Lead Recruiter, Technology Recruiting

Full Time
Boston, MA, USA
3 months ago

This position is a hybrid in-office role that works out of our Boston HQ (Monday-Thursday will be working in office and Friday is WFH). This is not a virtual / remote position.

The Wayfair Talent Acquisition team is strategic to the company's overall success and continued growth. Our recruiters are true business partners and work alongside our business to focus in the areas of strategic sourcing, placement of candidates and process improvements. 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.

What You'll Do

  • 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

What You'll Need

  • 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

About Wayfair Inc.

Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.

No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re a community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate our differences, and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees, customers, community, and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair – and world – for all. Every voice, every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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