Talent Acquisition Lead

Brainrider is a marketing and creative agency with teams in Menlo Park/San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City, London, and Toronto. We work with ambitious marketers, in-house creative teams, and internal agencies to do more, by filling capability and capacity gaps and enabling them to execute their marketing and creative at scale.  

We believe collaboration is at its best when we feel at home, so we work as a team — plain and simple. Whether we’re brainstorming better marketing ideas for our clients, or pushing the gas to meet a tight deadline, it all happens with adaptability, optimism, and teamwork. When you join us, you may be pleasantly surprised to find yourself surrounded by smart, genuinely down-to-earth and inclusive people who want to grow with you.

Are you our next team member?

Brainrider is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Recruiter to join our team as the Talent Acquisition Lead.  

As our Talent Guru, we will look to you to champion and evolve our growing recruitment practice. You’ll be successful in this role if you love finding and matching talent with the right jobs, focus on positive results, and have an entrepreneurial spirit. 

Working closely with our People Operations Team, you will be critical to creating a seamless, scalable, efficient recruiting process to help improve our talent reach and pipeline. This role is equal parts hands-on recruiting and process improvement. Brainrider is a #peoplefirst organization, we are thoughtful in our approach and value experience that creates great work using a variety of skills, talents, and worldviews. We don’t take a “one Designer fits all” approach – we like to be different.

You may be a good fit for this role if you have at least 5 years of solid foundational experience as a creative recruiter, and possibly a creative or project management background yourself. The real fit will come from your desire to be part of something that’s evolving and pivoting quickly, your ability to collaborate, and a healthy level of risk tolerance and problem-solving instinct. You understand that focused baseline metrics and continuous improvements are the path to successful, sustainable growth.

Responsibilities

• Evaluating, measuring, and continually iterating on our talent acquisition pipeline and process to ensure we are hiring the right talent at the right time
• Provide strategic guidance to recruitment team; including outreach, sourcing, and active networking
• Translate client requirements for contingent workforce creative resources into compelling job descriptions that will attract the right talent
• Develop an end-to-end recruitment process that is scalable, seamless and optimized for results
• Managing the configuration, adoption, and effective utilization of our recruiting tools
• Comprehensive knowledge of Bay Area job market, including salary and industry trends

• 5 or more years of progressive recruitment experience in the marketing/creative services space
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience managing large scale projects
• Advanced proficiency in all phases of recruitment – sourcing, assessment, relationship building, networking, negotiation, etc.
• Technology savvy: proficient using applicant tracking systems, video conferencing, online advertising and job boards, social networking platforms, and business software
• Genuine interest in people – their experiences, stories, and motivations
• A well-developed professional network in the creative/marketing/agency sector

This position is remote until further notice, following COVID-19 recommended SIP guidelines. 

We offer competitive salaries, paid vacation, work from home (WFH) support and set-up assistance, 401K options and a wide variety of other great perks!

The fine print:

• Please include with your application:
  • Your resume and cover letter—we would like to learn more about you and your experience
• Candidates selected for next steps will be contacted

Brainrider is a place where everyone can do their best work and be themselves. We work as a team, plain and simple. We respect and value the unique characteristics, skills, and experiences of everyone, and support and champion each other to be the best we can be — for ourselves, our team, and our clients. We recognize that a diverse and inclusive workplace leads to better ideas, better solutions, and better results. And we’re here for that — and for you. We #ridetogether.

You can learn more about us at Brainrider.com