Design Recruiter, AMER (Fixed Term Contract)

Stripe; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Toronto is seeking a Design Recruiter to enhance its global design organization. The role involves full-cycle recruiting, developing strategies for hiring top design talent, and improving the candidate experience. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of recruiting experience, with a focus on design, is adaptable, and possesses strong communication skills. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to a dynamic team in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience.
• Experience in Design Recruiting within fast-paced environments.
• Ability to shift tasks as circumstances change.
• Proven abilities to attract passive senior candidates.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to understand hiring objectives.
• Initiate changes to existing recruiting processes.
• Track, analyze metrics, and report on hiring progress.
• Create strategic plans to attract specialized tech talent.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for candidate experience.

Skills

Recruiting experience

Design recruiting

Data-driven problem solving

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Job description

About Stripe

Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of all sizes—from new startups to public companies like Amazon and Salesforce—use our software to accept online payments and run technically sophisticated financial operations in more than 100 countries. By helping businesses accept payments from anywhere in the world and accelerating the economic shift from offline to online, we aim to increase the GDP of the internet.

What you’ll do

To further this important mission, we are looking for a driven and collaborative Design Recruiter who has experience with design recruiting to grow and scale our global design organization. You can expect high impact and wide-ranging responsibility: owning full-cycle recruiting on niche searches, contributing to our geo strategy with talent market insights, and delivering best-in-class candidate experience. This person must be a builder who thrives in a learning environment—unafraid to try new things, embrace new ideas, navigate ambiguity, and welcome suggestions for how we can iterate on our processes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders across the design organization to understand hiring objectives and develop recruiting strategies to identify top talent across various skillsets including product design, brand design, content design, design engineering, UX research, and more.
• Help initiate creative and scalable changes to our existing recruiting processes.
• Track and analyze metrics and report on hiring progress to leadership on a regular cadence.
• Focus on creating strategic plans to attract and engage specialized tech talent across different geos.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams like Finance, People Ops, Benefits, Onboarding and Legal to deliver a high-quality and holistic candidate experience.

Minimum requirements

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience with 2+ years of Design Recruiting experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, including in house experience.
• Experience building high performing, high craft design teams and delivering an exceptional candidate experience.
• A growth mindset and truly flexible. You can shift tasks and priorities when circumstances change (at a fast-growing startup, they often do).
• An active and data driven approach to problem solving; you enjoy making sense of the trends and using the insights to better your process to make it more efficient.
• Proven abilities to attract passive senior candidates and build a diverse pipelines across different hiring locations.
• Strong operational rigor with the ability to stay organized amidst change.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with an appropriate blend of professionalism and friendliness.