Director of Talent Acquisition
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Our user base has doubled in the last year alone, and we have paid over $1 billion directly to creators on our platform. In order to support this level of growth, Patreon is looking for a Director of Talent Acquisition.
What you will do
- Drive Talent Acquisition strategy for expanding locations, shifting away from Recruiting only.
- Have the acumen and executive presence to become a true business partner across the company.
- Ability to challenge the team/organization while holding them accountable for their commitments.
- Strong leadership/people management skills with a style that inspires confidence.
Skills and experience you possess
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in Human Resources including at least 8 years focused on talent acquisition.
- Demonstrated success working in a high growth, competitive market for technical and creative talent.
- Strong business and financial acumen linked to strategic insight and vision.
- Deep focus on operations, systems, performance metrics and data analytics.
- An understanding of the business and the ability to anticipate the impact of talent on the future success of a company.
- International recruiting and management experience, a plus.
- Management of talent branding strategy.
- Drive and own internal hiring and interview education for managers and leaders.
- Lead recruiting teams globally, including mentoring and coaching junior talent.
Bonus
- Experience working with Europe and Asia on hiring and special projects
- Expert sourcing techniques
- Creating a talent branding strategy from scratch
- Co-leading internal training and educational programs
- Co-leading workforce planning
- Experience working at both a start up and larger corporation
Who you'll work with:
At Patreon, you'll join a high-performing and highly-empathetic team of people who proudly work on fulfilling our mission of funding the creative class. Our culture of creator-first, thoughtful teammates keeps work creative, stretching, and rewarding.
Patreon aspires to be among the tech industry’s most inclusive work environments. Not only is it the right thing to do, but pursuing diversity of perspectives helps us build for our diverse community of creators and patrons. To learn how we're working towards this, please click here.
We work hard to maintain a bottom-up decision-making culture. We empower our employees by providing a clear vision and tools to fulfill on it. We believe that hiring smart, thoughtful, people and giving them strong ownership of their work leads to the best results.
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