SendGrid recruited & hired 130 people in 2014.  Seriously.  And we have an uber-aggressive & selective growth plan for 2015, including go-to-market in the San Francisco area.  We are looking for a contract Sr. Recruiter to join our smallish 4-person recruiting team, focused on our up-and-coming Bay Area office.  We need a Swiss Army Knife who has worked in diverse recruiting environments, and who will be able to step right in and make an immediate impact on our hiring demand.

The Sr. Recruiter will be responsible for owning a portion of the hiring plan - working with hiring managers to develop and execute full lifecycle recruiting strategies. This is a critical role and we are looking for someone who is super passionate about recruiting, who totally geeks out on recruiting technology and who is committed to creating a flawless candidate experience while also doing the right thing for SendGrid.  You will need to be a strong written and verbal communicator with demonstrated expertise in sourcing methods and strategy, building robust candidate pipelines and, most importantly, knowing what “good” looks like.

What You’ll Do

• Build pipelines of top talent through research and sourcing
• Obsess about candidate experience
• Identify and engage qualified candidates, providing consistent communication throughout the process
• Qualify candidates for technical and cultural fit (culture is our code)
• Drive the full recruitment lifecycle for all the jobs in your purview
• Represent SendGrid with integrity and professionalism (and fun!) in the local tech and recruiting communities, including attending relevant user groups and meetups
• Facilitate candidate debriefing sessions, providing recommendations and guiding the candidate selection process
• Love where you work

About You

• You are smart but humble
• Extensive experience sourcing and recruiting for technical talent in the SF Bay Area
• Minimum 5 years of experience with full lifecycle recruiting, including extensive sourcing of passive candidates
• Experience recruiting for a high-tech company, with a thorough understanding of software development technologies, roles and processes
• High business acumen and passion for solving business challenges through talent acquisition
• Specialized expertise recruiting for senior-level Software, Architecture, Quality and Systems Engineering roles
• Combination of corporate recruiting and staffing agency experience, preferred
• Excellent relationship-building skills
• Recruiting breadth; experience in multiple industries and geographies, recruiting all levels
• Proven ability to work in an extremely high-volume, demanding, fast-paced, entrepreneurial/startup environment
• Experience leveraging a multitude of recruiting and sourcing technologies
• Entrepreneurial spirit - a natural desire to innovate and a natural ability to get things done
• Excellent negotiation, analytical and presentation skills
• Maybe you have a college degree, maybe you don’t - what matters to us is that you’re smart and get things done

We've told you our story; now tell us yours.  Please include a cover letter with your application that demonstrates why you are the right person to help us scale up the SendGrid team!