Founding Lead Recruiter

• Build our talent function and recruiting processes from scratch
• Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, from sourcing and screening to negotiating and closing
• Be a strategic partner to hiring managers across the company, collaborating on candidate strategy and ensuring that hiring goals are met in a timely manner with top-tier candidates
• Create a positive, seamless, and fair candidate experience
• Initially lead employee onboarding until we can grow into a larger people function
• Report to and collaborate closely with our founder/CEO
• Be the face of Charge Robotics and help us build a stellar employer brand

• 6+ years of experience in recruiting, at least some of that for engineering roles
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Superb negotiation and relationship management skills
• Detail-oriented with a ruthless ability to prioritize
• Metrics-driven mindset, leveraging data to understand pipeline health and improve velocity, quality, retention
• Believe in treating all people with dignity and respect, regardless of title or tenure
• Proficient in ATS and other HR technologies to support data-driven decision-making and process optimization
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, in-person startup environment
• Based in or can relocate to the SF Bay Area, and able to work 4-5 days/week from our San Leandro HQ

• Passionate about and knowledgeable of robotics
• Have a 4-year degree in the liberal arts or a related area
• Have hired across software and hardware roles
• Have experience building out a people function for a small and rapidly growing team, incl. owning recruiting-adjacent processes like onboarding, brand-building, or HR
• Excited to see our robots deployed onto actual solar farms

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