We're looking for a Talent Lead to join the Runyon team. An action-oriented strategic leader who’s passionate about creating equitable hiring processes and building diverse teams. They will help shape our recruiting, hiring and development initiatives, both strategically and operationally. They will leverage financial analysis, data, bridge networks and use past experiences to design and build more effective hiring and development principles and practices.

A Runyon Talent Lead will be an effective and confident communicator, who understands the importance of creating an environment where all employees are extraordinary at their craft, value the power of diversity and a range of perspectives, and strives to build a dynamic team.

About Runyon

We are a product design and venture studio that helps companies grow.

• We're prototyping-led. We lead with tangible assumptions in the form of prototypes and test them with real stakeholders to validate and refine our strategy and design. Regardless of discipline, we think and communicate in concepts, and use those to move further, faster.
• We're detailed and intentional. We always back up our design decisions with sound reasoning—be it user research, market research, or both. We make things that make sense and that have a clear through line.
• We're fast. We work almost exclusively in sprints, and with lean teams. We need folks who like to run.
• We're collaborative. We jam as a multidisciplinary team of specialists who collectively contribute to the full spectrum of work across user research, strategy and design to arrive at high quality outcomes.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Recruitment

• Develop strategies to source talent from new and existing talent networks (without the reliance of outside recruitment agencies)
• Manage the recruitment process including creating role descriptions, managing the candidate pipeline, sending out offers
  
• Manage and execute the hiring plan in conjunction with detailed financial analysis, ensuring that each contract and full time hire is both financially viable and value-accretive to the overall development of the design community
• Actively work with company leadership to improve interview processes and approaches to better evaluate candidates and constantly improve the candidate experience
  
• Communicate our values and principles to the wider talent community— increasing our profile and inspiring the industry’s best and brightest to join the team
• Attend recruiting events, talent fairs, and community outreach opportunities
• Manage the relationships with recruiting platforms, vendors, and organizations in these spaces

Development

• Build out the onboarding programs and support new hires during their first 100-days
• Discuss career-pathing options with employees and their team leaders
• Coach employees and act as their consultant regarding learning and development activities
• Craft policies and processes that support ongoing performance evaluations and enable career advancement
• Develop employee retention programs and team-building activities

Strategy

• Establish and execute hiring strategies to reach company hiring goals (process, tech stack, brand awareness)
• Create organizational charts and define each position’s responsibilities
• Conduct skills gap analyses and design development and hiring plans to address individual and business needs
• Collect and use data to make informed decision around compensation and benefits

QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years experience as a recruiting leader with a successful track record of identifying and bringing on top talent in the creative, digital, product, and design fields
• An understanding of what our candidate process looks like and where to look across the industry for the most desirable candidates.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks with ease, strategically prioritize them, and analyze opportunities to make recommendations on new approaches.
• Demonstrated self-starter comfortable trying new things, quick to learn new skills, and able to proactively identify new opportunities.
• Familiarity with Human Resource tools (e.g. ATS) and performance management software
• Great communication and time management abilities