Director of Recruiting & People Strategy

Accountabilities:

You will own the full recruitment lifecycle while developing scalable people systems that support organizational growth, accountability, and employee engagement. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Talent acquisition strategy: Lead end-to-end recruiting across multiple functions and seniority levels, sourcing candidates through LinkedIn, job boards, freelancer platforms, and employee referrals.
• Candidate evaluation and selection: Screen applications for competency alignment and potential risks, manage structured interviews and group interviews, coordinate test projects, and evaluate candidate submissions.
• Recruitment pipeline management: Maintain strong pipelines for active and recurring roles, manage multiple vacancies simultaneously, and optimize sourcing strategies based on channel performance.
• Employer brand management: Monitor and respond to Glassdoor feedback, encourage employee reviews, identify potential reputation issues, and implement initiatives to strengthen the organization's employer brand.
• Recruitment analytics and reporting: Deliver weekly hiring reports by role and sourcing channel, monitor funnel performance against key performance indicators, and identify opportunities to improve recruitment efficiency.
• People systems development: Design and implement scalable systems for talent engagement, onboarding, retention, and broader people operations.
• Organizational design and workforce planning: Partner with leadership to align organizational structures, staffing capacity, and workforce planning with evolving business objectives.
• Performance and development frameworks: Establish clear performance expectations, evaluation processes, and development pathways that encourage accountability and professional growth.
• Talent experience and retention: Build consistent, professional experiences throughout the talent lifecycle to improve engagement, satisfaction, and retention.
• Workforce insights: Provide leadership with data-driven recommendations that support informed decisions about talent readiness, organizational effectiveness, and workforce priorities.
• External partnerships and compliance: Coordinate with external service providers and help ensure that people systems and contractor-related processes are scalable, compliant, and aligned with applicable employment laws.
• Team leadership: Manage and support a People Operations Specialist while maintaining direct ownership of recruitment outcomes and broader people strategy.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate is a hands-on recruiting leader with strong people operations expertise, a systems-oriented mindset, and experience supporting distributed, contractor-centric teams. The following qualifications are expected:

• Three to five or more years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally in remote-first or e-commerce organizations.
• Five or more years of progressive HR or People Operations experience, including leadership responsibilities.
• A bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field.
• A proven track record of personally closing challenging hires across functions such as marketing, operations, Amazon/e-commerce, product, and leadership.
• Experience designing and conducting structured interviews, group interviews, and candidate test projects.
• Familiarity with recruiting platforms and tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Workable, and OnlineJobs.ph.
• Experience managing hiring workflows and systems through tools such as Notion, ClickUp, or lightweight applicant tracking systems.
• Strong writing and communication skills, including the ability to create compelling job descriptions, personalized outreach, and clear candidate communications.
• Ability to manage five to ten active vacancies simultaneously while maintaining a consistent, high-quality recruitment process.
• Experience monitoring employer reputation, managing online reviews, and responding constructively to candidate or employee feedback.
• Proven ability to build recruitment dashboards, track hiring metrics, and use data to improve sourcing and selection outcomes.
• Direct experience supporting distributed or contractor-centric teams.
• Demonstrated success designing and implementing scalable people systems that support organizational growth and compliance.
• Strong understanding of contractor classification, employment law, and employment-related risk mitigation.
• Strategic thinking, adaptability, strong organizational skills, and the ability to balance hands-on recruiting with longer-term people initiatives.
• Comfort working independently in a fast-paced, remote-first environment and collaborating closely with senior leadership.

Benefits:

• Remote work: Fully remote position with flexible working hours.
• Paid time off: Paid leave and holidays.
• Professional development: Access to learning resources and opportunities to develop new skills.
• Product access: Free access to the organization's educational products.
• Leadership exposure: Regular interaction with senior leadership, including the CEO and CMO.
• Meaningful impact: The opportunity to contribute to a mission focused on helping families, educators, and children through engaging educational resources.
• Collaborative culture: Join a mission-driven team that values trust, creativity, and collaboration.
• Organizational stability: Work with an established, family-founded brand with a decade of experience.