About Us:
We are a fast-paced, high-growth startup based in San Francisco, committed to revolutionizing video editing and expanding our team with talented, innovative individuals. As we scale, we are looking for a dynamic Recruiting Manager to join our People team, who will play a pivotal role in driving talent acquisition strategies and execution while leading and mentoring a small, high-performing recruiting team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on the growth and culture of the company.
Position Overview:
As the Recruiting Manager, you will be both a strategic partner and a hands-on leader, responsible for recruiting top talent for our most senior and critical roles, reporting to the VP of People. This is a player/coach role, where you will recruit, mentor, and develop a small team of three recruiters. You will work closely with leaders across the company to understand their hiring needs and ensure our recruitment strategies align with company goals and business growth objectives. Your ability to manage, mentor, and inspire the team, while executing on high-level recruiting initiatives, will be key to success in this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Team Leadership: Lead, manage, and scale a team of three recruiters, fostering a high-performance culture that emphasizes collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
- Strategic Partnership: Partner with senior leaders across departments to understand hiring needs, growth objectives, and how talent acquisition can support business goals.
- Senior-Level Recruitment: Act as a hands-on recruiter for senior, executive, and highly specialized roles, working closely with leadership to source and hire top talent.
- Talent Strategy: Develop and execute innovative recruitment strategies that attract top talent in a competitive market, with a focus on building diverse teams.
- Coaching & Development: Mentor, develop, and coach recruiters, helping them advance in their careers and elevate their recruiting skills, ensuring ongoing team growth and performance.
- Process Optimization: Continuously evaluate and refine recruitment processes to improve efficiency, candidate experience, and alignment with company needs.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Use data and metrics to track recruiting performance, identify trends, and refine strategies to achieve hiring goals.
- Employer Branding: Collaborate with the marketing and HR teams to enhance the company’s employer brand and ensure a consistent, positive candidate experience.
- Reporting: Provide regular updates to the VP of People and senior leadership on recruitment progress, challenges, and key metrics.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in recruiting, with at least 2+ years in a managerial or team lead role.
- Proven experience recruiting for senior-level roles in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, ideally in a startup or technology company.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to inspire and motivate a team, while also being hands-on in recruitment efforts.
- Deep understanding of recruitment best practices and strategies, including sourcing, interviewing, and negotiating offers.
- Strong business acumen, with the ability to align recruiting efforts with company growth and strategic objectives.
- Deep knowledge of applicant tracking systems (ATS) and other recruiting software.
- Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills.
- A passion for developing others and fostering an inclusive, diverse, and supportive team culture.
- A proactive, results-driven, adaptable mindset with the ability to thrive in a fast-changing environment.
What We Offer:
- Competitive salary and equity options.
- Comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision insurance.
- A collaborative and dynamic work environment in a fast-growing startup.
- Opportunities for professional development, mentorship, and career advancement.
The base salary range for this role is $140,000- $190,000/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, and may vary from the amount above.
Descript is building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio — an editing tool built for the age of AI. We are a team of 150 — with a proven CEO and the backing of some of the world's greatest investors (OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital).
Descript is the special company that's in possession of both product market fit and the raw materials (passionate user community, great product, large market) for growth, but is still early enough that each new employee has a measurable influence on the direction of the company.
Benefits include a generous healthcare package, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. Our headquarters are located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. We're looking to hire people who are local and able to join us at the office when needed. We're flexible, and you're an adult—we don't expect or mandate that you're in the office every day. But we do believe there are valuable and serendipitous moments of discovery and collaboration that come from working together in person.
Descript is an equal opportunity workplace—we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We believe in actively building a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.
What We Do
Descript builds simple and powerful collaborative tools for new media creators. We strive to eliminate the tedious work that often stands between an idea and its expression, so that creators can focus on developing their craft instead of their usage of tools.
Descript is a next generation digital media platform that offers a new "engine" that lets you edit audio by editing text (instead of waveforms).
That means it does transcription (both automated and human-powered, whichever you prefer), but more interestingly, it lets you move the audio around by simply editing the transcript.
If you're new to editing audio, you'll find it far easier - it's basically like using a word processor. If you're experienced, Descript is faster than waveform editing - and more fun.
If you work with voice audio (as opposed to music), Descript is what the future looks like...join us and change the world.
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