Head of Talent Acquisition (USA)

Smartcat was founded in 2016 to help global enterprises create and manage their multilingual content. Today, Smartcat is the essential language AI platform for the global enterprise. 

Our client-tailored language AI turns content in any format into any language, from documents to videos to complex websites and software, making global operations simple for any corporate team. It also allows any user to create new content by tapping into a multilingual enterprise library. 

More than 1,000 global companies including 25% of the Fortune 500 trust Smartcat to communicate their innovations and ideas all over the world.

Smartcat’s vision is to realise a world where there is equal access to innovations and ideas. 

Smartcat is backed by Matrix Partners, FJ Labs, and other leading VC firms focusing on SaaS, marketplaces and AI. You might recognize names like HubSpot, Zendesk, Uber, Stripe, RigUp, and Quora in their portfolios. Despite the economic recession, Smartcat is growing at 150% YoY. It's well-funded and capital efficient, providing a unique combination of a hyper-growth environment with downside protection and the ability to think and plan long-term. 

Mission

We are looking for Head of Talent Acquisition who will ensure filling our job positions with the best fit candidates in a timely manner. We're results-oriented, and we don't take this lightly: you must have a strong appetite for success, want to grow and learn fast and motivate other team members to grow with you. 

Outcomes:

1. Develop a hiring strategy in alignment with the executive team by analyzing and understanding the organization's objectives, such as expansion plans, revenue targets, or product launches, and how these objectives are tied to talent acquisition.
2. Improve recruitment team capacity planning, tooling, and processes to achieve 100% of team hires timely, considering attrition.
3. Increase hiring quality by improving the brand and raising the bar to hire A-players in line with most competitive remote companies.
4. Personally filling at least 5 senior job positions per quarter: Leaders (Director, Head, VP level), Senior Account Executives, and Customer Success Managers.

 Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience leading a team in a fast-growing multinational IT business.
• 8+ years of hiring experience.
• Experience building and improving the recruiting process. 
• Extensive background in fulfilling roles within Sales and Marketing.
• Proficiency in sourcing: X-Ray search, Linkedin, Facebook, Telegram, job boards. 
• Proficiency in cold outreach: great writing and verbal communication skills.
• A data-driven approach. Ability to justify decisions using concrete metrics.
• Integrity and full commitment.
• Growth mindset.
• Readiness to work in a highly intense startup environment requiring extreme focus, a strong sense of ownership, and persistence to breakthrough.
• Openness to constructive feedback and the opinions and ideas of others.

Why joining Smartcat might be your best move so far

• Innovating the $50 Billion-old industry
  Smartcat’s innovative business model taps into this $50B language translation industry with a platform allowing enterprise end users to stop using traditional outsourcing and enjoy easy-to-use AI-powered SaaS that delivers immediate high-quality results at a fraction of the cost.
• High-impact role enabling innovation and inclusion in organisations
  You will enjoy building with us. You will drive changes in how an old-fashioned global language industry operates while improving how hundreds of thousands of people work and millions of people exchange knowledge and ideas worldwide. 
• A fully remote team of high-performers
  We are a global team of 170+ enthusiastic people. We have been fully remote since 2020, with some locations populated with more “Smartcatters” than others, such as Boston, NYC, SF, the Bay Area, London, Lisbon, and Yerevan.  We strive to grow aggressively, but we also preserve our high performance, engagement, and open feedback culture. As diverse as we are, we love working and having fun together, and we’re sure you’ll love working with us too.
• Join the rocketship to scale up 10x and beyond together
  We are looking for someone who will become a part of the team and play a critical role in the most exciting part of our journey from a post-Series B startup to a company exceeding $100M in ARR and $1B in valuation. Our journey isn’t for the faint of heart. We are growing 150% YoY thanks to the strong product-market fit and the culture of a high sense of urgency.   
• Celebrating diversity
  We welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work. We are committed to diversity and inclusion & prohibit discrimination and harassment.