About Whisker Labs:

Whisker Labs mission is to prevent fires, protect families and homes, and save lives. We are passionate about developing smarter solutions to hard problems, leveraging expertise in signal processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. We’re leading the next wave in smart home technology and fire prevention with Ting, an intelligent sensor that monitors a home’s electrical network to detect electrical hazards that often lead to the most devastating and catastrophic fires. While on the job preventing home fires, Ting serves an expanding role to monitor the electric utility grid, prevent grid caused wildfires and increase grid resilience to support the adoption of renewable energy to support our planet. For more information, please visit tingfire.com.

About the Role

As a rapidly growing small business, we all wear several hats and are focused on execution and embrace our unifying characteristics: we have a critical mission, we have a front-line obsession, and we execute with an owner’s mindset. This role is no different.

In this full-time role, the responsibilities include identifying current and future hiring needs, advertising job openings online, designing employee referral programs, establishing relationships with universities that will be sources of talent, and directly recruiting and hiring team members critical to the success of our company. To be successful in this role, you must have experience in sourcing, interviewing, evaluating, and hiring candidates. You need to have a vibrant and outgoing personality with fantastic communication and marketing skills to market the benefits of talented candidates joining our team to help prevent fires, protect homes and families and save lives. We need the best of the best to achieve our mission. You should have experience in IT and engineering recruiting as engineers will be the majority of hires to our team, but we will also build out diverse functions across the company. Ultimately, you will help us deliver on our mission and promise and build a strong brand to ensure we provide a positive candidate experience.

If you envision yourself rolling up your sleeves and contributing to this type of mission and team, read on.

The Internal Recruiter will report to the Chief Financial Offer. You’ll be joining a small and experienced team of business leaders, software engineers, and data scientists seeking to make the world a safer and more efficient place. Come join us!

**Job Duties **

• Collaborate with hiring managers to write job ads for current openings
• Advertise job openings on careers pages, job boards and social networks (e.g. LinkedIn)
• Establish relationships with universities for recruitment of college graduates
• Source candidates through online and other channels (e.g. professional networks and portfolio sites)
• Screen resumes and applications and update candidates on hiring processes
• Interview candidates during various hiring stages, including phone, first-round and second-round interviews
• Report to hiring managers on the status of open positions
• Evaluate candidates based on their interview and assignment performance
• Determine qualification criteria for each position with hiring manager
• Analyze turnover and retention rates to forecast hiring needs
• Update job descriptions (e.g. add tasks or modify requirements)
• Answer candidates’ queries regarding the application process
• Provide interview feedback, when necessary and appropriate
• Participate in job fairs to boost company’s reputation
• Help new hires onboard

Required Skills

• Proven work experience as an Internal Recruiter or Recruiter in IT Recruiter or similar role
• Solid understanding of full-cycle recruiting
• Experience using various interview formats (e.g. phone, structured, group)
• Ability to organize skills assessment centers (e.g. job simulation activities, work samples, psychometric and IQ/EQ tests)
• Strong marketing and sales skills to communicate effectively to candidates and close on hiring strong candidates to join our team.
• Familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems and resume databases
• Good knowledge of labor legislation
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Qualifications

• BS or BA degree
• 2+ years of Recruiter experience
• Travel as needed
• US Citizen

This position offers a competitive salary, bonus structure and equity.

Whisker Labs offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical insurance; dental insurance; Flexible Spending Accounts; eight (8) company paid holidays; two (2) floating holidays; 401K Plan with company match; disability insurance; tuition assistance and up to fifteen days of Paid Time Off (PTO) in the first year which is accrued on a per pay period basis (with an increase of one day per year up to 25 days).