Field Recruiter - Retail Store Hourly Roles

Petco; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 45,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Petco is seeking a Field Recruiter to enhance their retail store teams by sourcing and hiring top talent. This remote role requires strong relationship skills, urgency in recruitment, and effective communication with hiring leaders. Ideal candidates have significant recruiting experience and a background in HR.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid paternity leave

Paid maternity leave

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of recruiting experience.
• Ability to work independently and manage projects.
• Experience working with business leaders.

Responsibilities

• Attract and hire top talent for retail roles.
• Manage high-volume recruitment efforts.
• Conduct behavioral and competency-based interviews.

Skills

Communication

Negotiation

Relationship Building

Project Management

Education

4-year college degree and/or Human Resources certificate or PHR/SPHR

High school diploma or equivalent with two years of college-level courses

Job description

Field Recruiter (Retail Store Hourly Roles)

Field Recruiter (Retail Store Hourly Roles)

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Create a healthier, brighter future for pets, pet parents, and people!

If you want to make a real difference, create an exciting career path, feel welcome to be your whole self, and nurture your wellbeing, Petco is the place for you.

Our core values capture that spirit as we work to improve lives by doing what’s right for pets, people, and our planet.

• We love all pets like our own
• We’re the future of the pet industry
• We’re here to improve lives
• We drive outstanding results together
• We’re welcome as we are

Petco is a category-defining health and wellness company focused on improving the lives of pets, pet parents, and Petco partners. We are 29,000 strong and operate 1,500+ pet care centers in the U.S., Mexico, and Puerto Rico, including 250+ Vetco Total Care hospitals, hundreds of preventive care clinics, and eight distribution centers. We’re focused on purpose-driven work, and strongly believe what’s good for pets, people, and our planet is good for Petco.

As a Field Recruiter supporting hourly hiring for retail stores, you will play a critical role in attracting and hiring top talent to deliver exceptional in-store experiences. You’ll partner closely with field leaders and store teams to understand staffing needs, source qualified candidates, and manage high-volume, fast-paced recruitment efforts across multiple locations. This role requires a strong sense of urgency, excellent relationship-building skills, and the ability to execute consistent, inclusive, and efficient hiring practices that align with business goals.

This is a remote role and can be based anywhere in the United States.

Essential Job Functions

The partner must be able to perform all of the following duties and responsibilities with or without a reasonable accommodation:

• Creatively leverage recruiting tools including the Internet, TAS, CRM, networking guides, referrals, and job fairs to identify, source, interview, select, verify, negotiate offers, relocation, and benefits, and onboard candidates for store grooming roles. This position must be able to include passive candidates in candidate slates, proactively cold call passive candidates, and keep relationships with passive candidates “warm” in a scalable manner.
• Drive quality hiring outcomes by conveying an understanding of critical components of functional business results and proactively identifying potential hiring needs and role expectations, demonstrating knowledge of the internal and external labor markets, and influencing two-way partnerships with hiring leaders by establishing trust, setting strong expectations, probing inquiry, making difficult trade-offs, and managing priorities.
• Proactively establish relevant internal and external business relationships to facilitate referrals, gain cross-functional business knowledge, and promote the Petco employee value proposition nationwide. Collaboratively share contacts and business knowledge with colleagues to enable enterprise-wide understanding of the talent team and support a centralized recruiting model.
• Leverage effective verbal and written communication skills to drive value from internal and external partnerships to manage the recruitment timeline and achieve performance deliverables. Examples of partnerships are external placement agencies, skill-based membership organizations, and internal business leaders.
• Conduct behavioral- and competency-based interviews with candidates to determine knowledge, skills and abilities compared to job scope and requirements. Evaluate candidate fit for departmental and organizational needs and make recommendation to business leaders based on these interviews.

Education/Experience

• High school diploma or its equivalent (GED) with two years of college-level courses in business, management, communications or education, or the equivalent combination of education and experience. 4-year college degree and/or Human Resources certificate or PHR/SPHR is strongly preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of recruiting experience.
• Minimum 2 years of experience working with business leaders as a strategic partner through functional knowledge, business acumen and influencing skills.
• Ability to adjust communication styles appropriately to work with a diverse set of leaders and associates at various levels across the organization.
• Proven ability to develop creative and effective business plans and influence leaders to achieve win-win situations.
• Demonstrated negotiation and project management skills.
• Ability to work independently in dynamic work environment and demonstrate high comfort level in working with initially ambiguous and unstructured projects.

Note: Current responsibilities are impacted by company and team priorities that may have evolved from what is displayed in the Workday job profile. The description provides general job duties and requirements, but the partner’s manager may assign additional responsibilities or tasks depending on business needs.

Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or any other protected classification.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Human Resources

• Industries

  Retail

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Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid paternity leave

Paid maternity leave

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