Head of Recruitment

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop a 6–12-month recruitment strategy that encompasses key capabilities, talent markets, sourcing channels, team enhancement, and functional improvements.

• Collaborate with the Head of People and business leaders to translate business objectives into hiring scenarios.

• Evaluate hiring capacity and feasibility, suggesting priorities, resources, and budget allocations within approved limits.

• Outline recruiting responsibilities, performance standards, and capability requirements.

• Guide the recruiting team and nurture potential future leaders.

• Oversee the recruiting AI roadmap, focusing on talent research, sourcing, communication, interview documentation, and analytics.

• Establish success metrics, test workflows, evaluate output quality, train users, and scale effective solutions.

• Enhance ATS workflows, improve data quality, and optimize reporting.

• Manage integrations with technical partners and take ownership of tools and data.

• Provide hiring forecasts, identify hiring risks, and evaluate source effectiveness, cost of hire, funnel performance, and quality indicators.

• Create consistent scorecards, interviewer guidance, calibration, and candidate communication protocols.

• Develop market insights and talent pipelines for Growth, Product, Analytics, Engineering, and other priority sectors.

• Engage selectively in executive or business-critical hiring processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience leading recruitment efforts in a product IT company.

• Ability to align business priorities with a practical recruitment function roadmap, demonstrating tangible results.

• Experience in hiring for B2C digital products.

• Knowledge of mobile applications, subscription models, and performance marketing.

• Familiarity with Growth/Marketing and other product or technical functions.

• Experience in forecasting hiring needs and evaluating team capacity.

• Proven track record in proposing resource or budget options with clear assumptions and trade-offs.

• Experience in taking at least one recurring recruiting workflow from problem identification and pilot phase to team adoption.

• Experience implementing effective AI solutions with proven value and quality controls.

• Leadership and change management experience in developing recruiters and introducing new practices.

• Ability to collaborate with People and business leaders, constructively challenge assumptions, and make hiring-priority decisions based on market data.

• Capability to connect data quality, workflow design, funnel performance, and costs to management decisions.

• Experience with evidence-based evaluation, interview feedback, calibration, and ownership of decisions.

• Strong proficiency in English for independent strategy discussions, presentations, and international hiring conversations (B2+ reference point).

• Nice to have: direct experience in mobile B2C subscription, EdTech, wellness, or lifestyle products and web2web/web2app businesses.

• Nice to have: experience in building or significantly rebuilding a recruitment function during product or company growth.

• Nice to have: experience with ATS integrations, no-code/low-code workflows, recruiting dashboards, or reusable AI-assisted processes.

• Nice to have: experience in executive search, expanding into new talent markets, and long-term talent community development.

🏝️ Benefits

• Engaging work that influences the company and the way people learn.

• Innovative environment centered on experimentation and EdTech advancement.

• Opportunity to work with leading-edge AI technologies to transform education.

• Collaborative culture with skilled, passionate professionals.

• Ownership of impactful projects.

• Opportunities for professional growth and skill development.

• Freedom to innovate and experiment.

• Valued initiative and creativity.