Overview:

The pathway to a stable career is changing in the U.S. and many young adults are struggling to navigate that path. We believe that everyone - not just the fortunate few - deserve a great education to kickstart their working lives. For the 30+ million working young adults who’ve yet to finish college, finding a path back to school is expensive and overwhelming. Moreover, it’s often entirely unrelated to their current work, the next step in their career, and their long term goals. But Guild is paving a new path - providing great job training and degree programs for working adults. We offer a mix of customized classes and programs, and we also work in partnership with top American universities to provide college degree programs for our students. Our work is directly with top American employers looking to build modern and relevant programs for their employees. We help Guild members take the next step towards a meaningful career, with a community to support them along the way.

The Job Responsibilities for Director of Talent:

This is a hybrid role spanning all talent efforts at Guild, including sourcing, recruiting, hiring, onboarding, career development, performance management, and overall recruiting and HR strategies. Specific roles and responsibilities include:

• Design and implement overall talent strategy alongside Guild leadership team for our team of 45 and growing!

• Develop and manage company-wide recruiting and hiring processes, building a strong foundation to identify, engage, and close top tier talent

• Lead full-cycle recruitment (sourcing, identifying, evaluating, closing, onboarding) across a variety of non-tech and tech roles, building a high-touch candidate experience to land top talent for our business needs

• Collaborate with hiring managers around role definition, pipeline calibration, interviewing preparedness, candidate assessment and decision making

• Evaluate, choose, and become the subject matter expert on, the right recruiting systems and tools, including Greenhouse, and interview and selection tools

• Use data and metrics to determine the success and health of recruiting; continue to iterate on and improve the effectiveness of our recruiting practices

• Passion for designing and implementing data driven hiring policies and programs across organization

• Designing and implement strategies and processes related to compensation, organizational structure, change management, employee relations, training and development, performance evaluation, retention and HR policies

• Promote company’s reputation as a fantastic place to work

We want you if your mindset includes:

• A sense that you’re a builder, not an editor

• A strong sense of accountability and co-ownership of challenges

• A desire to work in an environment where priorities change as we learn

• Ambition to help achieve our mission while progressing your career

• A love for the all hands-on deck feel of a startup—no task too big or too small

• Humility as a team player with a willingness to a diversity of assignments - incredibly difficult challenges to somewhat mundane tasks - depending on the day

• Passion for entrepreneurship & social impact in the higher education and employment space

We want you if your background and skillset includes:

• An established track record of success in building high performing talent, recruitment and HR teams

• Proven recruiting experience with strong track record for sourcing and attracting top candidates, as well as process management experience

• Solid ability to conduct different types of interviews based on best practices and research

• Hands-on experience with various selection processes (phone screening, interview coordination, reference check etc)

• Proven HR experience building processes and procedures for a growing company

• Familiarity with HR databases, applicant tracking systems and CMS

• Experience supporting growing teams in a high-growth startup environment

• Experience supporting compensation, organizational structure, change management, employee relations, training and development, performance evaluation, retention and HR policies

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Strong decision-making skills

• The skills to work independently but to also ask for help, direction, clarification when needed

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to manage complex relationships and difficult conversations

Why us?

• We’re a mission-driven company with a proven business model that addresses a massive problem and market opportunity. It’s our goal to to support as many Guild members as possible, and change the world along the way

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits package

• We’ve recently closed our $8.5M Series A round, and we’re eager to bring new members to our team who can help us keep up with our growth

• We’re a rapidly growing team with 40+ years of combined experience at three different ed tech companies, guided by leading investors including Redpoint Ventures, Social Capital, Harrison Metal, and Cowboy Ventures

• Training in Design Thinking - we’re disciples of the process with experience building businesses at Stanford’s Design School, and we love sharing the methodology

• Our co-founders have collaborated together for 10+ years, including two past ventures in education technology and higher ed, and are committed to building a community and company where we all love to work

• Unlimited growth potential - we’re looking to grow smart, talented people with our company

What you won’t get from Guild:

• Micro-management or hourly directions. We want people who thrive when given ownership and autonomy to take initiative and run with projects. That said, we’ll support you and give you feedback regularly

• A 9-5 mentality. We believe in what we’re trying to accomplish and work hard to try to do it. This doesn’t mean putting in face time. It does mean working until the job is done

• Reverence for the status quo. We believe what’s out there today for our students doesn’t cut it, plus we love change and believe it’s our job to function as a learning organization. That means near-constant evolution, reflection and change

• Corporate pace or precision. At Guild, done is better than perfect. If you like having certainty about your plans or dislike quick turnaround times, we’re not a great fit

• Corporate perks. We’re scrappy and place our students first above all else. Everyone who works with us full time is an equity owner, and we want you to love coming to work but that unfortunately won’t include a $500 chair or an on-tap kombucha bar ;-)