Growth Lead

MeritFirst

$100K — $120K *
Staffing
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in growth, recruiting or a related field.
  • Proven track record of building programs from scratch.
  • Ability to navigate various roles: strategy, partnerships, and recruiting.
  • Strong persuasive skills to engage candidates and hiring managers.
  • An eye for innovative events and experiences that attract talent.

Responsibilities

  • Identify high-demand job categories and overlooked talent pools.
  • Forge relationships with industry leaders and potential hiring partners.
  • Source candidates through unconventional channels and community engagement.
  • Collaborate with product and assessment teams to create effective evaluations.
  • Design and execute engaging talent competitions and events.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead innovative talent acquisition strategies.
  • Work in a dynamic environment that values high-agency individuals.
  • Direct involvement in shaping programs that attract top talent.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams including product and assessments.
Full Job Description
Growth Lead

We're looking for a Growth Lead to build that system. You will identify job categories where MeritFirst can become the best place to discover talent and attract exceptional candidates. You will turn real work into compelling assessments, build flagship programs and competitions around them, and work with companies to convert demonstrated ability into interviews, offers, and successful hires.

What you'd be doing
  • Identify role categories with meaningful employer demand, large pools of overlooked talent, and skills that can be demonstrated objectively.
  • Build relationships with founders, hiring managers, and talent leaders. Secure real opportunities and help companies understand how MeritFirst's signal should inform their hiring decisions.
  • Find and activate exceptional people through communities, referrals, partnerships, content, schools, trade programs, creators, and channels that do not look like conventional recruiting.
  • Work with our product team, assessment experts, hiring managers, and exceptional practitioners to turn popular roles into rigorous, efficient assessments and realistic work challenges.
  • Create competitions, cohorts, showcases, and in-person or online events that ambitious candidates want to participate in - and that employers pay attention to.


Who we're looking for
  • You are an unusually high-agency generalist who operates with extreme ownership and a maniacal sense of urgency.
  • You can move between strategy, growth, partnerships, recruiting, operations, and storytelling.
  • You have built something from zero - not merely operated a mature channel or inherited an existing playbook.
  • You can persuade both an exceptional candidate to bet on a new platform and a skeptical hiring leader to act on a new signal.
  • You have strong taste for programs, competitions, events, and experiences people genuinely want to join.


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