About the role:As the Lead Recruiter at Charge Robotics and founding member of our people & talent function, you'll take critical ownership of recruiting, work with the team to create an excellent pipeline of candidates, and deliver a standout interview, hiring, and onboarding experience. You'll be substantially responsible for growing our passionate and amazing team as we work together to transform the solar industry.
What you will do:- Build our talent function and recruiting processes from scratch
- Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, from sourcing and screening to negotiating and closing
- Be a strategic partner to hiring managers across the company, collaborating on candidate strategy and ensuring that hiring goals are met in a timely manner with top-tier candidates
- Create a positive, seamless, and fair candidate experience
- Initially lead employee onboarding until we can grow into a larger people function
- Report to and collaborate closely with our founder/CEO
- Be the face of Charge Robotics and help us build a stellar employer brand
You'll be successful in this role if you:- Are excited and motivated to personally play a role in mitigating climate change
- Have 5+ years of experience doing full-cycle recruiting for technical roles
- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Have superb negotiation and relationship management skills
- Are detail-oriented with a ruthless ability to prioritize
- Have a metrics-driven mindset, leveraging data to understand pipeline health and improve velocity, quality, retention
- Believe in treating all people with dignity and respect, regardless of title or tenure
- Are proficient in ATS and other HR technologies to support data-driven decision-making and process optimization. A few tools that we use: Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, Gusto
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced, in-person startup environment
- Are based in or can relocate to the SF Bay Area, and able to work ~4 days/week from our San Leandro HQ
It'd also be nice if you:- Are passionate about and knowledgeable of robotics
- Have hired across software and hardware engineering roles
- Have experience building out a people function for a small and rapidly growing team, incl. owning recruiting-adjacent processes like onboarding, brand-building, or HR
- Are excited to see our robots deployed onto actual solar farms!
