Staff Technical Recruiter

Ford; Long Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 127,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid time off

Vehicle discount program

Job summary

Ford is actively seeking a Talent Acquisition leader to attract, hire, and retain top talent for its EVDD initiatives. The role emphasizes DEI advocacy, stakeholder collaboration, and strategic employer branding across global markets.

The position is hybrid, requiring onsite four or more days weekly, with a leadership level 6; salary ranges from $127,100 to $239,900, reflecting scope, responsibility, and market value. Ford offers comprehensive health benefits and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of recruiting experience, including technical and automotive recruiting, with an understanding of how recruiting can influence a company’s inclusion and diversity landscape.
• Expertise in full-cycle recruiting, from intake and sourcing through candidate assessment, offer, and close.
• Proven ability to engage, influence, and close hard-to-recruit candidates in a competitive market.
• Experience or exposure to recruiting in global markets and partnering with candidates or stakeholders across different locations and cultures.
• Ability to own the candidate experience and provide a thoughtful, responsive, and consistent experience from initial contact through offer and close.
• Self-motivated and driven, with a track record of identifying solutions, taking initiative, and delivering impact.
• Curious and resourceful, with the ability to look beyond the job profile, research market trends and relevant technologies, and develop a strong understanding of the business and its talent needs.
• Open to feedback and committed to continued learning and career development.

Responsibilities

• Conduct intake meetings with hiring managers to understand needs, ensuring alignment between job descriptions, and target candidate profiles
• Persistent pursuit of passive candidates via personalized reach-outs
• Be an advocate for DEI both internally and externally
• Conduct initial phone screens with candidates to assess suitability for positions
• Source high caliber active and passive candidates through various methods and tools, including networking, search tools, job boards, referrals, events, etc. Use your creativity!
• Partner with hiring managers to make offers and effectively hire highly sought after technical talent in a competitive market
• Regularly manage pipeline activity and maintain data integrity, and proactively share data-centric updates with internal stakeholders
• Establish and maintain meaningful relationships with management and key cross-functional stakeholders internally (e.g. Recruiting, HR, Compensation, and Diversity teams)
• Join projects related to employer branding presence and strategy

Skills

7+ years recruiting

Full-cycle recruiting

Stakeholder influence

DEI advocacy

Talent networking

Candidate experience

Market research

Learning & feedback

Education

Some college coursework or equivalent relevant experience

Job description

In this position...

As part of our Talent Acquisition team, you’ll help us attract, hire and retain the top talent we need to achieve our bold vision. You’ll play a vital role in defining, developing and maintaining the winning culture that empowers diverse individuals to work together and create the impossible. We’re seeking change leaders, talent strategists, employee advocates and culture architects to enable our teams, partners, and businesses to do and be their best., Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners.

As part of our Talent Acquisition team, you’ll help us attract, hire and retain the top talent we need to achieve our bold vision. You’ll play a vital role in defining, developing and maintaining the winning culture that empowers diverse individuals to work together and create the impossible. We’re seeking change leaders, talent strategists, employee advocates and culture architects to enable our teams, partners, and businesses to do and be their best., Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams! With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

What you'll do...

• Conduct intake meetings with hiring managers to understand needs, ensuring alignment between job descriptions, and target candidate profiles
• Persistent pursuit of passive candidates via personalized reach-outs
• Be an advocate for DEI both internally and externally
• Conduct initial phone screens with candidates to assess suitability for positions
• Source high caliber active and passive candidates through various methods and tools, including networking, search tools, job boards, referrals, events, etc. Use your creativity!
• Partner with hiring managers to make offers and effectively hire highly sought after technical talent in a competitive market
• Regularly manage pipeline activity and maintain data integrity, and proactively share data-centric updates with internal stakeholders
• Establish and maintain meaningful relationships with management and key cross-functional stakeholders internally (e.g. Recruiting, HR, Compensation, and Diversity teams)
• Join projects related to employer branding presence and strategy

You'll have...

• Some college coursework or equivalent relevant experience.
• 7+ years of recruiting experience, including technical and automotive recruiting, with an understanding of how recruiting can influence a company’s inclusion and diversity landscape.
• Expertise in full-cycle recruiting, from intake and sourcing through candidate assessment, offer, and close.
• Proven ability to engage, influence, and close hard-to-recruit candidates in a competitive market.
• Experience or exposure to recruiting in global markets and partnering with candidates or stakeholders across different locations and cultures.
• Ability to own the candidate experience and provide a thoughtful, responsive, and consistent experience from initial contact through offer and close.
• Self-motivated and driven, with a track record of identifying solutions, taking initiative, and delivering impact.
• Curious and resourceful, with the ability to look beyond the job profile, research market trends and relevant technologies, and develop a strong understanding of the business and its talent needs.
• Open to feedback and committed to continued learning and career development.

Even better, you may have...

• Experience recruiting in a heavily matrixed organization, building effective partnerships across functions, business units, and leadership levels while navigating differing priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to guide hiring teams toward timely, well-informed candidate decisions by sharing candidate insights, market context, and clear recommendations.
• Ability to communicate a compelling case for an opportunity, connecting candidates’ interests and career goals with the role, team, and organization.
• Experience recruiting for specialized technical roles, such as embedded software engineers, systems integration engineers, thermal engineers, chassis controls engineers, battery development or cell-testing specialists, and mechanical hardware engineers.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a leadership level 6 and ranges from $127,100-$239,900.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.