Recruiting Lead (Senior Manager Level)Department: People
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Austin, TX
DescriptionWhat You'll Do:Reporting to the VP, People, the Recruiting Lead owns how Join Parachute attracts and hires talent. This role leads a team of recruiters who primarily hire for our plasma donation centers-both center leadership and donor floor roles-while personally taking on some full-cycle corporate recruiting. The Recruiting Lead will focus on continuously improving the systems, processes, and tooling that make hiring faster, more consistent, more measurable, and more cost effective.
Key Responsibilities- Lead a team of recruiters who own full-cycle hiring for our plasma donation centers, including center leadership and donor floor roles, partnering closely with ops leadership and our center directors.
- Personally own full-cycle corporate recruiting as a hands-on recruiter and trusted advisor to corporate hiring managers across functions (~15 roles / year).
- Continuously improve the recruiting engine, diagnosing where processes break down and redesigning workflows, tooling, and reporting so hiring scales without losing speed or quality.
- Identify where automation and AI can enhance recruiting outcomes, and implement solutions that streamline sourcing, screening, and pipeline management.
- Set the strategy for high-volume field hiring, establishing time-to-fill and quality-of-hire benchmarks and ensuring consistent execution at every location.
- Define and measure recruiting efficacy and ROI, including funnel metrics, source effectiveness, and cost per hire, and hold the recruiting team accountable to those metrics.
- Own the recruiting technology ecosystem (ATS, sourcing tools, analytics) and related vendor management.
- Manage the recruiting budget, including new strategies and experiments to find even more cost-effective ways to build top of funnel.
Skills, Knowledge and ExpertiseDrive Impact: Use sound judgment to prioritize and deliver meaningful outcomes independently
- You find the problem in the data and act on it, ruthlessly prioritizing against the dynamic hiring needs of the business.
Create Scale: Automate, systematize, and refine processes to scale your impact
- You see recruiting as a system, not a series of one-off reqs; you fix root causes and build repeatable processes, tooling, and automation
Collaborate: Support, unblock, and amplify the work of the team and those around you
- You bring positive, can-do energy and high EQ, coaching the recruiting team through the growing pains of a startup and building trusted relationships with key stakeholders that unblock hiring and amplify collective results.
Ideal candidates will have experience recruiting in regulated industries and startup/hyper-growth experience, including high-volume field or hourly hiring.
Education and Experience - 8+ years of experience in full-cycle recruiting or talent acquisition, with a minimum of 2 years managing teams, ideally in an industry with an operational footprint (i.e., non-Saas)
Work Environment:- In-office at our Headquarters in Austin, TX
Benefits- Significant career growth opportunities in a fast-scaling environment
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid time off and company holidays
- Competitive pay
