We’re having a good year, thank goodness, and one of our best recruiters is sadly going to reduce her hours as she goes back to graduate school. (I’m happy for her, of course, but also – boo, hiss, etc.) So I’m looking to add to the team.
(Note that while this is being posted today, treat it as a forever post – i.e. I’m always interested in talking to someone great. Also note that while the need right now is pretty senior, I’m always happy to talk to someone newer in his/her career.)
Here’s the job description: please share with your friends and neighbors.
Rooster Park is a boutique technical consulting and staffing firm in Seattle with a carefully-selected and managed list of customers. We do outsourced product development, technical advising, full-time recruiting, and technical staff augmentation for specialized and highly challenging software engineering projects. We work with some of the most forward-thinking companies in Puget Sound, and we very specifically avoid systems integration or “body shop” work. We’re generally recruiting software developers, QA engineers, and program managers. We have clients across technical stacks, but are primarily an open-source shop.
We’re out looking for a senior technical recruiter who knows s/he’s the best of the best and will get things done with their network, their sourcing strategies, and their attitude. We’re growing significantly, and our scaling limit right now is great technical recruiting skills.
We’re looking for a recruiter who deeply understands how to source great local technical talent for both FT and contract work (specifically focusing on open source developers), evaluate technical and culture fit, and help close candidates to join our team. We’re fortunate enough to be able to be choosy – about clients, recruiters, and candidates – and we need the recruiters who find people who didn’t know they were ready for their next job, who have a huge list of engineers in town who know and trust them, and who will increase our credibility while building out our success path. If this is what you’re good at, you will love our client list, you will get excited about finding great engineers, and you will tell stories later about the amazing things we pull off for our clients.
We’re fun to work with, flexible on our schedule, and just really need somebody who knows this community, who is highly organized and has a solid network, and knows how to get things done. We have the passive sources covered (mostly) – it’s getting beyond that with your network that will help.
Compensation is more than fair: we have a few options, including an above-average bonus structure that grows with performance on both the contract and FT side, and a long guarantee while you get your feet under you. If it’s feasible for your work situation, we may attempt a trial period.
Responsibilities
- Recruit and evaluate candidates, mostly through networks and other non-passive sources
- Track progress through standard tools and communicate clearly
- Explain our company’s role in the hiring and contracting process, and sell our value to the candidate
- Advise on improvements to our processes
- Build great relationships with candidates and clients on our behalf
Requirements
- 5+ years as a recruiter for commercial software development companies (not just IT integrators), or 3+ years as a recruiter and 3+ years as a software development professional
- Specific experience recruiting for open-source candidates for small and medium-sized companies – Microsoft experience is great but not enough
- Specific experience as a sourcer for high-value contract candidates – please explain your experience in any response
- The ability to understand and evaluate technical candidates at a reasonable level
- Enough technology understanding to be credible to our candidates and to understand our clients quickly
- Deep network within Seattle
- Clear communication and persuasion skills
Please provide any information you can (resume, LinkedIn profile, etc.). Would prefer an employee for the long-term but am open to independent contractors.