Head of Talent Acquisition

Venmo

(Chicago, Illinois)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About Venmo
We all love what we do, and we all love doing it together, because we demand the best people to make the best Venmo. Venmo was founded on the principles of breaking down the foreboding walls of financial transactions to make them intuitive and even fun with friends. And it worked, people love sending money with Venmo.
Summary
The Head of Talent Acquisition is empowered to make changes in real-time to move as fast as the rest of the organization when it comes to pivoting process and communication to suit our stage of growth. Building initiatives that will scale as the business scales.
Responsibilities
* Build team needed to meet our aggressive hiring goals * Manage a team between 3 locations who recruit the talent for 2 business units. (Venmo and Braintree) * Work with marketing team across BT, Venmo and PP to create broad initiatives that will yield candidates we want i.e. - video, social media and other rich contact that will help ensure our high-volume recruiting yields high-quality results * Recruit for 1-2 strategic high-level executive roles as needed. * Focus on agreed integration goals, contribute to the broader PayPal talent acquisition leadership team and community and where appropriate drive global, cross PayPal projects and initiatives * Participate fully in the design of senior leadership roles and in selection of talent for those roles. * Manage budget for recruitment tools and resources * Oversee an onboarding experience that sets the stage for long-term retention. * Partner with the People Business Partner to deliver A-level talent to the org., build effective hiring strategy for Braintree and Venmo and improve recruitment process via educating hiring managers * Works to make the process between offer-acceptance to 1st week as remarkable as the hiring candidate experience.
Ideal Candidate
* A strong talent attraction and retention background. * Great practice at implementing people support in a fast-changing environment, building to scale with thoughtfulness and grace. * Personal and professional qualities and experience necessary to build on trust that exists across the organization and with the senior management team. * The ability to motivate and guide people through change, engaging with the employee base to understand ways to rally change, culture and a forward-moving organization. * 10+ years recruiting experience with 5+ years in a people leadership role - strong preference for this experience to be in a tech/fast-paced environment. * Strong business acumen particularly within the progressive technology sector, accurately aware of the war on talent and the agility needed to stay on top in that war. * Ability to build effective, influential partnerships with executive level leadership – as well as strong relationship building skills with all levels of the organization. * Previous track record that indicates he/she has been at the forefront of change as a culture ambassador * Experience collaborating within a matrixed HR environment, * Genuine, forthright and honest. Can maintain and actively and candidly convey an objective perspective on organization and relationship dynamics. * Excellent project management skills with a proven ability to design and effectively implement creative HR solutions that drive business results, engaging employees to get real-time feedback. * Evidence of being a strong team player with the ability to facilitate team building, develop effective partnerships and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders at all levels to accomplish goals. * Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced and frequently changing environment. * Far above average communication skills, able to cut through bureaucracy and to the point in an effort to get stuff done.

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