Technical Recruiter - Contract - Remote
About Gro: Gro Intelligence is tackling two of the biggest problems facing the world today: food security and climate change. We understand and quantify the complex interplay between food, weather, trade, agriculture, and macroeconomic conditions in a world upended by climate change, a growing population, and more. The team at Gro has built a platform that allows businesses, non-profits, and governments to better plan for and adapt to these changes. With offices in both Nairobi and New York, Gro has the financial backing of prominent investors such as TPG Growth, Intel Capital, Data Collective, and GGV. Gro is a diverse, intellectually curious team of technologists, scientists, and business professionals united by a shared commitment to build AI that addresses agriculture, food, and our climate on the most fundamental level. What You'll Do:
- Conduct full-cycle recruiting; active sourcing, pre-screening, interviewing, and closing
- Deliver a best in class candidate experience front-to-back
- Work across functions; convey and share information, feedback, and ideas with others clearly and concisely
- Assess and update current recruiting procedures and design new ones as needed, including application processes, onboarding and interview stages
- Research and choose new job advertising options, write adverts and manage postings
- Independently track your metrics to ensure the candidate pipeline is strong at each stage
- Advise hiring managers on interviewing techniques and providing feedback; suggest training as needed
- Support our strategic recruiting initiatives as they come; internships, events, and campus recruiting
What We're Looking For: You are a resourceful recruiter with 3+ years of experience hiring technical talent; sourcing, screening, managing and closing candidates. You're an enthusiastic and collaborative problem-solver who proactively adjusts their priorities to manage a high-volume of roles
- 3+ years full life-cycle technical recruiting experience at an agency or in-house
- Experience in a start-up environment and/or recruiting for start-ups a plus
- Experience in a collaborative, fast-paced environment
- Proven ability to independently manage and drive several processes concurrently
Potential for contract to permanent. Gro was founded in 2014 and currently has offices in Nairobi and New York City. The company was built on diversity and the knowledge that artificial intelligence is only as good as the human intelligence behind it. Gro’s team represents the world it is modeling. At the company, we speak more than 27 languages and we comprise a wide range of experts, from agronomists and crop scientists, to mathematicians, engineers, data scientists, market research analysts, designers, historians, and philosophers. Our culture fosters collaboration between people of extremely different backgrounds that allows us to accomplish things that would otherwise seem impossible. Gro Intelligence is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants regardless of color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, actual or presumed belonging to an ethnic group, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. Apply Job!