Candidate Experience & Talent Operations Manager

Terray; Monrovia (CA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Health benefits

Job summary

Terray Therapeutics is seeking a Recruiting & Candidate Experience Manager to guide candidates through a thoughtful, efficient hiring process across life sciences and technology. You’ll partner with hiring managers, post roles in the right places, manage external recruiting relationships, and ensure candidates have a great Terray experience.

You don’t need to be a scientist, but you should understand the roles well enough to communicate credibly.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating recruiting, talent acquisition, or a similar people-focused process in a fast-moving organization.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to keep multiple searches, candidates, and hiring teams moving at once.
• Excellent candidate communication and relationship-building skills.
• Strong judgment and ability to partner effectively with hiring managers and senior leaders.
• Experience coordinating interviews, hiring decisions, offers, and onboarding.
• Comfortable using recruiting data and systems to track progress, identify bottlenecks, and improve processes.
• Highly organized, responsive, and attentive to details without losing sight of the overall candidate experience.
• Curious and comfortable learning enough about highly technical roles to communicate effectively with candidates and hiring teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with hiring managers. Define candidate profiles, interview plans, recruiting strategies, and personalized onboarding plans.
• Get our roles in front of the right people. Ensure jobs are posted and promoted through the most effective channels and talent communities.
• Be the candidate’s point of contact. Build relationships with candidates and keep them informed and engaged throughout the process.
• Manage external recruiters. Determine when third-party support adds value and manage those relationships for quality, effectiveness, and cost.
• Understand our work and talent market. Build knowledge of Terray’s science, technology, and roles to be an effective partner.
• Keep hiring decisions moving. Gather feedback, coordinate hiring discussions, and ensure clear decisions and next steps.
• Partner through offer and close. Coordinate with People Operations and hiring managers on offers, candidate questions, and closing.
• Own the onboarding experience. With the hiring manager, tailor onboarding to each new hire’s experience and background.
• Coordinate hiring through onboarding. Guide candidates from application through their first weeks at Terray, keeping the experience organized, timely, and thoughtful.
• Use data to improve hiring and onboarding. Track effectiveness, identify bottlenecks, and continuously improve the candidate and new-hire experience.

Skills

Project management

Candidate communication

Stakeholder collaboration

Recruiting coordination

Data-driven

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Recruiting systems

Job description

Terray Therapeutics is seeking a Recruiting & Candidate Experience Manager to guide candidates through a thoughtful, efficient hiring process across life sciences and technology. You’ll partner with hiring managers, post roles in the right places, manage external recruiting relationships, and ensure candidates have a great Terray experience.

You don’t need to be a scientist, but you should understand the roles well enough to communicate credibly.