Lead Recruiter, Wayfair
Technology Recruiting
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4 days a week in office
A global online homeware marketplace
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A global online homeware marketplace
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
4 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 7+ years of full life cycle technical recruiting experience delivering results in an agency and corporate setting, preferably in high growth environments with ambitious scaling challenges
- Experience hiring senior level roles across a minimum of two technical job families (Software Engineering, Data Science / Machine Learning, Technical Analytics, Product Management)
- Exceptional critical thinking skills with the ability to prioritize multiple roles across multiple stakeholders and job families
- Familiarity and comfort with a data driven environment, ability to use metrics to guide decision making and strategy setting
- Ability to collaborate effectively- with our teammates, stakeholders, and suppliers
- Deliver results with agility- prioritize work that drives long-term value
- Execute with urgency - learn from failure, and nimbly pivot
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
What the job involves
- As a Lead Recruiter, you will work with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment and closing approaches and manage senior stakeholder relationships
- This is an incredible and unique opportunity to join a rapidly growing eCommerce company as a true business partner and make a significant and immediate impact
- Drive the full lifecycle recruiting process including sourcing, screening, interviewing, evaluating and offer negotiation to meet established metrics
- Balance recruiting efforts across all major tech job families (Software Engineering, Machine Learning Science, Technical Analytics and Product Management)
- Partner with the business to design, build, execute, and measure a strategic recruiting plan to attract the world’s best technical talent
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders and peers through well structured, frequent communication and reporting
- Use a variety of advanced sourcing techniques to identify and attract the very best Engineering talent into the hardest to fill roles at Wayfair
- Build and maintain passive talent pipeline through proactive market research
- Use data to solve problems in all areas of recruiting and define success, translate metrics into usable insights for stakeholders
- Improve processes and efficiencies and champion innovative talent acquisition ideas with regards to top of funnel activity and high fidelity throughput
- Ensure an impressive candidate experience through top-tier communication and timely feedback, as well as interviewer preparedness and effective interview formatting
- Actively mentor junior recruiters and raise the skill level of the team in which you work
Our take
Wayfair emerged in the early era of eCommerce with a mission to revolutionize online shopping, offering customers a convenient platform to purchase goods. Today, it stands as one of the foremost global players in the online furniture delivery industry, boasting an impressive inventory of over 33 million products.
Renowned for its extensive product range and comprehensive service offerings, Wayfair distinguishes itself by providing an end-to-end customer experience, from browsing to doorstep delivery. Despite its prominence, the company faces profitability challenges attributed largely to expansion expenses. Nonetheless, its solid presence in the competitive online homeware sector solidifies its position as a key contender.
With ambitious global expansion plans, Wayfair remains committed to maintaining its leadership in the industry. As it aspires to become the ultimate destination for all home needs, its more recent ventures into physical retail represent significant strides toward this overarching goal.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company values
- Relentless Customer Focus: Delivering an exceptional customer experience drives everything we do. We invest in understanding our customers and partners. We are all in customer service
- Deliver Rsults With Agility: We prioritize work that drives long-term value. We execute with urgency, learn from failure, and nimbly pivot. The outcomes of our efforts are impactful, measurable results
- Use Good Judgement: We are bold and confident, never reckless. We make reasoned, calculated decisions based on data, critical thinking, and pattern recognition
- Build the Best Team: We lead by setting the bar high, articulating clear goals, and diving deep. We hire, develop, and leverage only the best. Our leaders continually reevaluate and strengthen their teams and do not shy away from hard decisions. We expect and demonstrate excellence
- Collaborate Effectively: We invest in cross-functional global partnerships that maximize impact and minimize duplication. We prize collaboration in all interactions – with our teammates, stakeholders, and suppliers. We disagree, align, and commit. Effectiveness and efficiency in collaboration are required.
- Respect Others: We earn and show respect, treating our teammates and partners with empathy and inclusion. We presume good intent while prioritizing impact. We balance confidence and candor with humility and kindness.
- Be an Owner: We are Wayfair first. We act on what’s best for the company, ahead of team or individual goals. We spend every dollar as if it is our own. We take pride in Wayfair’s success while planning the next win. We always think long-term
- Innovate & Improve: We are not limited by precedent. We boldly challenge the norm. We continually identify opportunities to innovate, improve, and simplify. We value incremental improvements, but we also look for game-changing breakthroughs.
- Adapt & Grow: We value adaptability and self-reflection. We find opportunity in every change, experience, and mistake. We are committed to continuous self-improvement.
Company HQ
Prudential / St. Botolph, Boston, MA
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Leadership
Niraj Shah
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Engineering at Cornell University before co-founding Spinners, a Boston-based IT services company. Previously acted as Entrepreneur in Residence for Greylock and has served as CEO of Wayfair since co-founding the company in 2002.
Steven Conine
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Spinners before working for Operations at iXL. Conine also co-founded Pillar VC in 2016.
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