of cost-effective, multi-day energy storage systems that will enable a reliable and fully renewable electric grid year-round.
Role
Who you are
- This is a role for someone who loves complexity
- Proven leadership. 3+ years of direct people management experience, including a meaningful stretch managing a team of 5+ recruiters or coordinators. This is real, sustained people leadership, not senior IC work with occasional mentorship
- Hardware recruiting expertise. A proven track record recruiting within a hardware development company. Batteries, automotive, aerospace, robotics, semiconductors, medical devices, or other complex physical products all count. Manufacturing exposure is helpful but not required. What matters is that you deeply understand hardware engineering talent and how to attract it
- Startup agility. Prior startup experience is strongly preferred. You're comfortable navigating ambiguity, moving quickly, and building processes from the ground up as we scale. You know the difference between a process that helps and a process that slows people down, and you build accordingly
- Cross-functional and distributed team fluency. You've partnered closely with People Operations and HRBP peers, and you've worked effectively across matrixed teams in multiple locations and time zones
- Location. Ability to work from or commute regularly to our Berkeley, CA facility
What the job involves
- Form Energy is building multi-day energy storage to help decarbonize the grid, and we're scaling the team that builds it quickly
- We're hiring a Recruiting Manager to lead our West Coast talent acquisition team out of our Berkeley office, where a growing concentration of our engineering and hardware development work lives
- You'll manage a team of recruiters and coordinators, partner directly with engineering executives and hardware leaders, and collaborate closely with our People team across Somerville, MA and Weirton, WV to keep our talent strategy unified
- You'll set the strategy for how we attract technical hardware talent, and you'll coach the team executing it every day
- Team leadership. Directly manage, coach, and grow a team of 5+ recruiters and talent coordinators. Build a culture of excellence, humanity, and creativity, and set the standard for how we recruit, hire, and treat candidates at every stage
- Hardware talent strategy. Design sourcing and hiring strategies built for complex, niche hardware roles across battery, mechanical, electrical, controls, and manufacturing engineering. You'll create the motion that makes hard-to-fill roles fillable
- Executive partnership. Serve as a trusted advisor to West Coast engineering and leadership teams. Understand their technical requirements at a real level, forecast talent gaps proactively, and translate business plans into concrete hiring plans
- Cross-site collaboration. Build strong bridges with our talent and HR partners in Somerville and Weirton. Share best practices, standardize where it makes sense, and maintain a unified national talent brand across all three locations
- People Ops partnership. Act as a strategic partner to the People Operations team on total rewards, headcount planning etc. You're a peer to the People team, not a customer of it
- Data-driven optimization. Own the metrics for your team, including time-to-hire, quality of hire, pipeline health, and source of hire. Use them to continuously sharpen the process and present clear insights to leadership
- Employer brand. Sharpen how we tell the Form Energy story to top hardware talent. Turn our mission into a reason candidates say yes
Our take
Central to the development of the digital revolution is the role of electric grid infrastructure and expansion. A completely electrical infrastructure is restricted by the fact that electrical energy is difficult and costly to store. Form Energy, however, has created a reliable battery that has the capacity to revolutionise how we use electricity.
Revolutionising battery storage is at the core of Form Energy’s approach to making renewable energy universal. Its battery uses Iron-air technology that currently offers energy storage capacities and operational costs comparable to legacy power plants. In addition to improvements in cost and consistent electricity access, these batteries are scalable, portable, and safe - offering a unique approach to renewable energy storage.
Renewable energy storage remains an emerging industry, and a variety of competitors are developing alternate solutions. That said, Form Energy has bagged significant investment that enables early manufacturing efforts and securing of customers. Early progress is highlighted by a deal with Xcel Energy to supply systems for two of its retiring coal plants, and with Puget Sound Energy to help deploy multi-day energy storage systems.
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Insights
60% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Dec 2024
$50m
SERIES F
Oct 2024
$405m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.6bn
Company benefits
- 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums covered for employees
- Health insurance coverage begins first day of employment
- Health Savings Account
- Generous PTO policies to enable employees to recharge when needed
- An Employee Resource Program that provides mental health counseling services, legal guidance, financial resources, and other helpful consulting services
- 80% of the total medical, dental, and vision premiums covered for dependents
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave, 14 weeks for the birthing parent
- Access to a Dependent Care Account
- Access to a Health Flexible Spending Account
- Access to a Commuter Benefits Account
- Access to an Adoption Assistance Flexible Spending Account
- Stock options granted to all employees
- Stock equity education and tax advice service provided by Carta
- Company sponsored 401k
- Access to an annual budget for professional development
- License to complete Gallup’s Strengths Finder Assessment and ongoing resources
- 100% employer-sponsored coverage life insurance, and short and long-term disability policies
Company HQ
Ward Two, Somerville, MA
Leadership
Ted Wiley
(Co-Founder, COO & President)Studied at Harvard Business School before spending 6 years at Aquion Energy and then a year as President of McDonough Innovation. They co-founded Form Energy in 2017, serving since as COO and President.
Mateo Jaramillo
(Co-Founder & CEO)Mateo started their career at Predictive Networks before joining Gaia Power Technologies and then Tesla. They left their VP of Products & Programs role in 2016 to found Verse Energy in April and Form Energy in December 2017.
William Woodford
(Co-Founder & CTO)William Woodford is co-founder and CTO of Form Energy. His career has focused on developing robust low-cost energy storage systems.
Yet-Ming Chiang
(Co-Founder & Chief Scientist)Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Sublime Systems, and Professor at MIT. Prior to Form Energy, Chiang co-founded the companies Desktop Metal, 24M Technologies, A123 Systems, and American Superconductor Corp.
Marco Ferrara
(Co-Founder & Chief Digital Officer)Also co-founded Tessolar. Former VP of Energy, Analytics and Optimization at IHI INC.
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