Position Overview 

We are looking for a smart, business and tech savvy, and collaborative Design Recruiter to join us on a contract basis for 2 months initially, with potential to extend as business scales. You love what you do - connecting designers and design-related professionals with exciting opportunities and helping clients achieve their objectives by finding the best and brightest. You can learn quickly and love working quickly. You write and speak persuasively. You come with experience in design recruitment and love developing meaningful relationships with clients and candidates. 

General Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end retained search and recruitment process including sourcing and rigorously qualifying design candidates, assessing cultural fit, consulting to client hiring managers, facilitating the extension and acceptance of offers to close

• Learn and apply our candidate evaluation assessment to score candidates 
• Participate in search kickoff meetings to review objectives and develop/refine project plans and timelines
• Contribute to/execute on search and research strategies, sourcing candidates from networks, referrals, professional networking groups/sites and other sources
• Identify and evaluate candidates quickly and thoroughly, guiding them through our unique screening and evaluation processes
• Provide a positive experience for clients, candidates and colleagues throughout the search process

• Develop meaningful relationships in a manner that is consistent with Vee’s purpose, brand and values

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Manage searches within established and compressed timelines
• Contribute to search-specific research strategies; conduct primary/secondary research

• Report on results in daily status meetings, including growth in candidate pools and pipeline progress, sharing new learnings, addressing roadblocks, redirecting research strategy
• Keep ATS and Office 365 and Sharepoint up-to-date
• Prepare/present candidate materials, including resumes, work samples, and profiles
• Provide input for client search status reports and other documentation
• Prepare candidates for interviews, coaching them on resume and sample presentation, and gather their feedback post-interview

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in liberal arts or field related to our focus areas
• 3 years of experience in full-cycle recruitment, preferably in retained search
• 1 years of UI/UX, Product, or Industrial Design recruiting experience at consumer-focused tech or media companies, or design agencies.

• Ability to be able to scope out and present top portfolios.
• Understanding of top tier design skill; an eye for how products "look" and "feel".
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Passionate about human-centered design and experience design and design research.
• Tech fluency and platform agnosticism. Fast self-learner on different platforms, program and apps related to talent sourcing, recruitment and CRM; Greenhouse and Hiretual experience a plus

• Excellent verbal and written communication and influencing skills
• Strong engagement and relationship building skills
• Experience in design or related recruitment - UX, innovation, strategy, experience, product and industrial design, digital media, marketing and/or communications preferred

Profile 
The ideal candidate will/be/have:

• A sense of urgency and have the ability to learn and produce quickly in a fast-paced environment with a strong drive for results; operating with high emotional agility and resiliency
• Advanced technical agility - you are driven to push the limits of technology to acquire, engage, and evaluate top design talent (Vee is data-driven by People Science and Data Science) 
• Work independently as well as collaboratively to stretch thinking into creative solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication along with storytelling skills
• Client presence – able to connect and inspire confidence with clients

• Passionate about design and about creating impact
• Attention to detail
• Innovative with entrepreneurial spirit - excited about and suited for a startup, where you’ll be wearing many hats
• Smart and fun with an empathetic nature which will add to our culture

About Vee

Our founders and team have deep expertise in branding, innovation, design, I/O psychology, organization design, digital & data product development, enterprise software and application development complemented by experience with clients ranging from emerging Silicon Valley unicorns to established leaders in government and the public and private sectors including American Express, Bank of America, BMW, Box, HP, Lowe’s, Mastercard, Microsoft, Nissan, Pepsico, Procter & Gamble, SAP and The Clorox Company, among others. For more information, check out our website in transition at https://www.letsvee.com/.