The Business Recruiter manages candidate experience during recruitment, collaborates on hiring needs, develops strategies, and drives offer processes using data-driven approaches.
Role Description
Our Business Recruiters create an exceptional candidate experience throughout every stage of the interview process. We work closely with teams to make sure all of the "behind the scenes" work that needs to happen to go from an opening to a hire actually happens. If you love connecting people and opportunities, and have a growth mindset- this is the role for you.
Responsibilities- Collaborate with G&A and GCO teams to deeply understand their hiring needs
- Develop unique full cycle hiring strategies and interview criteria for each role
- Source qualified candidates, review CVs/resumes, and prescreen candidates while moving interview process forward in a timely manner
- Organize and facilitate interview debriefs
- Drive offer approval, extension and negotiation
- Proactively identify closing strategies for offers and provide candidates with the right information to help make their decision as easy as possible
- Manage candidates in process and provide them with an exceptional recruitment experience
- At least 8+ years of recruitment experience, ideally recruiting for business positions
- Proven track record for assessing talent beyond matching key words on a CV/resume
- Ability to connect and effectively communicate with people of all levels
- Exceptional teamwork and multi-tasking skills
- Metrics & data driven approach
- Must thrive and prioritize in a rapidly changing environment
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- Business recruitment experience
- High volume recruitment experience
- Design thinking methodologies to deeply understand employee needs, rapidly prototype experience solutions, and implement data-driven iteration cycles that measurably enhance engagement and retention
- Experience leveraging AI tools in the flow of work. Candidates with a pre-existing comfort level and familiarity using AI to enhance productivity /innovation preferred
- Tool curiosity and adaptability, ability to quickly learn and adopt new technologies in a fast-evolving recruiting tech stack
US Zone 1
This role is not available in Zone 1
US Zone 2
$137,700—$186,300 USD
US Zone 3
$122,400—$165,600 USD
Top Skills
Ai Tools
Dropbox Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
Chicago, IL, United States
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