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About the Role
This is a hands-on recruiting leadership role focused on building the talent organization at Neurona Therapeutics. You will recruit exceptional talent across a specialized cell therapy organization, acting as a primary recruiting partner to hiring managers. This individual contributor position requires you to personally source, assess, interview, and close candidates, while also strengthening the company's hiring processes.
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting from intake and role definition through sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer, negotiation, and close.
- Personally manage the recruiting process end-to-end.
- Partner closely with hiring managers to understand business needs, define search strategies, and calibrate candidate profiles.
- Provide thoughtful recruiting counsel to hiring managers.
- Own interview scheduling and candidate logistics, including coordinating interview panels and communicating next steps.
- Prepare interview teams and ensure a smooth candidate experience.
- Personally source and engage exceptional talent, including passive candidates in competitive areas.
- Apply strong technical recruiting judgment to candidate evaluation.
- Strengthen the hiring process through structured intake meetings, consistent phone screens, interview guides, scorecards, candidate assessments, and disciplined debriefs.
- Provide clear and objective candidate assessments to hiring managers.
- Build and maintain strong talent pipelines for current and anticipated hiring needs.
- Manage multiple searches with a high degree of independence, maintaining momentum and prioritization.
- Advise hiring managers on market conditions, candidate availability, and compensation expectations.
- Manage the candidate experience from first contact through close.
- Maintain recruiting metrics and reporting for leadership visibility.
- Partner with HR and business leaders on workforce planning and headcount alignment.
- Ensure recruiting practices comply with applicable employment laws and company policies.
- Improve recruiting tools, processes, and practices, including thoughtful use of technology and AI.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
- 10+ years of progressive, full-cycle recruiting experience within biotechnology, biopharmaceuticals, pharmaceuticals, or life sciences.
- Direct experience recruiting for scientific, technical, clinical, or regulated functions.
- Experience recruiting across scientific, technical, clinical, quality, regulatory, manufacturing, and corporate functions.
- Experience recruiting within cell therapy, gene therapy, ATMP, regenerative medicine, or other advanced therapeutic modalities strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to independently manage complex, specialized searches from intake through close.
- Strong recruiting judgment and the ability to evaluate technical experience.
- Experience using structured interviewing, scorecards, candidate assessments, and consistent debrief processes.
- Strong passive sourcing skills and an established network within relevant life science talent markets.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to produce clear, concise, and objective candidate assessments.
- Ability to operate with a high degree of independence, urgency, discretion, and accountability.
- Strong understanding of California and federal employment requirements relevant to recruiting and hiring.
- Comfortable working directly with hiring managers and technical leaders.
- Experience with Paycor or similar ATS/recruiting technology preferred.
Skills
- Full-cycle recruiting
- Talent sourcing
- Candidate assessment
- Interviewing
- Offer negotiation
- Technical recruiting judgment
- Passive candidate engagement
- Structured interviewing
- Scorecard utilization
- Candidate assessment
- Debrief processes
- Passive sourcing
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Workforce planning
- Talent pipeline management
- ATS/recruiting technology utilization
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years of progressive experience
- Associate Director
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience
About the Company
- Neurona Therapeutics is a specialized cell therapy organization.