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Director, Talent Acquisition
Group Nine Media
New York, NY, United States
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Group Nine Media is one of the world's largest digital-first media companies, boasting over 5 billion monthly video views and reaching 80% of U.S. adults in their 20s. As the no. 1 most engaging publisher on the social web, Group Nine's brands are built for consumption on the platforms where their millennial-focused audience spends the majority of their time. Group Nine is home to NowThis (the no. 1 most watched video news creator on social), The Dodo (the no. 1 animal brand on social), Thrillist (the most trusted brand in food, drink, travel & entertainment) and Seeker (the digital leader in science and innovation).
The Director of Talent Acquisition will lead the development and execution of Group Nine’s recruitment strategy. This includes providing support to all of Group Nine’s brands such as The Dodo, NowThis, Thrillist, and Seeker. They will define, develop and implement a best-in-class approach to attracting, evaluating and hiring top talent across all Group Nine brands. The ideal candidate is a natural leader with strategic recruiting experience and proven ability to develop strong relationships across the entire organization. They will thrive in a fast-paced environment and know how to translate business needs and priorities into practical recruiting plans and processes.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Provide expert guidance, facilitation and collaboration for all senior leaders, hiring managers, and the talent acquisition team to recruit, identify, select, onboard, and retain highly skilled best in class candidates
• Provide leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to the talent acquisition team and hiring managers on interviewing best practices, offer recommendations, negotiating/creating job offers, closing, and administrative functions involved in full cycle recruiting
• Build talent communities and talent pipelines for critical skill areas and diversity sourcing efforts, which yield into hiring outcomes for the business.
• Partner with hiring managers and senior leaders in a proactive way that manages hiring expectations
• Ensure reporting objectives are met and data is transformed into useful business intelligence
• Manage team metrics and performance, ensuring each team member's personal growth and career development
• Lead, assess and manage team workloads to ensure consistent distribution of requisitions and rebalancing of work as necessary
• Design, implement and maintain the appropriate processes, tools, systems and training necessary to scale and support the recruiting function
• Introduce innovate hiring methodologies through identifying unique and non-traditional sources for finding candidates
• Design, implement and measure sourcing strategies that support the execution of the employment brand and drive high volume, thus creating targeted and diverse candidate pipelines
• Lead end to end recruitment processes for strategic and executive positions
• Assist human resources and senior leadership with headcount and succession planning strategies
Qualifications:
• Requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources or similar field, and 8+ years’ experience recruiting best in class talent
• Must have 5+ years of previous experience leading a recruiting team
• Possess strong executive presence with demonstrated ability to develop positive relationship and success in influencing leaders across the company at all levels
• Strategic thinker with hands-on style to deliver practical and effective solutions
• Well organized and comfortable with prioritizing and managing multiple priorities, possesses ‘can do’ attitude not afraid to roll up their sleeves
• Experience creating and implementing projects and processes from inception to completion
• Strong metrics orientation with a track record of driving performance and evaluating the ROI of talent acquisition plans
• Proven track record with developing creative recruiting strategies that drive overall business effectiveness
• Experience strategically sourcing candidates from a variety of sources; managing/driving the full life cycle recruitment process, conducting compensation analysis at the onset of the recruitment process and managing negotiations and closing at the offer stage
• Proficiency with web-based recruitment tool(s); experience with Greenhouse preferred
• High proficiency in Microsoft office suite
We offer great benefits such as medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), PTO, company paid AD&D, Life Insurance, Short-term & Long-term disability, and much more!
Group Nine Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and everyone is encouraged to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.
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