Who We Are
Chomps is America’s fastest-growing meat snack brand, redefining convenient snacking with a commitment to real ingredients and bold, satisfying flavors. Crafted from 100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef and venison, along with antibiotic-free turkey and chicken, each Chomps meat stick delivers 10+ grams of high-quality protein without sugar, hormones, soy, dairy, artificial preservatives, artificial nitrates, or MSG. Seasoned with a blend of flavorful herbs and spices, Chomps provides a nutritious protein snack for the whole family. As a minority-owned, family-operated, and B Corporation-certified business, Chomps prioritizes thoughtful sourcing and recently earned the non–ultra-processed food certification through the non-GMO project. Discover a new standard in snacking at www.chomps.com.
Traits of a Chompian
If you’ve been called nimble, resourceful, and persistent, then you might just be a Chompian. You’re a team player who’s self-motivated and action-oriented. You’re committed to delivering efficiency and accuracy, and you happen to be great at proactive cross-functional communication. You’re a critical thinker and a natural problem solver who enjoys details, research, and data. You take initiative and complete ownership of everything you do, and you’ll go the extra mile for your team, consumers, and audience. You’re hungry to learn with a passion to grow and improve every day. You also take a keen interest in health, fitness, and nutrition. Sound like you? Then we want to meat you.
What You Will Do
As Recruiting Director, you’ll build and lead a scalable talent acquisition function that keeps pace with Chomps’ growth. You’ll own recruiting strategy end-to-end, from workforce planning and pipeline development to employer branding and hiring systems, while coaching and developing the Talent Acquisition team.
Reporting directly to the Senior Director, People & Culture, you’ll lead the execution of Chomps’ hiring roadmap and serve as the company’s senior voice on all things recruiting.
Responsibilities
Recruiting Strategy & Execution
- Own the end-to-end recruiting strategy, translating Chomps’ hiring roadmap and workforce plan into scalable sourcing, screening, and hiring programs.
- Partner with the SVP, People and Senior Director, People & Culture on annual and quarterly hiring plans, forecasting headcount needs against Chomps’ growth trajectory.
- Open and prioritize requisitions within the approved headcount plan.
- Serve as the escalation point for roles facing process, sourcing, or approval blockers, resolving issues quickly to keep searches moving.
- Own executive-level and niche searches, partnering closely with leadership to define role requirements, build targeted sourcing strategies, and deliver high-quality candidate pipelines.
- Set recruiting priorities and standards across all requisitions, ensuring hiring managers and interview teams operate to a consistent, high bar.
Team Leadership & Development
- Manage, coach, and develop the Talent Acquisition team by providing clear goals, feedback, and direction across recruiting priorities, workload, performance, and development.
- Foster a collaborative, accountable team culture that scales cleanly as hiring volume grows.
Systems, Process & Data
- Own the recruiting tech stack (Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, Handshake), driving adoption and continuous improvement.
- Maintain recruiting funnel and efficiency metrics and use data to identify bottlenecks and opportunities.
- Build and evolve recruiting reporting to provide clear leadership visibility into pipeline health, hiring progress, team capacity, and key recruiting trends.
- Identify and implement AI automation opportunities across the recruiting lifecycle to streamline administrative work, improve candidate communication, strengthen data quality, and increase team capacity for strategic recruiting activities.
Employer Branding & Candidate Experience
- Partner with People Team leadership to maintain and strengthen Chomps’ employer brand positioning, ensuring the company continues to stand out as an employer of choice in a competitive CPG market.
- Expand and nurture talent pools and communities for hard-to-fill and future roles.
Cross-Functional Partnership & Compensation
- Advise department leaders on org design, role scoping, and competitive offers.
- Manage compensation benchmarking to keep offers competitive and equitable.
- Own all third-party recruiting agency relationships and vendor decisions.
- Provide a regular hiring-health update (pipeline, time-to-fill, open roles) to the People Team leadership.
Recruiting Compliance & Risk Management
- Ensure hiring practices comply with EEO, OFCCP, and other applicable employment regulations, partnering with our PEO as needed.
- Maintain data integrity and audit readiness across the ATS, recruiting records, and compliance-related hiring documentation.
- Champion fairness, transparency, and consistency across all hiring practices as the organization scales.
Who You Are
- 8+ years of progressive talent acquisition/recruiting experience, including 2+ years leading recruiters or a TA function
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field preferred
- Proven ability to scale recruiting operations through periods of headcount growth
- Strong leadership and coaching skills, with experience developing high-performing recruiting teams through growth and change
- Deep knowledge of full-cycle recruiting, ATS platforms (Greenhouse or similar), and sourcing tools
- Data-driven and analytical, with the ability to translate recruiting metrics and reporting into clear actions, recommendations, and leadership updates
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and influencing skills across all levels, including executive leadership
- Passion for purpose-driven brands, culture-building, and high-quality food/CPG space a plus
- Experience working with remote teams.
- Experience navigating an international brand landscape
- Highly ethical and able to deal with confidential issues with tact & discretion
- Ability to be entrepreneurial and methodical
- Results-oriented and process driven, with high expectations of self and team
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to build trust, communicate clearly, and work effectively across teams
Position: Director, Talent Acquisition
Reports to: Sr. Director, People & Culture
Location: Remote
Type: Full-Time, exempt
Salary Range Opportunity:
- The salary range for this role is $160,000 - $170,000 + 25% annual bonus
Compensation Philosophy & Total Comp:
- Our salary ranges are based on verified market data and our philosophy of paying competitively for our size and industry
- Individual pay rate decisions are based on several factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company
- In addition to base salary, full-time team members receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401K 6% match, and monthly reimbursements for wellness and home office.
Other Perks:
- Ability to make an impact: Join a rapidly growing and entrepreneurial-spirited team at a pivotal point to positively impact the food industry.
- Opportunities to grow: Advance within Chomps quickly based on outstanding performance.
- Unlimited PTO, 15+ paid holiday days and quarterly mental health days. Hybrid & flexible remote schedule. Chicago office open to those in the area.
- Paid maternity and paternity leave.
- Bi-annual total team in-person activities.
- Company-wide Continual Education budget.
- Unlimited snacks: Enough meat sticks that if you wanted to eat your body weight in them you could (no judgment here).
Our Commitment
Chomps is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. To achieve our mission of making nutritious food more accessible we greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which comes from diversity of all types, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do and the smart thing for our business.
We're aware of the research showing that historically underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a job if they don't believe that they meet all of the criteria. Do you hesitate to submit an application because you believe you need to check every box? Please apply anyway with a thoughtful cover letter! We would love to hear from you to discuss how you can help us build a great team at Chomps.
You must reside in the United States to be considered for this position. Chomps does not provide employment-based visa sponsorship at this time. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Important Notice:
It has come to our attention that fraudsters have been posing as Chomps employees or recruiters and contacting job-seeking candidates regarding potential job opportunities. These fraudulent messages sometimes include a request for payment and confidential personal information. Please note that the Chomps recruiting process does not include asking candidates for payments or other confidential financial information. If you are applying for a job, you can confirm the legitimacy of a job posting by viewing current open roles: https://chomps.com/pages/chomps-careers. If you have questions please email us at [email protected]
Chomps Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
200 N Green St, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60607
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