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About Pursuit

Our mission is to create economic transformation. By training low-income adults to launch and advance careers as software engineers, we help our Fellows earn from eighteen thousand dollars a year to over ninety thousand starting salary on average, adding an estimated $2M in lifetime earnings. Pursuit partners with leading companies like Blackstone, USV, Citi, Peloton, and Uber to employ Fellows in career-defining engineering roles and supports them with on-the-job training to ensure potential translates to performance. Since 2013, Pursuit has created ~$1B in total lifetime wage gains, creating lasting economic mobility that spans generations. 

Pursuit’s proven solution is built on two interconnected components: training (which includes community development, Core pre-job training, and Commit on-the-job training) and a financial product (known as Bond). However, growing training alone will not meet the magnitude of need nor solve new societal challenges ahead. The typical expectation is to expand our training to other cities, but this will not come anywhere close to creating good jobs for millions of low-income Americans. Instead, our strategy for scaled impact is to evolve our financial product and create tools for other organizations, jobs, and places. We believe that this will not only create good jobs for millions of low-income Americans but will also generate a new trillion-dollar market directly tied to results in the long term.

Position Overview: Pursuit is in search of an experienced and diligent recruiter to join our Talent Acquisition team for a significant and challenging growth phase. We’ll need this individual to partner with our hiring teams ranging from the c-suite to middle management and across multiple functions. This individual will need to project manage active candidates and devise unique and thoughtful outreach and engagement plans for passive talent to ensure the timely completion of multiple vacancies. In addition, this person will aid in the development of our hiring content (JD’s, Practical Exercises, Work Product Reviews) and the design of our hiring process. The right candidate must be comfortable partnering with c-level hiring managers, working on industry-unique vacancies, and organizing and leading the complete life cycle of recruitment, for their vacancies. In addition, they must possess a demonstrated history of maintaining extremely high behavioral standards for past hires. 

Reports to: Talent Acquisition Director

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage Candidate Experience:  Promote and effectively communicate Pursuit’s long term vision and strategy, core mission and value proposition to all candidates. Effectively screen viable candidates and ensure they are clear on role expectations, cultural standards at pursuit, and interview process. Coach and guide candidates through the hiring process ensuring they have clear expectations on what skills and behaviors will be evaluated at each interview stage. 
• Project Manage Vacancies: Coordinate and work closely with all hiring managers and candidates (both inbound and sourced) Manage cross functional teams seamlessly and at a high level in order to properly execute the hiring process. 
• Develop Hiring Content: Partner with Hiring Managers in order to develop job descriptions that effectively communicate the value and excitement of a role to passive candidates. In addition, ensure all vacancies have a clear hiring process complete with Practical Exercises and Work product Review Assignments.
• Maintain Applicant Tracking System (Greenhouse): Ensure that all job vacancies are accurately reflected within Greenhouse and that candidates are on the correct jobs and interview stage. 
• Support Hiring Teams: Lead preparation sessions with the hiring panel to ensure new interview stages are appropriately executed. Ensure interviewers have a clear sense on what they are assessing and the focal point of each interview. Also lead candidate debrief sessions for late stage candidates to ensure calibration and alignment on the vacancy and potential hire.

Qualifications:

• Full Cycle Recruiting: You've owned full cycle recruitment across a variety of disciplines, mainly business recruiting roles, in a startup environment. You have exposure/experience working with immigration/visa issues, and managing external agencies.
• Passionate and Mission Driven: Deep commitment to Pursuit’s mission to help underserved and underrepresented communities achieve financial independence 
• Relevant Education and Work Experience: Undergraduate degree and a minimum of 5 years of professional experience as a full-cycle recruiter within the Tech or Consulting industries. This experience will ideally have been in early-stage and/or high growth environments with each vacancy having a critical impact on business objectives. 
• Superior Technical Skills and Toolkit: Project management expertise and experience. Strong analytical skills. Proven experience and track record of filling difficult vacancies, with passive talent. Comfort and expertise working within LinkedIn recruiter and Greenhouse is essential. 
• Work Ethic, Results Driven and Attention to Detail: Hardworking, data driven, relentlessly meticulous, driven and outcomes focused. Experience working closely and building consensus with organizational leaders to achieve desired results
• Strong Communications Skills: Outstanding verbal and written communication skills. Strong presence
• Thoughtful and Creative: Intelligent, resourceful, flexible, and solution-oriented

Bonus points if you have:

• Significant startup experience - ideally you've helped more than one company scale 
• Executive Search - either from an agency or your internal remit as a recruiter

Where you'll work:

• Hybrid - You will be working on site in our Long Island City, NY Office 2-3 days/week

Pursuit offers:

• Great culture where transparency, respect, teamwork, and kindness are valued
• Competitive compensation in base, plus bonus and a full benefits package
• Unlimited PTO and an all-Pursuit week-long holiday during the summer and the last week of December

Salary & Benefits:

$130,000 - 160,000 base with incentive-based performance bonus

In addition to competitive compensation, we are happy to provide employees with a range of benefits. Our offerings include premium health, dental, and vision insurance, flexible paid time off, robust 401k matching, and discounted gym memberships.

Pursuit values diversity:

Our team has a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, and we value the richness that diversity brings to our organization. We welcome new perspectives and affirm that all employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, age, familial or marital status, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Pursuit is an equal opportunity employer.