Manufactured Looking for Head of Talent Acquisition at Los Angeles, CA Full Time

Salary: $130,000 – $180,000

Location: Remote with travel as required

Manufactured is a venture backed inventory platform. We are building the first inventory exchange for SMBs creating, making, and selling physical products around the world. We serve customers doing $1M – $100M in annual revenues in Fashion, Accessories, Healthcare, food & beverage Materials, CPG, Food, Electronics, Home Goods, Industrials, and Commodities.

With over 500+ vendors across 25 countries (and growing), we make the inventory cycle a breeze by handling everything from vendor discovery and negotiation to shipping, warehouse coordination, quality control, PO advances, through to collections. With over $120 million in volume powered by Manufactured since we launched in 2019, we deliver a compelling inventory partnership for fast growing SMBs.

We are a post-Product Market Fit, Series A startup that is growing 600% Year on Year. There is tremendous opportunity in our 35 person team to take ownership, make an impact, and build an extremely rewarding, accomplished career.

We don’t care about:

• Where you went to college
• What you studied
• If you’ve worked at blue chip companies

We do care about:

• What you’ve done
• What you can do
• How you’ll do it

This looks like:

• Making success a priority: We value ownership, initiative, and tenacity
• Having a point of view: We hire smart people and want to hear opinions. We’re low ego, and we welcome feedback and new ideas informed by data and intuition
• Being a good person and teammate: We all contribute to a positive, inclusive workplace. Direct communication, kindness, and integrity are non-negotiables

You’ll be trusted and challenged to do your best work in a fast moving, high performing environment. If this sounds like you, please read on!

The role:

We’re hiring our first recruiting leader! This is a strategic hire that affects the entirety of company culture. You’ll build our talent acquisition function and team from the ground up. You’ll design and execute a best in class talent acquisition strategy. You’ll also run a full cycle recruiting process for a few key roles.

The Head of Talent Acquisition is a strategic hire that affects the entirety of the Company culture and morale. Manufactured is NOT a hire-at-all-costs and we question fit, understanding and learning curve constantly during the hiring process. Understanding why each role is critical to the business as it stands and where the right candidate will fit inside the corporation in the short and medium term is also key part of the role. You’ll work closely with our Founders to build an incredible team.

Your strategic and creative. Our ideal candidate is someone who takes a lot of pride in driving a number of non-traditional candidates at the top of the funnel and curating that funnel for quality over volume during the process..

Qualifications:

• 8+ years as a full cycle recruiter for fast growing tech companies
• You’re a generalist recruiter with experience hiring for executive, technical, and non-technical roles. You have some experience hiring outside of the United States
• You bring a track record implementing new talent acquisition programs in an early stage startup.
• You understand how each role supports business goals and are able understand how each role and candidate will fit inside the business for the short and medium term
• You’re creative and entrepreneurial. You’re tenacious and drive great outcomes
• Highly collaborative with excellent communication skills
• You’re business oriented and see the full picture. You’ve previously partnered with other business leaders on designing and building great teams
• You bring a strategic and data driven approach to talent acquisition
• You’re ready to build from the ground up!

The role:

• Establish and lead a top class talent acquisition strategy and organization
• Build a strong, curated funnel of talented candidates
• Identify and source candidates from non-traditional backgrounds
• You’ll also recruit for critical roles. You’ll run the process from sourcing to close
• Build a strong recruiting muscle in the organization. You’ll implement standardized interview processes, train our team how to interview, and drive team referrals
• Establish and track recruiting success metrics an iterate to constantly improve
• Lead employer branding and ensure that top talent knows about Manufactured
• Manage agency and vendor relationships and associated spend
• Hire a diverse, inclusive, and high performing team
• Eventually, build a talent acquisition team. Hire, coach, and lead a talented team of talent acquisition pros

Working at Manufactured:

We’re a remote first company, based in Los Angeles. Our team is around thirty people strong, and growing quickly.

Manufactured is a small, fast growing startup. Which means we deal with ambiguity and require a sense of ownership from all our team members. This is reflected in our core values.

Our core values are:

Urgency: Always act like an owner, seek help in case of delays beyond 48 hours, move quickly when you have enough information (usually 70-75%), know when to dive in if there’s a crisis, and hold true to the best possible timelines without compromising on quality, value or process.

Authenticity: Be Authentic, be real, be respectful both, in front of and behind a person’s back. If you are frustrated, you’re frustrated. If you’re stuck, you’re stuck. If you’re worried, you’re worried. Let’s support each other in resolving these issues. Be upfront and respectful in your conversation. We are a multi cultural, distributed, global team. Respectful authenticity in communication is critical.

Contextual Ownership: Our business is as much about people and relationships as it is about technology and process. We take time to build relationships and understand the needs of our internal and external partners. Context and empathy helps us understand the “why”. We set goals and drive outcomes based on context and realities, rather than tasks and process alone.

Effectiveness: Did it work? Did it solve the problem? Was it a short term hack? or a long term process solution that benefits everyone? Was it something we can use to grow / move forward or was it a defensive solution. Did we meet our stakeholders’ expectations, did we exceed them? Did our stakeholders all win? Are you using your time correctly? Are you helping your team members use their time well? Are you contributing to the growth of the company?

Critical path thinking: “What is the shortest risk-mitigated route to the Best Potential Outcome?”

Our CEO and Founder, Pranay Srinivasan, writes often on LinkedIn about our culture and operating principles. We recommend these articles in particular:

Our Core Values

Our operating framework: OBAS