The People Operations team strives to create and deliver a seamless and positive employee experience across the entire employee lifecycle. Leading with our company values, we develop efficient and simple people processes, systems, policies, and programs. Our main goal is to grow our team through providing a strong culture and value for all of our employees.

The Expertise You Have

• Proven success in the development of college recruitment programs
• Demonstrated experience with all campus recruiting lifecycle components including sourcing, qualifying and assessing students, networking, college market trends and relationship management.
• Bachelor’s Degree in communications, Marketing, Journalism, or a related discipline
• Experience working cross-functionally and hold people accountable for deliverables without a formal reporting structure
• Demonstrate strategic, analytical and problem-solving skill
• Strong understanding of Excel (Pivot Tables, V-Lookup, etc.)

The Skills You Bring

• Success building long-term relationships with clients and business partners
• Excellent organizational, project management, influencing, negotiation and presentation skills
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task, focus on details, and work well under pressure to meet tight deadlines
• Demonstrated use of technical applications and social media tools for recruitment such as Linked In, Facebook, Twitter
• Experience working independently and collaborating with a team
• Possess strong business acumen
• Experience supporting HR communications

The Value You Deliver

• Ready to recruit for an organization that is focused on rapid growth
• Cultivate, drive, and maintain relationships with college career services, deans, faculty, students, alumni, and professional student organizations
• Provide direction to firm and influence college strategy as University market expert
• Share key insights to assist in delivering creative and innovative approaches to campus recruitment with stakeholders
• Partner with People Operations Leader to coordinate campus activities host/attend career fairs, meetings and conferences
• Actively recruit and present top talent college students to team as needs are identified
• Source and vet experienced candidates for more senior team roles
• Serve as subject matter expert in college workforce trends
• Ensure consistent approach to corporate brand and image in all campus activities
• Determine level of commitment and serve as primary relationship manager
• Travel as required throughout the college recruitment cycle to multiple regions

About Ocient:

Ocient is a Chicago-based, venture-funded startup building a SQL compliant, exabyte-scale database platform that achieves 1,000x better performance than Hadoop and NoSQL systems. It is a distributed system optimized for NVMe drives, RDMA networks and high core count processors and is written in C++. We are led by a management team with seven successful startup exits, including Cleversafe which was the largest software startup exit in Chicago's History!