Talent Strategy Lead
Work directly with the CEO to build exceptional talent acquisition capabilities, developing differentiated strategies for identifying, attracting, and hiring top talent across critical functions.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Work directly with the CEO and company leaders to determine which hires and talent markets could have the greatest impact on Forus
- Develop an original point of view on what exceptional performance looks like across critical functions
- Build deep maps of important talent markets, companies, communities, and individual candidates
- Design creative strategies to identify and engage exceptional people through targeted communities, events, referrals, research, content, competitions, and partnerships
- Shape how Forus presents itself to different talent markets, translating the company’s mission, ambition, operating environment, and opportunities into a compelling talent narrative
- Develop new approaches to evaluating talent where conventional interviews or credentials provide weak signal
- Build repeatable strategic playbooks that allow the broader recruiting team to apply learnings across additional roles and talent markets
Requirements
- Track record of doing high-quality work in a demanding and talent-dense environment (founder, 0→1 operator, investor, product manager, or similar high-performance role)
- Exceptional judgment about people with evidence of identifying, recruiting, backing, hiring, or choosing unusually strong people before others recognized them
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to understand what motivates a specific person and communicate why Forus may be the right place for them
- Enough technical and analytical fluency to understand unfamiliar roles quickly, evaluate evidence critically, work effectively with data, and test new tools or approaches
- High agency and creativity — when obvious channels do not produce the right people, create different channels
- Track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals
- High NPS with former teammates
Nice-to-Haves
- Prior recruiting experience is not required
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: $170,000 - $250,000
- Competitive compensation with meaningful equity
- Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance
- Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody
- Unlimited PTO and 16 weeks of parental leave
- 401K plan, FSA option, commuter benefits, and DashPass
- Lunch at the office every day and dinner after 7 pm
Skills
Talent Strategy, Recruiting Strategy, Talent Intelligence, Candidate Assessment, Talent Mapping, Relationship Building, Talent Branding, Strategic Planning, Data Analysis, Stakeholder Management
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