Lead Recruiter, Technology Recruiting

This position is a hybrid in-office role that works out of our Boston HQ (Monday-Thursday will be working in office and Friday is WFH). This is not a virtual / remote position.

The Wayfair Talent Acquisition team is strategic to the company's overall success and continued growth. Our recruiters are true business partners and work alongside our business to focus in the areas of strategic sourcing, placement of candidates and process improvements. As a Lead Recruiter, you will work with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment and closing approaches and manage senior stakeholder relationships. This is an incredible and unique opportunity to join a rapidly growing eCommerce company as a true business partner and make a significant and immediate impact.

What You'll Do

• Drive the full lifecycle recruiting process including sourcing, screening, interviewing, evaluating and offer negotiation to meet established metrics 
• Balance recruiting efforts across all major tech job families (Software Engineering, Machine Learning Science, Technical Analytics and Product Management)
• Partner with the business to design, build, execute, and measure a strategic recruiting plan to attract the world’s best technical talent
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and peers through well structured, frequent communication and reporting
• Use a variety of advanced sourcing techniques to identify and attract the very best Engineering talent into the hardest to fill roles at Wayfair
• Build and maintain passive talent pipeline through proactive market research
• Use data to solve problems in all areas of recruiting and define success, translate metrics into usable insights for stakeholders
• Improve processes and efficiencies and champion innovative talent acquisition ideas with regards to top of funnel activity and high fidelity throughput
• Ensure an impressive candidate experience through top-tier communication and timely feedback, as well as interviewer preparedness and effective interview formatting
• Actively mentor junior recruiters and raise the skill level of the team in which you work

What You'll Need

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 7+ years of full life cycle technical recruiting experience delivering results in an agency and corporate setting, preferably in high growth environments with ambitious scaling challenges
• Experience hiring senior level roles across a minimum of two technical job families (Software Engineering, Data Science / Machine Learning, Technical Analytics, Product Management)
• Exceptional critical thinking skills with the ability to prioritize multiple roles across multiple stakeholders and job families
• Familiarity and comfort with a data driven environment, ability to use metrics to guide decision making and strategy setting  
• Ability to collaborate effectively-  with our teammates, stakeholders, and suppliers
• Deliver results with agility- prioritize work that drives long-term value
• Execute with urgency - learn from failure, and nimbly pivot
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

Last updated on Aug 20, 2024