Sales Recruiter, Tekion
Contract
$40 – $65 per hour
End-to-end, AI-native platform for automotive retail
Be an early applicant
End-to-end, AI-native platform for automotive retail
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$40 – $65 per hour
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build the world's best business applications in the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- MUST HAVE SALES RECRUITMENT EXPERIENCE WITH SAAS SOFTWARE OR A TECHNOLOGY COMPANY IN SALES AND RELATED ROLES
- 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
- BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of recruitment and sourcing for Sales and Sales related roles
- Experience working with a fast paced technology software of tech company and supporting various aspects of sales related roles
- Strong experience in working with leaders and executing full cycle recruitment and utilization of sourcing and AI strategies
- Comfortable with teams interviews and being on camera
- Strong sourcing to do complex searches and AI skills
- Track record of meeting and exceeding metrics and meeting deadlines
- Ability to build trust and drive team effectiveness
- Strong organization, project management, and communication skills
- Experience working with Ashby is desired
- 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
- Ability to reflect and adjust to a dynamic and rapidly changing environment
What the job involves
- The Talent Acquisition Partner II 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
- You will be instrumental in building out the team in a period of high growth and, in doing so, working cross functionally with senior leadership across the organization
- This position is 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 Executive Leadership team in developing our Employment Branding Strategy and establishing our Talent Acquisition Footprint via the internet
- Help to build team structures, understanding the “right fit” in candidates and sourcing the very best talent to fill open positions
- Understand our brand, culture, mission and values to effectively serve as an ambassador for Tekion and a welcoming first touchpoint to all new hires on their “employee journey” with us
- 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
- Manage hiring plan and pipeline in conjunction with other functional teams
- Develop and manage externally facing recruitment channels such as job fairs, conferences and other events / channels to promote new and exciting opportunities as needed
- Occasionally manage Talent Acquisition Search firms as needed
Application process
- Contract role of 40 hours per week
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 automotive 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 benefiting 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.
This momentum shows no signs of slowing either, as Tekion has attracted attention from major players like CMC, Chrysler and Chevrolet. By streamlining dealership operations into a single platform, the company is proving that even in a crowded market, innovation and simplicity can win. Its recent release of AI agents and an AI interface also shows it is moving with the times.
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
- Silicon Valley Startup Environment
- Stock Options
- Focus on Work/Life Balance
- Recognition Culture
- Health and Wellness
- Unparalleled Career Development
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Jay Vijayan
(CEO & Co-Founder)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 & Co-Founder)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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