We make powerful software that’s helping beauty and wellness salons and studios manage and grow their business through an integrated booking, payments and marketing platform. As part of a dynamic and quickly growing team, you’ll be directly involved with helping small business owners be more successful and do what they love. 

About the role

We are seeking a Director of Talent Acquisition to help grow our incredible team. In this role, you will take ownership of our growth strategy by building and leading all facets of talent acquisition. Ideal candidate can manage full-cycle recruiting for all roles and all levels and is passionate about finding the best people in the world. We care about our people and are dedicated to building a winning team at GlossGenius by attracting the best and brightest.

Key Responsibilities

• Be the face of GlossGenius during the recruiting process.
• Design, build and execute an incredible candidate experience from the initial application to the final on-boarding process.
• Identify talent gaps and build role descriptions and requirements to attract top talent.
• Develop recruitment strategy which may include job posting optimization, recruiting marketing channel development, job board procurement, digital and non-digital employment marketing, comprehensive recruitment campaign planning, and talent planning.
• Build a strong candidate pipeline through various channels including, but not limited to Linkedin, AngelList, Indeed, Facebook Jobs, Hired, and all other job boards including employee referrals
• Source active and passive candidates through non-traditional channels and mediums.
• Partner with leaders to strategize on recruiting initiatives, understand trends, provide competitive intelligence, and ensure headcount alignment.
• Perform in person and phone interviews with candidates, and coordinate candidate experience and vetting across other members of the team.
• Ability to create and sustain monthly and quarterly recruiting metrics to show progress and deliver reports to key company leaders for their areas.
• Participate in employment events, career fairs, and other relevant industry events
• Build, maintain, and  inform the candidate on benefits, salary, incentives, and GlossGenius culture.
• Manage and administer employee benefits for existing GlossGenius employees.

Winning factors: What leads to success

Must-have qualifications and expertise include: 

• Highly systematic thinking and process driven as demonstrated by prior work or experience. 
• Strong ability to connect with candidates, identify incredible talent, and sell them on GlossGenius’s mission and values. 
• Proven track record of designing, implementing and leveraging talent acquisition strategies and best practices to help drive measurable business results.
• Experience building, coaching, and developing teams. 
• Bachelor’s degree from a top tier university.

You will love this job, if you are:

• Looking to take on a high degree of ownership: our philosophy is the more you excel, the more responsibility you take on. We are looking for those that are seeking a high degree of ownership and aren’t afraid to blaze trails. 
• A jack of all trades: in this role, you will have a variety of responsibilities that will range across a number of skill sets within  talent acquisition and management. You should be able to pick up these various roles and master them quickly.
• Hungry to learn: you will be doing something new every day. You must have a passion and excitement for learning about the inner workings of a startup.  
• A multi-tasker: You must be able to juggle a number of projects and work with various stakeholders at one time. 
• Willing to roll up your sleeves to get the job done: you must be able to get down “in the weeds” to become an expert in a number of organizational processes but also know when to delegate to other team members or hire new team members. You must be able to do whatever it takes to get the job done.
• An independent worker: you must have a strong, demonstrated ability to drive work and achieve results independently (this is a must), with high-level guidance and direction 
• Process-driven: You should be able to take something that is structured and build a process or structure around it, since you will be starting initiatives from scratch in this role.
• Excited to work in a fast-paced startup environment: Things move fast and change every day! You should thrive in this type of fast-paced workplace. 
• A gunner: You should be able to deliver high-quality work no matter what it takes.

What You'll Get

• Competitive equity and salary package
• Health & dental insurance
• Open time off for vacation & sick leave
• Unlimited (incredibly cool) GG team swag
• Awesome office snacks and weekly team lunches

Other Details

• This is for a full-time position in New York, NY (our offices are based in the coolest part of Soho, downtown NYC).

To Apply

Please submit the following on this link:

• 1) Your resume
• 2) A cover letter
• 3) Answer the following questions: 
  • What is your favorite interview question to identify top talent? Why? 
  • Describe a talent acquisition process you have built and led. 
  • What is your proudest accomplishment or hire in your career as an HR professional?