Job Description
Venture Scaler helps early-stage startups scale faster.
Venture Scaler is a People Ops & Talent consulting firm founded on the belief that startups are most successful when people are the priority.
However, most early-stage, high-growth companies don't have the bandwidth to focus on building a world-class people operations team to recruit the talent they need to grow and scale.
That's where these companies need help.
That's where Venture Scaler (and you!) come in...
The Senior Talent Partner / Recruiter TL;DR
At 10,000 feet, the Venture Scaler team acts as a fractional People Ops team member for our high-growth startup clients—an extension of their recruiting and people ops team.
Our clients are mission-driven, early-stage startups that are just starting to build their recruiting engine and they know they have to scale with stage-appropriate processes and resources to build a people-first hiring machine.
You would join the Venture Scaler team as a versatile Senior Talent Partner / Recruiter, working with a variety of clients on anything from full-cycle leadership searches, technical sourcing, recruiting operations, high volume sales recruiting, and role design and advising.
With Venture Scaler, you have the ability to design your schedule, choose your hours, and pick the type of client/partner you want to work with!
What you will own & improve:
- Candidate Sourcing: You know how to build a sourcing strategy that attracts values aligned, diverse, high fit candidates. You're a wiz with LinkedIn Boolean sourcing, but aren't afraid to get creative to find candidates in unique ways.
- Talent Acquisition Strategy and Execution: You know how to effectively vet candidates with a first interview for values & role fit, managing an incredible candidate and hiring team experience, all while selling candidates on the incredible opportunities you're managing!
- Candidate Experience: You will partner with your hiring managers to create a seamless candidate experience from first touch to offer.
What you've already done or you already know:
- You have 3-5 years of technical talent acquisition experience at a high-growth company with a verifiable record of successful employee recruitment from entry level to senior.
- You have strong business acumen with a desire to understand the "why" behind every hire to ensure we are attracting, hiring, and retaining the right talent to grow the business.
- You have kick a$$ project management and recruiting operations skills with a bent to stay organized amidst the startup chaos.
- You have polished recruiting, presenting, and public speaking ability for interviews.
Benefits & Logistics
- Flexibility: You are interested in working anywhere from 10-40+ hours a week as an embedded, fractional resource with a high-growth startup.
- Autonomy: You'll be working directly with the hiring managers, so you get to design your schedule, choose your hours, and determine the best way to work with each other.
- Exciting Opportunities: We work VC-backed and high-growth startups. You'll gain incredible and invaluable experience working inside of the next tech unicorn!
- Great Team: Every recruiter on the Venture Scaler team is vetted and hand-selected to work with our clients.
Hourly Rate: $65/hour.
Note: This flexible opportunity is a 1099 contractor hourly position.
About the Team!
This role will join the Venture Scaler team and work alongside Jake Huber (Founder) & Evan Hudson (Head of Talent) to partner with early-stage teams to supercharge growth via embedded recruiting, sourcing, hiring operations, and strategic people operations.
And don't take our word for it, here's what our recruiters have to say:
"I am so happy to provide this recommendation for Venture Scaler! Partnering with Jake & Evan at Venture Scaler as a contract recruiter has been a really wonderful experience. They are both incredibly engaged and do a fantastic job of providing relevant and correct information on the clients and the culture of the companies with which we work.
Qualification of clients, gathering the proper requirements, and setting solid expectations is key any time you're taking on a contract role and with Venture Scaler, I feel like this is one of the strongest benefits they provide to a contractor. They do such a good job at the front part of the relationship that the transition to working with the hiring managers/stakeholders/teams is almost seamless.
I appreciate, as well, how responsive they are any time there is a question or an idea that may improve the relationship or process. They also provide a great deal of autonomy. They are there to remove roadblocks or assist when needed but they also trust that I'll provide the support and service needed to find success for the clients.
Additionally, Venture Scaller goes out of its way to ensure invoices are paid on time and correctly. In fact, all of my invoices have been paid prior to their due dates! (That's a big thing to an Independent Contractor)
It has been incredibly productive AND an absolute pleasure working with Jake and the Venture Scaler team!"
~Jennifer, Venture Scaler Recruiter
"I've been helping Venture Scaler with recruiting and have loved my experience. Jake and Evan are amazing leaders that provide me the autonomy to do what I love while also offering support and startup expertise for me to learn and grow.
The companies they partner with are top disruptors in the startup space and it's been made for such a fun and challenging experience. I highly recommend Venture Scaler - for either prospective companies or consultants looking to help!"
~Marlowe, Venture Scaler Recruiter
Case Study: How We Helped Veho Grow 4X in 6 Months
Venture Scaler helped Veho (a Techstars- and VC-backed last-mile delivery startup) grow 4X from 70 to 285 employees and increase their candidate inbound by 500% in 6 months, and here is what the CEO had to say:
"The Venture Scaler team have been HUGE for us. As we were starting to grow like a rocket ship we needed smart professionals who can help us ramp up employer branding, hiring, and interviewing.
Venture Scaler created a 'machine' for us in those areas. They got us amazing recruiters to help with hiring across all positions in the company, including executive roles.. Shortly after we were named a 'top 50 seed stage company to work for'. I can't recommend Venture Scaler enough!"
~ Itamar Zur, Co-Founder and CEO of Veho
What other clients have to say about working with us:
"We were up and running with an incredible recruiter within a week and they completely exceeded our expectations. We wrapped up our hiring sprint ahead of schedule and with higher quality candidates than before.
Additionally, the cost per hire came to about 1/10th of what a traditional agency would have charged. I can't recommend Venture Scaler enough for the quality and value they provide."
~ Jeff Kreutter, Head of Operations at Honey Homes
"We were struggling for months to find our first sales hire, but couldn't find the right blend of skills and experiences. That changed within a few weeks when we started working with Venture Scaler.
Our recruiter immediately started screening and setting up high-quality interviews. They found our dream hire in a few short weeks and saved us a ton of time in the process. We'll definitely start with Venture Scaler for our next role!"
~ Wyatt Smith, Founder & CEO at UpSmith
"Venture Scaler was a game-changer for us. They matched us up with the perfect recruiter in a couple of days and started setting up interviews for us right away.
Honestly, we were blown away with their speed of execution and the quality of candidates they brought to us. I can't recommend them enough. We'll 100% be working with them again in the future!"
~ Ryan Kober, Co-Founder and CRO at Nurseio
Employment Type: Contractor
Salary: $ 65.00 Per Hour
Job Tags
Hourly pay, Contract work, Part time, For contractors, Immediate start, Flexible hours,