Recruiting Coordinator

Indigo is a company dedicated to harnessing nature to help farmers sustainably feed the planet. With a vision of creating a world where farming is an economically desirable and accessible profession, Indigo works alongside its growers to apply natural approaches, conserve resources for future generations, and grow healthy food for all. Utilizing beneficial plant microbes to improve crop health and productivity, Indigo’s portfolio is focused on cotton, wheat, barley, corn, soybeans, and rice. The company, founded by Flagship Pioneering, is headquartered in Boston, MA, with additional offices in Memphis, TN, Research Triangle Park, NC, Sydney, Australia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and São Paulo, Brazil.

Our Indigo People team may be known in other organizations as “HR,” but we are not your typical HR team. Our mission is to build a best in class team across Indigo and to create a healthy and motivating place to work. We operate as a modern, strategic, efficient team, partnering with leaders across the organization to attract and develop A players, while creating and sustaining a culture built on innovation and collaboration.

The role of the Recruiting Coordinator is a key part of the People team, partnering with department leaders and hiring managers to deliver on the organizational elements of Indigo’s goal of finding and attracting A players. This role will be based in Boston and will require exceptional people skills, contagious enthusiasm for Indigo’s mission, a proven ability to execute, outstanding organizational skills, and flexibility and efficiency to work in a fast-paced environment. 

Responsibilities:

Supports hiring managers and recruiters with all scheduling needs

• Seamlessly schedules scorecard session, pre-meetings, debrief meetings, and interview schedules within 48 hours of request and communicates to all relevant stakeholders
• Demonstrates expertise with our Applicant Tracking System
• Has strong understanding of who to ask and how to resolve scheduling conflicts/difficulties with proactive recommendations
• Become an expert on navigating within the organization and working cross functionally with different site locations
• Has strong understanding of scorecard sessions and can provide leverage to recruiters to write scorecards, when needed
• Collaborates with all Administrative Assistants to ensure a smooth process for all involved stakeholders

Understands and becomes an expert on Indigo’s recruiting process

• Be able to understand all stages of and reasoning behind ghSMART hiring method
• Learns who owns each step of the hiring process
• Contribute to new ideas for improving the recruiting process

Communicates with candidates in a professional and timely manner, acting as the “face of Indigo” throughout the candidate’s experience

• Emails with candidates to coordinate all interview logistics with little to no mistakes
• Responds to candidate emails within 24 hours of receipt
• Greets candidates for on-site interviews and manages all logistical aspects of the interview day (dialing video calls, ordering lunch, etc.), ensuring that candidates have a great experience interviewing with Indigo, measured by candidate experience feedback surveys
• Represents Indigo’s core values and a strong sense of enthusiasm and positivity in all candidate interactions

Demonstrates flexibility, providing additional leverage to recruiting team as needed

• Sources candidates when needed
• Writes scorecards and job descriptions as needed
• Posts new jobs on Indigo’s career website and outside job boards
• Assists with event planning and other ad-hoc projects

Key Competencies:

• Passion for people; genuinely interested in and curious about what motivates and excites people
• Extremely organized, with a natural affinity towards process and getting things done
• Good with details; doesn’t let things fall through the cracks and remembers to follow through
• Customer service oriented
• Strong prioritization skills; able to handle a large volume of tasks
• Positive attitude; approaches situations with optimism, enthusiasm, and energy
• Trustworthy and loyal
• Outstanding communication skills; comfortable interacting with people at all levels and in all types of roles
• Proactive; not afraid to follow up with people multiple times or overcommunicate
• Works quickly and thrives in a fast-paced environment
• Comfortable with ambiguity; able to think on their feet, take initiative when the path is not clear
• Able to remain calm and composed with ambiguity
• Empathetic, relates easily to others
• Poised and professional; able to be the “face of Indigo”
• Manages processes well and can influence others in a thoughtful way to adhere with processes
• Collaborative, excellent team player
• Flexible, willing to participate in many different projects with changing needs

Key Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 1+ year(s) relevant work experience required
• Proven success in fast-paced support or administrative capacity
• Outlook experience, preferred
• Calendar management experience strongly preferred
• Recruiting experience or understanding preferred