DiligenceSquared
Talent & People Lead
New York City
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About the role
- You'll personally source candidates, run hiring processes and help close hires across consulting, GTM, engineering and operations.
- This is a hands-on builder role with broad ownership.
- You'll need to be equally comfortable persuading a strong candidate to take a first meeting, helping a founder make a hiring decision and making sure a new teammate has everything they need on day one.
Responsibilities
- Own recruiting from start to finish: Partner with founders and hiring managers to define roles, source candidates, run interviews, coordinate feedback and move offers through to acceptance.
- Find exceptional people: Build targeted candidate pipelines through thoughtful outreach, referrals and relationships. Develop a clear view of where to find strong talent for each function.
- Make hiring more effective: Create clear role scorecards, practical assessments and consistent interview processes that help us make better decisions quickly.
- Deliver a strong candidate experience: Keep candidates informed, prepare interviewers and ensure every interaction reflects the quality and ambition of the business.
- Help close hires: Understand what matters to candidates, communicate the opportunity clearly and partner with founders on offers and negotiations.
- Build excellent onboarding: Coordinate everything from signed offer to first weeks on the team, with clear ownership, thoughtful preparation and regular check-ins.
- Support performance and development: Partner with founders and managers to run practical performance reviews, support regular feedback and turn development priorities into clear actions.
- Excellent communication: You write compelling outreach, build trust with candidates and represent DiligenceSquared credibly.
Requirements
- You have at least five years of recruiting experience, with a strong track record of personally sourcing, assessing and closing exceptional candidates.
- You have owned searches from start to finish and are excited to remain hands-on as we grow.
- A strong recruiting track record:
- You can point to difficult hires you personally delivered, including candidates who were not actively looking.
- Relevant experience: You have at least five years of recruiting experience, with a strong track record of personally sourcing, assessing and closing exceptional candidates.
- A strong recruiting track record: You can point to difficult hires you personally delivered, including candidates who were not actively looking.
Nice to have
- Recruiting at an early-stage or rapidly growing company
- Hiring across consulting, commercial and technical roles
- Familiarity with Ashby, Rippling or similar systems
- Work directly with founders who bought this research at Blackstone and delivered it at BCG
- Have a direct impact on the quality of the team and the company's ability to grow
- Join a small, senior team that enjoys working together, with regular offsites, team dinners and meals together at the office
- High ownership, close founder access and very little bureaucracy
Skills
- Excellent communication:
- Operational discipline:
- Discretion and maturity:
- High initiative:
- Fluency with AI tools:
Benefits
- Own people operations: Manage day-to-day people administration in Rippling, including employee records, payroll, benefits, onboarding and offboarding, with support from Rippling's team and our external advisers.
Company info
- WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR - Relevant experience: You have at least five years of recruiting experience, with a strong track record of personally sourcing, assessing and closing exceptional candidates.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Work with employees and external counsel to coordinate documentation, visa-related processes and important deadlines.
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