Minimum qualifications

• Minimum 2+ years technical recruiting experience across the full hiring process from sourcing to the offer stage

• A proven track record of hiring multiple high-volume, high business impact roles simultaneously (ability to manage an average of 10-20 open requisitions at a time for software engineers, product managers, and data scientists a must)

• A sense of urgency to achieve hiring goals within deadlines, without sacrificing candidate quality

• Ability to communicate effectively and effortlessly with candidates and internal stakeholders of all career levels

• Excellent interpersonal skills, resourcefulness, and relentless follow-up

• Technical knowledge of different coding languages/technical stacks/terminology

• Doesn’t mind getting their hands dirty — that is, nothing is beneath you if it closes candidates and helps Hopper to grow

• Strong attention to detail in both written and verbal communications

• Fluency with Lever or other Applicant Tracking Systems, as well as various sourcing platforms (e.g., LinkedIn, Github, Stackoverflow, TripleByte)— you believe in meticulous candidate notes and know that excellent database hygiene leads to accurate reporting

Preferred qualifications

• Excellent negotiating and closing skills

• Exceptional project management and independent problem-solving skills

• Ability to make judgment calls, be flexible and collaborate with others in a fast-paced environment

• Experience evaluating and managing outside recruiting agencies to supplement our own direct hiring efforts

• Basic understanding of equity and other company benefits / perks to effectively answer candidate questions 

• Ability to understand and communicate the business’s current technical challenges to entice candidates who are driven by solving interesting problems

• Startup experience is a huge plus

About the team

The mission of the Virtual Interlining team is to guarantee that Hopper is able to offer the most competitive and robust inventory selection for our customers. We collect 30 billion airfare quotes every day from flight searches happening across the web, with about seven years of historical data, so we can track prices, measure interest, and ultimately detect price trends to know what is the best price for a given route. We now want to leverage this vast data infrastructure to make travel more accessible for our customers by offering a more robust, unique, and cheaper flight inventory selection that users cannot find elsewhere. We aim to do this by building sophisticated flight search optimization algorithms to solve complex travel planning and pricing problems and construct new inventory that improves our pricing and selection for customers.

About the role

Virtual Interlining is a fast-growing product that is expected to be one of the largest drivers of growth for the air business in the next year. The Technical Recruiter for Virtual Interlining will be responsible for defining and executing our recruiting strategy as we scale the team to build industry-changing products. The Technical Recruiter for VI will build out a quality pipeline of candidates who can execute innovative solutions to ensure Hopper’s travellers get the best price, selection, and travelling experience and in the flights market.

Prior experience in technical recruiting is preferred. The strongest candidates will be able to intuitively communicate Hopper’s appeal and frame our benefits to potential candidates.

Responsibilities

• Utilize your sales skills to entice high potential candidates to seek a career at Hopper and shepherd them through our hiring process
• Manage the full cycle recruiting process from sourcing to interviews, offers, negotiation, and close, coordinating closely with hiring managers and both technical and business unit leaders
• Build and modify the hiring process for each role to deliver a great experience for both candidates and hiring managers
• Achieve hiring targets and earn commission upon each successful hire
• Help build the Hopper brand by attending (and proposing new) conferences, meet-ups and events
• Partner with hiring managers to understand hiring needs and ensure the recruiting process meets, if not exceeds, expectations
• Think differently about how to source, connect and engage with passive candidates in the market through unique tools, sites and events
• Analyze key recruitment metrics to identify areas of improvement and provide data-driven recommendations to improve outcomes

Benefits

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and stock options
• Unlimited PTO
• WeWork All Access Pass OR Work-from-home stipend
• Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business
• Open communication with management and company leadership
• Small, dynamic teams = massive impact
• 100% employer paid medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance plans
• Access to a 401k 

More about Hopper

Today, Hopper is best known as a travel app. We're going to do about $1B in sales this year and weathered the COVID storm better than anyone expected. We just raised $170M from Goldman Sachs and Capital One, and inked a deal to be the exclusive travel provider for Capital One Travel.

We owe our success, in large part, to a proprietary suite of data-driven and risk-based financial services that we have developed that complement a customer's trip-purchasing experience. One example is Price Freeze, where our customers are able to purchase a financial option in the app to lock in any price that they see, on any item, for as short as 1 hour or as long as 21 days with Hopper taking the risk on the other side of the trade.

Now we're laying the groundwork for continued expansion in 2021 by adding great people to our team who can help us compete with the travel giants.

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