The Role

Reporting to the Chief People Officer, the Head of Talent Acquisition will play a critical role in defining, leading, and executing the TA strategy of our high-growth public company. You will partner across our retail, manufacturing, and corporate leadership teams to refine their hiring profiles and exceed their expectations by bringing top talent to Green Thumb as we look to build the best team in the industry. This position will champion our brand, mission, and cultural values; develop compelling market positioning; bring innovative and optimal recruiting technology solutions; define and communicate our recruiting process; and measure and continuously improve our success in hiring quality, speed, and candidate experience.  This role will successfully operate in a matrixed and entrepreneurial environment.  This is a rare opportunity for a seasoned talent acquisition leader to create and execute an innovative and successful recruiting program to support a well-positioned US cannabis company through its next phase of growth.

Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and communicate an optimal talent acquisition strategy and process to meet our growth needs
• Build, lead, and coach a growing yet lean team of exceptional talent acquisition professionals. Recruit for positions and leverage external resources for optimal alignment of our resourcing 
• Serve as a recruiting advisor and partner to our leadership team and be a critical driver of recruiting excellence across the organization
• Align with finance, manufacturing and retail leadership, and our People Team to optimize workforce planning
• Ensure our recruiting process, status, and priorities are well communicated and understood by the leadership, and our goals are tracked and achieved in terms of quality, time, budget
• Partner with our Communications team to promote our brand, mission, and values through our recruiting process and collateral
• Collaborate with the leadership team and hiring managers to clarify hiring profiles with increasing rigor
• Lead D&I as part of our DNA including outreach and relationship-building to deliver a highly qualified diverse applicant pool and outcomes
• Develop innovative sourcing strategies to find highly capable candidates, leverage our Greenhouse ATS and vendors, and build talent pipelines
• Measure and review outcomes and develop insights to improve our process, team productivity and development, candidate experience, and overall recruiting process
• Drive a culture of compliance and ensure compliance requirements are met

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree. Master’s preferred.
• 10+ years recruiting leadership experience with market-leading companies. Preference for a combination of experience in public companies, high-growth organizations, and retained search.  Experience with exempt/non-exempt employees required.  
• A dynamic recruiting leader well-networked in relevant and or multi-industry contexts– e.g., CPG or pharmaceutical or similar manufacturing environment, retail, technology
• Passionate about talent acquisition and generating a diverse, capable, smart, engaged workforce
• Leads a fast-paced function to drive the business forward
• Proficient in ATS systems and reporting status and outcomes
• Experience with mergers/acquisitions and organizational restructuring
• Excellent writing skills – can package ideas simply and persuasively
• Ability to acquire a thorough understanding of the organization's jobs, qualifications, and compensation
• Enjoys spending time at sites/stores and engaging and building relationships with teams and employees
• Thrives at relationship building with exceptional communication and influencing skills
• Strong business acumen and judgment. Able to assess trends from data in a convincing and direct way for better decisions
• A change agent with a growth mindset, comfortable with ambiguity
• Able to lead, coach and influence across a spectrum of stakeholders
• Entrepreneurial, innovative, and pragmatic. Client-service mindset
• Natural rapport-builder with exceptional collaboration, coaching, influencing, and facilitation skills
• Operationally strong, high capacity to execute
• Sees the big picture and understands how things connect. Operates at both strategic and tactical levels and appreciates that sorting the details is a requirement
• Thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and can execute amid changing priorities
• Personal commitment to the highest standards of work product, confidentiality, and integrity
• Must pass any and all required background checks