About the Job

This is not your typical recruiting position, at Sovrn the role of recruiting is a true partnership with the business. We take a consultative approach to not just hiring but working with teams to ensure we are making the right hiring decision to drive success. You will have the opportunity to work throughout the business, managing a robust requisition load that covers a diverse set of functions (sales, marketing, engineering, G&A, etc). Sovrn values the hiring experience and you will play a vital role in attracting and securing our amazing employees. 

About the Team

We are an extremely hard working team that understands the importance of speed, but knows when to pump the breaks. We hold candidate experience second to none and pride ourselves in our ability to keep hiring teams extremely happy. We collaborate. We source. We pitch. We process. We close. We love to experiment and try new things. We bring positively and a sense of humor to work.

What you’ll be doing:

• Building partnerships with hiring managers to be an effective advisor on hiring strategies.
• Managing the full cycle recruitment processes.  
• Developing and maintaining recruiting programs that align with the recruiting strategy .
• Identifying and developing strategies for tapping new markets to attract qualified pools of diverse candidates.
• Having the occasional hard conversation with hiring managers regarding headcount goals, requisition prioritization expectations.
• Creating and leading recruiting marketing strategies that support the Employer Branding initiatives. 
• Establishing and maintaining community partnership to promote the candidate pipeline.
• Driving decisions and continuous improvement through analysis of recruitment metrics.
• Managing all recruitment tools and established contacts. 
• Partnering with People Team Leadership and Finance on headcount forecasting and goal setting.
• Building and maintaining a solid candidate experience from beginning to hire. 
• Collaborating with People Operations to ensure we maintain competitive compensation practices and effectively onboard our new team members
• Training hiring managers on best recruiting practices at all stages of the recruitment lifecycle
• Doing all of the above in a manner that seeks to attract diverse candidates, ensures fairness, and removes bias from all aspect of our recruitment and selection processes

About You

You’re driven, thoughtful, and curious. You understand how competitive the talent market is and you have welcomed the challenge in navigating and finding the right talent. You’re comfortable working and managing multiple reqs, while working through the ever changing priorities at scale. You believe that a diverse team is a stronger team and genuinely care about creating an inclusive and equitable approach to recruiting to achieve that goal.

The successful candidate will have:

• Recruiting experience in a high growth tech environment, preferably with a focus in engineering and sales.
• Consultative approach to building strong relationships with hiring managers and their teams. 
• Strong problem solving skills with creative approaches.
• Growth Mindset: We are a growing company and need people who will take initiative, fail fast, and learn from their mistakes  to be successful in the role. 
• Clear, concise and engaging written communication style (we will probably ask you to write an InMail).
• Superb organizational skills,  strong attention to detail, deadline-driven and punctual.
• Dangerous curiosity, not afraid to ask questions, learn about our business, our technology, our open roles, and what makes Sovrn a great place to work.
• The skills to work independently but to also ask for help, direction, clarification when needed.
• Strong interpersonal skills, an approachable style and the ability to manage complex relationships and difficult conversations.

Nice to have:

• Bonus points for familiarity with our ATS, Greenhouse

Position Reports to: Manager, Recruiting

About Sovrn

Publishers create the content the world depends on for education, entertainment, and commerce. Sovrn provides products and services to tens of thousands of online publishers to help them grow, operate their business, understand their readership, and manage consumer data. Sovrn is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado with offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. 

With 10,000 customers deploying one or more products across 30,000 websites, Sovrn reaches 200M consumers across more than 3.5B pageviews everyday. Sovrn has been a leader in online publisher technology since its founding, and has been recognized by IAB, JICWEBS, and TAG for its role in combating advertising fraud and promoting pro-transparency initiatives. Sovrn is dedicated to helping content creators do more of what they love, and less of what they don’t.

Sovrn is an Equal Opportunity Employer!