Senior Recruiter

At Serve Robotics, we’re reimagining how things move in cities. Our personable sidewalk robot is our vision for the future. It’s designed to take deliveries away from congested streets, make deliveries available to more people, and benefit local businesses. The Serve fleet has been delighting merchants, customers, and pedestrians along the way in Los Angeles while doing commercial deliveries.

The Serve fleet has been delighting merchants, customers, and pedestrians along the way in Los Angeles while doing commercial deliveries. We’re looking for talented individuals who will grow robotic deliveries from surprising novelty to efficient ubiquity.

Who We Are

We are tech industry veterans in software, hardware, and design who are pooling our skills to build the future we want to live in. We are solving real-world problems leveraging robotics, machine learning and computer vision, among other disciplines, with a mindful eye towards the end-to-end user experience. Our team is agile, diverse, and driven. We believe that the best way to solve complicated dynamic problems is collaboratively and respectfully.

Would you like to be part of a recruiting team that is responsible for the rapid growth of Serve Robotics? Do you thrive in high growth ambiguous environments? Are you a data driven leader that loves to dive deep to fix complex operational challenges allowing for greater scalability and impact?

Here at Serve Robotics, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded recruiting professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Successful recruiters on this team will utilize their experience in setting benchmarks, forecasting and tracking against metrics while prioritizing to meet hiring targets. They thrive in an innovative, fast-paced environment, can roll up their sleeves, work hard, and have fun to get the job done. They draw on extensive knowledge of Talent Acquisition and functional areas of the business, forging dynamic relationships with business leaders and hiring managers. They will focus on hiring top talent and serve as a talent partner to Software and Hardware teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with hiring teams to build and execute effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage candidate / hiring manager expectations through a deep understanding of return on investment.

• Attract passive candidates and gauge chemistry of candidates for fit and motivation rather than simply sell a role.

• Build and maintain a network of potential candidates through proactive market research and on-going relationship management; conduct in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high interview-to-offer ratios.

• Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company, implementing new processes and fine-tuning standard mechanisms for recruiting those fits within Serve’s mission to deliver the highest quality experience to our customers.

• Interview candidates within the framework of the position specification. Screen, interview and prepare an ideal candidate slate within an appropriate and consistent timeline.

• Participate in special projects/recruiting initiatives including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full life cycle recruiting experience with a focus on hiring technical and non-technical roles.

• 2+ years of business-facing responsibilities working directly with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage candidate/business expectations.

• 3+ years of experience working cross-functionally across the recruiting process, communicating and partnering with multiple stakeholders.

• 3+ years of experience utilizing recruiting tools for sourcing and candidate/applicant management, e.g. LinkedIn Recruiter, CRM and ATS systems, web search, and other sourcing products.

What Makes You Standout

• Experience working in a rapidly growing technical (software + hardware) startup.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to juggle a lot of competing deadlines and deliver results on time