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About the Role
As the first Recruiter at Light Labs, you will own hiring end to end, playing a critical role in scaling the company by finding and attracting top talent across scientific and go-to-market functions. Your success will directly impact the company's growth trajectory towards a $50M run rate by 2027.
Responsibilities
- Own recruiting end to end, including sourcing, screening, process design, scheduling, offers, and closing.
- Recruit across scientific and go-to-market functions, identifying and attracting top chemists, microbiologists, lab talent, Account Executives, and Account Managers.
- Raise the hiring bar by ensuring every hire elevates the team's average quality.
- Amp up the pace of recruiting by responding to candidates quickly and compressing time-to-offer.
- Proactively hunt for talent through industry mapping and headhunting, rather than relying on job postings.
- Continuously build a network of top industry talent, even when not actively hiring.
- Sell the Light Labs mission and story to candidates with precision and conviction.
- Build scalable recruiting processes, including structured interviews, scorecards, referral programs, and employer branding.
- Utilize AI to personalize outreach and enhance the candidate experience.
- Drive Light Labs towards a $50M run rate in 2027 by making hiring a competitive edge.
Requirements
- Proven full-cycle recruiting track record, including sourcing, running, and closing hires.
- Experience recruiting across multiple functions, ideally spanning technical/scientific and commercial roles.
- Demonstrated ability to headhunt and creatively reach passive candidates.
- Proven ability to maintain a high hiring bar and push back on suboptimal candidates.
- Demonstrated urgency and responsiveness, treating speed as a competitive advantage.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, capable of engaging diverse candidates.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to operate independently and build structure.
- Mission alignment with improving transparency and integrity in the food system.
Skills
- Full-cycle recruiting
- Sourcing
- Screening
- Process design
- Scheduling
- Offer negotiation
- Candidate closing
- Talent acquisition
- Headhunting
- Industry mapping
- Relationship building
- Sales
- Communication
- Storytelling
- AI utilization
- Employer branding
- Referral programs
- Structured interviewing
- Scorecard development
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- In-office 5 days per week
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Recruiter
About the Company
- Light Labs is building the modern platform for lab testing, starting with consumer goods brands, enabling companies to test more cheaply and quickly, and use lab results to automate regulatory compliance and grow revenue.
- The company believes consumers deserve to know the purity and accuracy of products affecting their families' health, aiming to improve the food system through transparency and informed customers.
- Light Labs provides infrastructure for brands to market and highlight lab results, and automatically comply with regulations.
- The company has raised $30M+ from top VCs and CPG founders.
- Light Labs is working to increase transparency in the food system by addressing issues like toxic ingredients in consumer goods.
- The mission is to bring transparency to the food system, enabling customers to buy products and brands free of toxic ingredients, ultimately creating demand for cleaner products and supply chains.