Are you an experienced recruiting leader with a passion for identifying top-tier talent and building teams that make an impact? We want to meet you!
Our ideal candidate is both a hands-on doer and a strategic leader who will be shaping our internal team, growing our provider network, and improving and establishing key processes for our clinical recruiters. Day-to-day, you’ll oversee the team that recruits our care provider network, drive network-expansion through data-informed strategies, nurture long-term relationships to maintain a deep bench of talent, as well as partnering with capacity operations and clinical leadership to ensure a smooth and scalable activation and staffing experience.
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to:
- Build bar-raising recruiting functions from the ground floor
- Help increase access to care for students with learning differences
- Work somewhere mission-driven, with unparalleled opportunities for growth
- Work somewhere flexible, supportive, and where you won’t be micromanaged
- Join a female and founder-led organization
- Work somewhere that is team-oriented, where people are equipped to succeed
- Directly own and lead continuous recruiting and hiring process for Parallel providers including facilitating the interview process, screening candidates, coordinating interviews, sending case studies, and collecting feedback, negotiating offers and closing candidates
- Build and maintain a network of clinical talent who understand Parallel’s provider proposition and stay engaged with us
- Manage a team of clinical recruiters & sourcers to oversee hiring of Parallel clinical providers (SLPs, School Psychs, Social Workers, Special Education teachers) and ensure attainment of KPIs
- Ensure the recruiting team provides best-in-class experiences to all candidates
- Leverage job platforms and recruiting resources to proactively source candidates and build diverse talent pools
- Oversee capacity operations; matching providers in our network to appropriate assignments, maintaining accurate data on hours of capacity, and escalating priorities accordingly
- Champion cross-functional partnerships with revenue and clinical teams to strategically grow our provider base
- Lead recruiting team performance tracking, including metrics such as:
- Sourcing to interview conversions
- Time to move through each funnel stage
- Time to fill
- Interviews per week
- Average hires per week
- Recruiting to forecast
- Activation readiness
- Renewal rate
- Continuously analyze recruiting funnel data to improve performance metrics
- Partner closely with the marketing team to improve inbound sourcing, leads, brand awareness, nurture campaigns, and funnel conversion rates
What You’ll Need
Ideal candidates will be innovative, forward-looking talent acquisition and operations professionals with prior experience in a high-growth startup! A great fit for this role will have:
- A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience
- 6+ years of experience staffing, with at least 2 years in high-volume recruiting and 2+ years of experience managing a team of recruiters
- Strong process management and improvement skills with a track record of leveraging technology to improve efficiency, employee/candidate experience, and tell data stories
- Prior experience in a high growth start-up or other fast-paced dynamic work environment
- Expertise with sourcing tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, and Boolean search
- A passion for providing best in class candidate experiences
- Ability to source candidates, maintain a strong pipeline, and build a diverse talent community
- The ability to learn quickly and multi-task effectively
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Stellar organization and time management skills
- A strong sense of integrity, professionalism, and the ability to maintain confidentiality
- Bonus points if you are have experience using Greenhouse ATS
- Bonus points if you are have recruiting experience in healthcare or education
- Bonus points if you have grown a team rapidly
Parallel is the first tech-forward provider of care for learning and thinking differences across the United States. We believe learning differences are parallel ways of thinking that should be celebrated! Our mission is to provide students with the resources and encouragement to succeed in the classroom and beyond. To us, this means helping them build confidence in their unique strengths and create strategies to work around their challenges.
Parallel simplifies the process of getting support for learning differences by consolidating providers and resources on a single platform. We connect students with qualified professionals while significantly reducing waiting times, costs, and confusion. We provide a variety of services, including:
- Psychological Assessment & Therapy
- Counseling
- Speech-Language Therapy
- Special Education
- And more!
Want to know what it's like working here? Check out our Glassdoor reviews!
Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
At Parallel, we believe in celebrating differences. This belief extends from schools into our workplace and through the ways we work together toward our mission. We are committed to fostering a diverse, accessible environment that represents many different cultures, backgrounds, viewpoints, and abilities by championing diversity, equity and inclusion.
This is why we are committed to having and fostering a diverse workforce, including those from historically marginalized groups, and are committed to a work environment where employees’ strengths are championed, differences are celebrated, and no one is discriminated against based on age, race, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, national origin, or any other characteristic.
We are a proud equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization in order to build the foundation for different learners and thinkers to thrive.
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