Pumpkin is looking for a Technical Talent Acquisition Manager, Technical to join us on our mission to create a happier, healthier world for pets and their people. Reporting into the Director of People, you’ll refine and execute our talent acquisition strategy, hiring across engineering, product, design, and business nationwide. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, organized, and always looking for new ways to provide an exceptional candidate and colleague experience. 

We more than doubled our team last year and we’re looking to do it again. If working at a rapidly growing petcare startup is as exciting to you as it is to us, we'd love to hear from you!

What You'll Do:

• Manage the full cycle recruiting process experience from helping hiring managers create compelling job descriptions, screening candidates, to negotiating complex job offers
• Proven track record of hiring top talent in technical/non-technical roles in highly competitive industries
• Experience in executing innovative sourcing strategies to create diverse candidate pipelines 
• Experience leveraging recruiting data to guide day-to-day decisions, report progress to business partners, and optimize our recruiting processes
• Partner with hiring managers across the organization to develop a deep understanding of our team’s functions and needs
• Continuously find opportunities to improve and finetune our processes to deliver a best-in-class candidate experience
• Serve as a trusted talent partner across the company from leadership to individual contributors
• Train interview teams on our recruiting process, unconscious bias, and interview best practices
• Advise business partners on tough hiring decisions
• Experience managing an ATS (we use Lever), ensuring all information is accurate and up-to-date
• Work on cross-functional project work and participate in recruiting/people events as needed

What We're Looking For:

• Experience managing a full cycle technical/non-technical recruiting experience across agency and in-house; ideally at a high growth startup
• Experience sourcing top talent using innovative strategies, LinkedIn, and other email marketing tools
• Proven ability to successfully identify, manage, and engage with exceptional candidates in high growth environments
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and manage time efficiently, and a keen attention-to-detail
• Strong sense of urgency, with proven ability to act swiftly under pressure and adapt to changing priorities and processes
• Experience managing applicant tracking systems

Bonus Points:

• Experience working at a hyper growth startup or other fast paced environments
• Remote or hybrid work experience

What We're Offering:

• Be a part of our mission to create a happier, healthier world for pets & their people
• The opportunity to join a team where every team member has the autonomy and support they need to boss their role and make empowered decisions
• Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance for you and your dependents
• 401k + company match
• Pumpkin Insurance and preventative care for every pet in your family
• Flexible PTO

About Pumpkin:

We are on a mission to ‘Make the best pet care possible fur all’. Pumpkin is a rapidly growing pet care startup disrupting the $1.7B US pet insurance industry. Pet insurance is growing 17% YOY, yet only 2% of dogs and cats in the US are currently insured. We’re looking to change that so that every dog and cat can live the best life pawsible.

Our Culture & Values

Launched by Zoetis (ZTS), a Fortune 500 company that’s the world’s largest animal health company, Pumpkin is led by a team of engineers, product managers, marketers, data experts, designers, and customer care specialists who love and live for our pets – and for yours.

Pets Come First: Put what's best for pets at the center of everything you do

Trust the Pack: Help families make empowered pet care decisions

Jump Fences: If there’s a will, there’s always a way over them

Share Toys: Be generous with your gifts and amazing things will happen

Dig New Holes: Challenge conventions to create the future of pet health care