Quince
Senior Manager, Recruiting
Palo Alto, CA · Senior · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$185k-$210kDetected 5 days ago
Stakeholder ManagementBrand StrategyLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- The right candidate brings strong recruiting depth, excellent leadership judgment, and the ability to operate both strategically and hands-on in a high-growth, high-bar environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead and scale a team of recruiters, setting clear priorities, and raising the overall bar for recruiting craft.
- Act as a strategic partner to leadership. Work closely with Palo Alto-based leaders to drive business priorities, workforce needs, and deliver against critical hiring goals.
- Drive rigorous search strategy from intake through close. Build and execute effective search plans, including role calibration, market mapping, target company strategy, sourcing strategy, assessment design, and closing plans.
- Improve interviewing operations and hiring process quality. Partner with Recruiting, People, and business leaders to improve interview design, interviewer calibration, and overall process efficiency.
- Develop strong talent intelligence. Build market maps, competitive insights, talent pipelines, and proactive sourcing strategies across key technical domains.
- Lead through expertise, coaching, and example-setting. Model excellent recruiting judgment, stakeholder management, candidate management, and execution discipline for the broader team.
- Joining Quince means being part of a mission-driven team reshaping retail. You will work alongside talented colleagues, tackle meaningful challenges, and contribute to building a more sustainable, accessible future for customers and partners alike.
- You will work alongside talented colleagues, tackle meaningful challenges, and contribute to building a more sustainable, accessible future for customers and partners alike.
- Use data to drive recruiting performance.
Requirements
- Personally drive select critical searches, including senior leadership, and business-critical roles where strong judgment and hands-on execution are required.
- Required:
- 8+ years of recruiting experience, including meaningful experience managing or leading recruiters and/or sourcers. Experience working with G&A, Tech and/or Product teams is ideal.
- Demonstrated ability to act as a strategic talent partner to senior leaders, influencing hiring strategy, role design, prioritization, calibration, and decision-making.
- Experience operating as a player-coach, with the ability to manage a team while personally owning and closing critical searches.
- Strong analytical orientation, with experience using recruiting data to diagnose funnel issues, improve recruiter performance, and drive better hiring outcomes.
- Exceptional communication, judgment, and executive presence, with the ability to build trust quickly with senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
- Experience coaching recruiters and sourcers, raising team standards, and developing stronger recruiting habits, judgment, and execution.
- Preferred
Nice to have
- 8+ years of recruiting experience, including meaningful experience managing or leading recruiters and/or sourcers.
- Experience working with G&A, Tech and/or Product teams is ideal.
- 4+ years of managing and leading recruiting teams.
- Proven success hiring for teams in high-growth, high-bar technology environments.
- Strong understanding of recruiting fundamentals, including sourcing strategy, talent mapping, candidate assessment, interview design, funnel management, and closing.
- Track record of improving recruiting processes, interview operations, stakeholder alignment, and hiring quality.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with shifting priorities, high expectations, and a strong bias for action.
- Experience scaling organizations from early-stage startup environments to late-stage, high-scale growth.
Compensation
- $185,000 - $210,000
- All posted ranges are reflective of base salary and may vary depending upon experience level and location. Bonus and equity may also be provided for eligible roles.
Benefits
- Track funnel health, search velocity, recruiter productivity, candidate conversion, offer acceptance, and hiring outcomes to identify bottlenecks and improve execution.
- Bonus and equity may also be provided for eligible roles.
Company info
- to make really high quality essentials for really low prices, produced fairly and sustainably.
- We believe everyone deserves exceptional craftsmanship and timeless design without the traditional markups.
- Quince is a direct-to-consumer (DTC) model that cuts out middlemen and leverages just-in-time manufacturing to minimize waste and maximize value.
- Quince is a tech company disrupting the retail industry by putting AI, analytics and automation at the center of everything we do.
- Our unwavering commitment to excellence and company values guide our teams and actions:
- Founded in 2018, Quince was built to challenge the idea that nice things have to cost a lot.
- Innovation and transparency ensure value for both customers and partners.
- At Quince, you will be part of a high-performing team that is redefining what quality, value, and sustainability mean in modern retail.
- We are a destination for builders, innovators, and operators to come together and challenge the status quo.
- Our collective ambition is bold.
- We are creating an entirely new category and customer experience - one that democratizes luxury and provides high quality products at radically low prices.
- That mission demands a world-class team committed to excellence.
- If you are motivated by impact, growth, and purpose, you will find a strong sense of belonging at Quince.
- We are seeking a Senior Manager, Recruiting to join our growing team to lead and scale a team of recruiters, based out of our Palo Alto office.
Equal opportunity
- If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application or to perform the essential functions of a role at Quince, please let us know by completing this accommodation form.
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