Senior Recruiter, Niantic
$141.8-175k
+ Bonus + Equity
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
Augmented reality software development
Open for applications
Augmented reality software development
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$141.8-175k
+ Bonus + Equity
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Niantic's mission is to shape a future where technology enables novel robotics, computing, and entertainment experiences, focusing predominantly on augmented reality games.
Role
Who you are
- BA/BS degree and/or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years of experience with full-cycle recruiting for roles across Engineering, Product, and Design
- Executive presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and serve as a trusted advisor
- Full-cycle recruiting experience supporting North America, EMEA and APAC regions
- Experience with Google Apps and various Applicant Tracking Systems, preferably Greenhouse
- Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle multifaceted situations with little advance notice
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including synchronous interactions with others
What the job involves
- The Senior Recruiter, is a strategic and hands-on role for Niantic (recently acquired by Scopely) that provides full cycle recruiting support across Pokémon GO and our Tokyo Gaming Studio titles like Monster Hunter Now and Pikmin Bloom.
- This role is critical in bringing on outstanding talent through fostering our Niantic Principles, influencing and driving the recruiting strategy for our key gaming titles, driving operational excellence and process improvement within recruiting processes, and being recognized across the business as a key strategic partner to hiring leaders
- Act as a subject matter expert and strategic talent advisor to leadership at all levels, particularly executives
- Manage full cycle recruiting for multiple, complex searches, creating innovative sourcing strategies and engagement to bring the best talent to each role
- Partner with leadership to understand current and future hiring needs—especially as they relate to backfills, growth and scalability—and tailor recruitment strategies accordingly
- Facilitate and lead meetings and key initiatives and projects with client groups and cross-functional teams that will continuously improve and scale our recruiting operations and results
- Track and report on critical recruiting metrics to advise decision-making and continuously improve pipeline health and process efficiency
- Drive diversity recruiting strategy and impact results in support of broader team/company aspirations
- Lead and manage the Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) partner and external staffing vendors in Japan, driving recruitment strategies and ensuring alignment with hiring goals for the Tokyo market; serve as the primary POC for vendor performance, compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives. Flexibility required to accommodate timezone differences
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings
Our take
Niantic, Inc. is a software development company creating augmented reality mobile games, such as Ingress, Pokémon Go, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, that encourage players to go outside, explore, and meet people. The company was formed in 2010 as an internal startup within Google. Since its inception, hundreds of millions of people have used its products and services.
Although Niantic made a name for itself in the mobile gaming industry through the success of Pokémon Go, the company is hoping to become a platform for other developers to build location-aware AR apps on top of. In 2022, it released a location mapping software for AR, allowing AR experiences to be grounded to a physical location, like the front of a building or a park monument, rather than just floating aimlessly through a phone’s camera view.
Niantic plans to use this platform for an AR-based metaverse, an alternative to Meta’s plans for a VR-based metaverse that renders us bound to VR headsets. The company believes that an AR metaverse on a 3D map of the world will play a critical role in the next transition in computing, and raised funds to make this vision a reality in 2021.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$300m
SERIES D
Dec 2018
$245m
SERIES C
Total funding: $774.3m
Company benefits
- Robust medical, dental, and vision insurance including 100% paid employee healthcare
- 100% of premiums for long term and short term disability and life insurance
- Mental healthcare on-demand by Spring Health
- Increasing paid time off with tenure, separate sick time accrual, five flex days per year to attend Niantic community events or volunteer
- Company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Years
- 16 weeks of parental leave for parents, parental leave transition assistance by Cleo, Carrot fertility benefit
- 401k Match, equity options, compare and refinance loans with Credible’s online loan marketplace
- Cold breakfast, hot lunch and snacks all day, every day
- Cell-phone, gym, and internet reimbursements, pre-tax commuter benefits, employee discounts via Fond
- Employee donation match of up to $500 per year
- Wellness activities including yoga and meditation, volunteer off-sites, employee Resource Groups
Company HQ
Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
John Hanke
(CEO)Having studied for an MBA at UCB, John worked as a Producer for 3DO before co-founding Big Network and Keyhole. He then spent over 11 years at Google as VP of Product, before leaving in October 2015 to found Niantic.
Phil Keslin
(CTO)Prior to Niantic, Phil was acontributor to StreetView, GMail and Lively products while at Google. Additionally Phil was a GPU Architect at NVIDIA and a key contributor to the design and development several of their GPUS.
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