Recruiting Lead

Topsort; Somerville (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Topsort is seeking a Recruiting Lead to manage the hiring roadmap and support a growing team of recruiters. The role involves hands-on recruitment and developing strategic hiring initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives, and providing an exceptional candidate experience. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in recruiting, team management, and a proactive, data-driven approach.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 7 years in recruiting with a focus on scaling a sales organization.
• Experience managing a high-performing team for at least 3 years.
• Ability to develop and implement strategic hiring plans aligned with company objectives.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive full-cycle recruiting including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and evaluating candidates.
• Partner closely with C-level executives to set hiring strategy and roadmap for the company's growth.
• Lead a team of recruiters and provide mentorship and support to achieve hiring goals.

Skills

Analytical skills

Leadership

Communication

Collaboration

Job description

We're quickly growing and super excited for you to join us!

Why Topsort? Why now?

Topsort is changing the way Retail Media works. By joining our scaling team, you'll feel your impact from day 1. The processes and messaging you build today will be a critical part of our foundation as we accelerate toward 200 Topsorters worldwide, and your innovations will leave a lasting mark on the industry, as a whole. Retail Media is on the verge of a new era, and Topsort is gathering the ecosystem together to shape a brighter future. Joining us now, you'll work directly alongside our co-founders and founding members to bring on Retail Media 3.0. If you're looking to define your career as something greater than yourself, come scale with us.

What it's like to work at Topsort

Our team is all about straightforward communication, embracing feedback without taking it personally, and fostering a super collaborative environment. It's a sports team that's hyper focused on winning, collaborative internally, and competitive externally - never the other way around. We thrive on working in the open, lifting each other up, and getting things done with a sense of urgency. We're the kind of team that loves making bold choices, sharing extraordinary opinions, and maintaining a 100 mph pace. No endless meetings here – if it can be done today, we're all about getting it done today.

What is this role like？

Recruiters at Topsort are given a tremendous opportunity to have a huge impact on Topsort's growth - both in terms of raw headcount and our evolving culture. As the recruiting lead, you will be managing the roadmap of future Topsorters, owning the hiring of all new Topsorters, and report to our HR and People Lead. You'll be based in the Boston office but work with a team of recruiters from all over the world and have a global scope of recruiters that are also based in other hubs as we continue to grow at a global scale. You'll be hands on in key and strategic searches, like a player, and more supporting roles in other roles and ensure the metrics, calibre of talent also meet the bar like a coach. You'll also develop a strong foundation of knowledge Topsort, as you will pride yourself on being a Topsort ambassador to candidates, and develop deep knowledge on Topsort's product and people, setting clear expectations for interested candidates and identifying the right individual for every opening. The Recruiting Lead will balance hands-on responsibilities of recruitment with big-pictures goals, including talent acquisition process standardization, recruiting benchmarking, and strategic growth planning.

Requirements:

• Lead, mentor, and support a team of recruiters and sourcers, ensuring they achieve hiring goals and develop professionally
• Serve as a culture carrier within the People & Talent organization, driving excellence, high performance, and engagement
• Partner closely with senior leaders, hiring managers, and the broader talent team to align recruiting strategies with business priorities
• Utilize talent analytics to track key performance indicators, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions to optimize the hiring process and improve the overall efficiency of your direct team as well as the border talent team
• Leverage technology to establish best practices and drive productivity across recruiting teams
• Lead cross-functional initiatives (such as interviewer training, tool rollouts, and process improvements) to elevate hiring performance and team effectiveness
• Work with c-levels to develop and constantly evolve hiring roadmaps, openings, and talent strategy to ensure we hit hiring plan and also tap into the best talent in the market!
  
  

What You'll Need

• A minimum of 7 years in recruiting with an emphasis on scaling a sales organization
• A minimum of 3 years leading high-performing teams
• Experience with managing expectations and reporting out to senior leadership such as the Chief Business Officer, VP of Sales, and other leaders in the sales organization
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement strategic hiring plans aligned with a companies objectives, with a focus on continuous improvement
• Analytical rigor and ability to proactively drive clarity with data
• Proven operational excellence and attention to detail
• Thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment with a level of ambiguity
  
  

What this role looks like:

• Own and drive full-cycle recruiting including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and evaluating candidates for GTM and technical roles
• Partner closely with c-levels to set hiring strategy and roadmap of the company and own entire company's headcount growth plan
• Build creative sourcing strategies to engage hard-to-find and passive talent
• Provide an exceptional candidate experience that reflects our values and growth mindset
• Leverage data to track hiring metrics, identify bottlenecks, and recommend improvements
• Adapt quickly to evolving hiring needs and prioritize roles based on business impact
• Champion best practices for interviewing, assessment, and selection
• Represent Topsort externally to help build our employer brand and talent pipeline
  
  

About Topsort

At Topsort, we believe in the mission of democratizing the secret technologies of the walled gardens and creating a privacy-first cookie-free world of clean advertising with modern tech, friendly products, and AI. We believe in making advertising intuitive, intelligent, and genuinely cool, without any of the creepy ads or cookie-obsession (well, maybe just the chocolate ones). In a rapidly changing industry, we're on a mission to democratize monetization access for all and ensure that advertising doesn't leave any brand or seller feeling confused or overwhelmed

Today, Topsort has 5 major hubs worldwide, and employees in 13+ countries, including Menlo Park, Boston, Santiago Chile, Sao Paulo Brazil, Barcelona Spain, and Sydney Australia. We are a truly global company that was born in the pandemic that's had rapid growth since out of a genius product, a customer-first mentality, and a hardworking team of talented individuals. Since our founding in 2021, we've gained customers in retail, marketplaces, and delivery apps in 40+ countries and quickly approaching the #1 position in the industry.

Do you enjoy a fast-paced environment? Do you like seeing your work create real-time impact, being part of a rocket ship from the very beginning? Let's do the unimaginable - let's make ads clean and cool again, with AI and modern technology.

Topsort Culture

• Speed: We work hard, set aggressive goals and execute flawlessly to accomplish them. We give candid feedback, push each other to set higher goals and produce more impact by always thinking "how do we do this faster and better"
• Fast Growth: We believe startup scaleup is just like a team sport. It's been written in our motto since day 1 that we are collaborative internally, competitive externally, and never the other round around. You are ultimately surrounded by just different people that are all here to help you get the job done and shine as a team.
• Intellectual Rigor and Individuality: We were born in the pandemic by Stanford and Harvard alum cofounders who offer remote-working options with coworking memberships and (at least) once a year in person offsite gathering. You'll be welcomed by coworkers in 11 countries that all bring a unique perspective to the company from day 1. From personalized birthday gifts to work anniversaries, and management training program or in-person gatherings or career talks and mentorships, part-time DJs and tik-tok vloggers are also commercial leaders and technical staff at Topsort. We don't take management with a cookie cutter approach - but rather we cherish your quarks and think it makes us stronger.
  
  

Do you sound like the right fit? Let's dive right in!