Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist (Technical Recruiting)
Muck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. Our mission is to enable organizations to build trust, tell their stories and demonstrate the unique value of earned media. Muck Rack’s Public Relations Management (PRM) platform enables PR teams to work together to find the right journalists for their stories, send customized pitches, build meaningful relationships with the media, monitor news, and quantify their impact.
Self-funded, globally distributed, and growing quickly, Muck Rack has received several awards for its unparalleled culture and product from organizations like Crains, G2, and BuiltIn. We value resilience, transparency, ownership, & customer devotion and infuse these values into everything we do.
Muck Rack is looking for a proactive, independent and charismatic Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist (Technical Recruiting) to join our team and make a big impact.
As our first dedicated Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist with a technical recruiting focus, your mission will be to attract, engage and close candidates for our Product, Engineering and Design teams. You will have the opportunity to drive both the strategy and execution for our technical recruiting efforts from employer branding to extending offers to candidates. In this role, you will be responsible for building the foundation for the technical recruiting function at Muck Rack.
What you'll do:
- Scale Muck Rack’s Engineering, Product and Design teams while developing scalable technical recruiting strategies and processes
- Proactively source technical talent, leveraging outbound campaigns, employer branding assets, and other creative tools and strategies to engage passive talent
- Partner with hiring managers to define roles, interview processes, scorecard criteria and job descriptions
- Provide a white glove experience to both candidates and hiring managers while ensuring that the interview process is seamless, inclusive and effective for all stakeholders
- Assess candidates’ overall seniority, technical ability and competency in our tech stack specifically
- Report on recruiting funnel metrics based on Greenhouse data
How success will be measured:
- Consistently hitting or exceeding sourcing targets
- Metrics including time to fill and time to hire
- Hiring Managers and candidate feedback
If the details below describe you, you could be a great fit for this role:
- 3+ years of full cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally in a start-up environment (in-house or agency) with exposure to SaaS
- Tech savvy - you’re ATS proficient (Greenhouse strongly preferred) and comfortable with tools including Linkedin recruiter (boolean search) and sourcing on social media and niche platforms
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills - you have the ability to adapt to different situations, styles and needs with both candidates and internal stakeholders; you can understand and clearly explain technical job requirements
- Resilient - you’re eager to test new processes and ideas and willing to pivot when necessary
- Excellent negotiation skills - you understand the individual motivators and internal levers necessary to close candidates
- Sense of urgency - you work quickly and understand how to prioritize competing demands
- Confidence and conviction - you are able to diplomatically influence stakeholders to take action and get candidates excited to work at Muck Rack
- Inclusive - DEIB is inherent to your recruiting philosophy
- Experience/interest in PR/Journalism is a bonus
Interview Overview
Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for our Technical Recruiter role. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision.
- 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
- A 1 hour zoom interview with the hiring manager
- Take-home assignment (2 hours max)
- Final interview with several members of our team
Salary
The starting salary for this role is between $115,000 and $145,000+ USD + bonus and equity, depending on skills and experience. We take a geo-neutral approach to compensation within the US, meaning that we pay based on job function and level, not location. For all other countries, we have competitive pay bands based on market standards.
Individual compensation decisions are based on a number of factors, including experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors. We recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.
Remote Work, Forever. We’re a fully distributed team and have pledged to remain that way forever. We offer employees a full home office setup, phone & internet reimbursement, and a monthly coworking membership. We build culture through virtual and in-person team bonding opportunities including team lunches, friendly competitions, and celebratory events!
Transparent Compensation. We offer competitive geo-neutral pay in the U.S. and review compensation at least once annually to ensure internal equity and alignment with the external market. Depending on the role, we offer either a standardized bonus program or attainable commission structure and an opportunity to earn equity in the company. All employees are eligible for our 401(k) plan* with employer contributions.
Health & Wellness*. Muck Rack provides comprehensive health, dental, vision, and disability insurance for employees and their families. We offer a select plan with 100% premium coverage for individuals and 70% premium coverage for dependents, as well as a range of other plans. Our team also has access to OneMedical, 24/7 Virtual Care, an Employee Assistance Program, and a Flexible Spending Account. Team members can access Headspace for free and take advantage of a discounted Classpass membership.
PTO and Family Benefits. Our team enjoys 4+ weeks of off-the-grid PTO, plus paid sick/mental health days, summer Fridays, and 10+ paid holidays. In order to combat Zoom fatigue and allow for deep work without interruption, we have implemented “No Internal Meeting Fridays” year round. We also provide up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
Personal & Professional Development. We grow talent by creating internal pathways for advancement and promotion. Muck Rack conducts bi-annual performance reviews, hosts team-wide workshops, and offers management training and leadership training opportunities. We also provide unlimited subscriptions to L&D platforms including Coursera & O’Reilly, as well as 2 additional days of PTO to dedicate to learning and development.
Culture of Inclusion. We know that diverse perspectives breed innovation and help us better serve our customers. We are committed to ensuring employees feel their identities are valued and that people of all backgrounds and points of view are treated equitably.
Customer-First. Self-funded means we have the freedom to be nimble, highly collaborative and innovative, building forward-thinking products that enable 3,000+ companies around the world to build trust, tell their stories and demonstrate the unique value of earned media.
*These benefits are specific to US-based employees. In some, but not all, cases we are able to offer equivalent benefits to employees located outside of the United States.
We deliberately encourage individuals from all backgrounds, including race, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability status to apply for positions. We are an equal opportunity employer and we're committed to a fair and consistent interview process and employer experience.
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