About ElectraSteel

ElectraSteel's vision is to decarbonize our planet and industry to create a positive environmental, societal, and economic impact. While governments and big corporations around the globe are making pledges to a carbon-neutral economy in some distant future, unfortunately, today, we do not have solutions to eliminate more than 50% of carbon emission footprint economically. To address this decarbonization gap, we are mission-focused in developing transformational manufacturing innovations that decarbonize hard-to-abate industrial sectors and sequester gigaton scale carbon dioxide from our planet. Moreover, the entitlement economics of our decarbonization solutions must be cheaper than the incumbent process without any green premium to create market pull and drive mass-scale adoption. We believe we have a challenging yet realistic path forward to realize our vision.

Our first product to market transforms a trillion-dollar steel industry that today consumes 7% of the world's energy using fossil fuels and emits about three gigatons or 10% of carbon dioxide emissions per year. Our novel manufacturing process converts iron ore or contaminated steel scrap to green iron and steel with no carbon emissions while reducing overall cost. It is a paradigm shift of how steel has been made for centuries: from using fossil fuels to intermittent renewables as an energy source, from thermochemical reduction to electrochemical reduction, from using specialized ores to unconventional ores, scrap steel, and waste streams as a feedstock, from integrated to a distributed manufacturing, and from creating global to local jobs. While electrifying steelmaking is an exciting start and our current focus, our Renewable Electricity-to-X technology also enables carbon dioxide sequestration at gigaton-scale and decarbonization of industrial sectors beyond steel that we will disclose in due course.

Our transformational innovations have the potential to create monumental impact, which is why seven sustainability-focused marquee venture-capital investors have backed us to date. These investors vary from the smallest, having an $800 million fund, to the largest with $300 billion assets under management. We are mission-focused and moving fast with a sense of urgency and responsibility to create a sustainable future. We have limited time to improve our planet's health and call upon you to join or support our mission.

Job Description

ElectraSteel is looking for a self-driven individual with values that align with our vision to develop and own the talent acquisition responsibilities for the Company. Our team is our greatest asset, and in this role, your primary responsibility will be to help us continue to build a high-performing team. Specifically, you will focus on identifying and recruiting top talent as well as building our recruiting processes as we grow the Company. Today, we are ~20+ employees and expect to add ~5+ employees per quarter for the foreseeable future. It is an opportunity to help build an extraordinary company ground up.

**Core Responsibilities: **

• Design and manage the entire recruiting life-cycle, including job description generation, sourcing, interview process design, extending offers, and closing candidates
• Coordinate with leaders to forecast department goals and hiring needs
• Develop strategic and tactical plans and uses both traditional and non-traditional resources and techniques to successfully source a diverse pipeline of both active and passive candidates
• Screen qualified applicants, present top candidates, and facilitate candidate interview debriefs and selection process with interview teams
• Build strong hiring manager relationships and communicate consistently and proactively throughout the recruitment process to ensure all participants in the hiring process are updated and well informed
• Solicit feedback regarding the recruiting process to continually improve the experience for all parties
• Create a positive candidate experience (for both the selected and non-selected candidates) throughout the entire recruiting process and enthusiastically advocate for the Company
• Align the candidate recruitment experience to be consistent with our employer brand
• Support the development of marketing collateral to support our employee value proposition and effectively communicate it to potential candidates
• Effectively leverage social media platforms and our website (which is in the process of being revamped) for recruitment and employer branding
• Maintain an understanding of the market and leverage networks to build candidate pipelines
• Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of recruiting experience, with at least 2 years of technical recruiting, primarily various engineering disciplines (mechanical, electrical, systems, chemical, electrochemical)
• Experience with social media recruitment strategies Proficient with Microsoft Office applications including Teams, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Exceptional relationship building and customer service skills
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of professionalism
• Excellent time management skills with strong attention to details
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Critical thinker that is aligned with our values and culture

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in recruiting in hardware and deep-technology industries such as battery, electrolyzers, renewables, and industrial/chemical processes

ElectraSteel currently requires all employees to be immunized against Covid-19; however, an exemption from this requirement may be requested.

It is essential we share with you the three critical pillars of our Company's philosophy, beyond our mission-oriented focus:

• We recruit the best talent with the required functional skills and, equally important, seek those who can critically think, conceptualize complex datasets and systematically develop and test hypotheses in a new setting. Every team member, including our investors, has unique strengths. We interlock those individual strengths to create an ever-evolving mosaic of our collective strength to build a high-performance team. Rather than constrain you to a pre-defined role, we like to build a role around you based on your skills, strengths, and aspirations.
• Our culture creates meaningful relationships. It is built on trust and respect, which are earned, not imposed, and integrity that values transparency and standing up for what you believe in. While everyone is empowered to work autonomously with accountability, your teammates help you succeed. Challenging ourselves and others around us respectfully to make us better is celebrated. Moreover, we are not afraid to fail as we see that as an opportunity to learn. Finally, we value diversity of ideas and people, which is why many of us continue to work together and have become lifelong friends.
• Our disciplined process is rooted in a deep understanding of the market drivers and industry needs. We then seek or develop sustainable, cost-competitive product solutions to meet market needs. Using the theory of constraints mindset, we identify the most critical constraints limiting our goals and resolve those constraints before tackling other issues. To learn fast, our process encourages anticipating problems before discovering them. Our conclusions are deep-rooted in a mechanistic understanding of data or information. Finally, our approach requires courage and patience to lay a solid foundation and create the depth of knowledge needed to scale transformational innovations.

Make no mistake, this is a fast-paced and intense environment, and the path ahead is both uncertain and challenging, so if that sounds scary, this may not be the place for you. Instead, we seek those excited by the challenge, have the required skills and the ability to think critically, belong in our unique culture, and use our disciplined process to help create transformational innovations that will decarbonize our world and industry.

An opportunity to learn, grow, and amplify your impact

Our people are our greatest asset, and we invest in their professional growth and well-being. To support your professional growth, you will learn new skills from electrochemistry to electrochemical engineering, from breaking down a complex problem to building and leading a high-performance team, from discovering to anticipating problems, and finally developing solutions that serve market needs. While we provide everyone resources and mentorship, your desire to learn and eventually your results determine your success, rewards, and professional growth. In addition, to support your well-being, we give you the flexibility when and how long you take time off and, depending on your role, provide flexibility of when, where, and how you work. Moreover, we also believe in investing in your long-term future, as startups are inherently risky. And that is why we provide everyone with company equity and matching contributions to your 401k with 100% vesting, pay 100% of employee health benefits, and depending on the health plan, pay up to 90% of the health benefits of your loved ones and even contribute to your health saving account.

Lastly, as humans, we have an innate desire to do good. Still, individual actions are no longer sufficient to restore the health of our planet. By joining our mission, you have an exciting opportunity to join an extraordinary team to amplify your impact on the world we live in.

ElectraSteel is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

To apply for the above position, send your resume along with a cover letter to: jobs@electrasteel.com