Creative Recruiter
Who We Are:
Golden Hippo is an employee-owned, vertically-integrated, highly profitable direct-to-consumer marketer of health, beauty, and pet care brands that collectively generate $1 billion of revenue annually. Our employees are passionate about our mission to create best-in-class products across broadly appealing categories - to help people live their healthiest, happiest lives.
Our A-players are results-driven creative thinkers who like to move fast, get the job done, and have fun doing it. If you love to roll up your sleeves, take on exciting new challenges every day, and drive massive growth, we want to hear from you!
Why Golden Hippo:
Here at Golden Hippo, we work to develop best-in-class products, revolutionary marketing campaigns, and glowing customer experiences. We pride ourselves on our award-winning culture and incredibly diverse workforce. We intentionally strive to cultivate, create, and celebrate a rich, vibrant and inclusive culture of belonging where our employees feel respected and empowered. We also offer:
- Award-winning culture...Winner of Comparably's Best Company Culture 2021, Best Company Perks & Benefits, Best Career Growth 2021, Best Leadership Teams 2021, Best Marketing Team 2021 and Best Places to Work in Los Angeles 2021! Click here to view more.
- Competitive salary & bonus opportunities
- Flexible, remote work arrangements available for most positions
- Highly valuable employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
- Employer-paid benefits (medical, dental, vision, life, parental leave, and more)
- Generous matching 401K plan
- UNLIMITED room for growth and results-based pay increases
- Highly interactive, challenging work with a talented, diverse, passionate team
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities such as manager and employee development classes, Tuition Assistance Program, book club, film club, webinars, mentorship program, Hippo Talks, and much more
- Casual, "no dress code" atmosphere
- In-office gym & fitness classes, fully-stocked kitchen, plus regular yoga, meditation breaks, happy hours, and events
The Role:
Golden Hippo is currently looking for a Creative Recruiter who will be responsible for will creating and executing talent acquisition strategies for copywriting, video production, and brand management roles. This role will not only partner with but also be held accountable directly by leaders of creative teams. This role will be tasked with developing a deep understanding of each relevant creative discipline by deep-diving into the departments' projects, goals, and training materials, to create and implement sustainable recruiting programs that address immediate and long term staffing goals.
What Your Day-to-Day Will Look Like:
- Manage recruiting campaigns for creative roles as directed by SVP, Brand Management/Copy/Video
- Develop a strong understanding of the nuances of various roles and "what good looks like" as they apply to both the creative teams & the overall Business
- Accurately assess candidate application collateral such as writing samples and video reels, by developing a strong understanding of how creative works for the Business
- Partner with Talent Acquisition team to ensure alignment & compliance to company recruitment policies & procedures
- Responsible for full life cycle recruiting - all hiring manager communication, job description preparation/posting, sourcing, submit candidates, relationship management, issue resolution, setting process/procedural expectations, coordinating new hire setup/logistics, etc.
- Develop sourcing strategies that maximize the qualified candidate pool
- Research, contact, and develop relationships with local universities, community, and professional groups to further promote the company
- Assist with the onboarding of new hires & maintaining or updating trial programs where applicable
- Manage/maintain recruiting data and metrics for hiring managers and senior leadership team
- Provide weekly recruiting reporting metrics to VP, Talent Acquisition
- Assist with developing other sourcing strategies that maximize the qualified candidate pool
The Best Candidates Will Have:
- 3-5 years full life cycle recruiting experience, preferably with creative talent OR 3-5 years experience in a creative marketing role
- Excellent attention to detail and follow-up skills a must
- Keen ability to identify and recruit passive job seekers
- Experience recruiting in a high-volume environment
- Creative and forward-thinking approach to candidate sourcing and job promotion
- Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices and procedures within Recruiting
- Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Highly resourceful, creative, collaborative, motivated and driven
- Ability to effectively prioritize workload and work in a fast paced, ever-changing culture
- Passionate about relationship-based recruiting
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Comfortable with remote management
- MS Office (MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- Advanced knowledge of Internet, especially search functionality on job sites
- Experience with Applicant Tracking Systems
Equal Employment Opportunity
Golden Hippo strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation.
We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, for applicants in Los Angeles, California, and consistent with applicable laws in other areas.
Hiring Practices
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Golden Hippo recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Golden Hippo may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.