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About the Role
This role owns Kaizen's talent acquisition strategy, responsible for scaling the team and hiring top talent across all functions. You will build and manage the recruiting engine, own the hiring bar, and personally close senior and executive searches, driving the company's growth and shaping its future.
Responsibilities
- Build and run Kaizen's recruiting engine, including process, pipeline, and reporting.
- Own and raise the hiring bar across the company by attracting and securing top talent.
- Manage concurrent searches for go-to-market, operations, engineering, and design roles, personally closing senior and executive positions.
- Oversee the recruiting stack (Ashby, Juicebox, LinkedIn Recruiter) and provide leadership with pipeline visibility.
- Drive automation of coordination tasks to allow the team to focus on candidates.
- Manage the existing team of three recruiters and hire additional approved recruiters.
- Set the standard for excellent recruiting and invest in the career growth of the team.
- Manage the agency roster, evaluating partners, negotiating terms, and determining when to engage their services.
- Establish Kaizen's employer brand in the NYC and DC markets.
- Partner with the COO and founding team on headcount planning and talent strategy for company growth.
Requirements
- Proven experience scaling a talent function through significant headcount growth, with demonstrable results.
- Experience operating as a trusted peer to company founders, demonstrating direct communication and ownership.
- Ability to articulate a compelling reason for candidates to join Kaizen and effectively sell the federal opportunity.
- Established relationships and deep understanding of the NYC engineering community.
- Experience managing a recruiting team, including recruiters, coordinators, and sourcers, with a focus on career development.
- Experience managing concurrent searches across engineering and go-to-market, from individual contributor to executive levels, including challenging roles.
- Proficiency in using AI and automation in recruiting workflows.
- Experience configuring an Applicant Tracking System (ATS), ideally Ashby.
Skills
- Talent Acquisition
- Recruiting Engine Management
- Hiring Bar Management
- Executive Search
- Go-to-Market Recruiting
- Engineering Recruiting
- Operations Recruiting
- Design Recruiting
- ATS Configuration
- Employer Branding
- Headcount Planning
- Talent Strategy
- AI in Recruiting
- Automation in Recruiting
- Team Management
- Candidate Sourcing
- Candidate Closing
- Agency Management
- Negotiation
Location
- New York City
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Executive
Benefits
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
- $100,000 in fully paid life insurance
- FSA and Dependent Care FSA
- One Medical membership
- Fertility and family-building support through Carrot
- 401(k) with a 2% company match
- 16 weeks fully paid parental leave for birthing parents
- 10 weeks fully paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
- Unlimited PTO with a two-week minimum
- Company closed for all federal holidays
- Company-wide winter break
- Company offsites
- Up to $750 one-time home office setup stipend (NYC-based)
- $500 home office setup stipend (remote)
- $50/month commuter benefit
- Expensed lunch while in the office
- Company-provided laptop
- Fully covered gym membership (NYC)
- $100/month gym or physical fitness reimbursement (remote)
- $100/month utility stipend
- $500/year professional development stipend
- $250/year recreation stipend
- $300/quarter pet care stipend
About the Company
- Kaizen aims to strengthen trust in American public services by building modern, AI-native software for local, state, and federal agencies.
- The company started in outdoor recreation and is expanding to become the software layer for accessing all government services.
- Kaizen's platform currently reaches 55 million Americans across over 50 agencies, with a goal to reach 100 million residents.
- Founded in 2022 and based in New York City, Kaizen has raised $35 million from prominent investors.
- The company believes that beautifully designed software is essential for government services and rebuilding public trust.