Senior Technical Recruiter

Who You Are:

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to join our People Operations team.

You are an enthusiastic relationship builder who is excited to make a difference at a high-impact, non-profit organization. Recruiting sits at the heart of our company and is a differentiating factor against our competitors. We are looking for an experienced technical recruiter who is eager to identify strong, diverse talent for a variety of technical positions, including, but not limited to: AI Research Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and frontend and backend software engineers.This position will serve as our internal frontline resource for both hiring managers and candidates to effectively identify matches for Ai2's current and future openings.

If this sounds like an opportunity you just can't pass up, we encourage you to apply.

Who We Are:

We are a small, agile team of HR professionals recruiting and retaining great talent that is committed to changing the world for the better. Our team includes People Operations Business Partners, a People Operations Manager (Total Rewards) and a People Operations Coordinator and a Recruiting Coordinator (reporting to you) reporting up to our Head of People.

Due to the nature of this role, this position will operate relatively independently as an island of excellence to really drive recruiting forward.

Your Next Challenge:

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Lead the recruiting efforts of Ai2 to recruit and retain top-tier technical talent from leading institutions and universities, with an extra emphasis on Research Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers.
• Partner with engineering leadership to identify, scope out, and recruit for highly technical, critical roles across the organization.
• Develop recruiting plans to ensure we adopt a best in class recruiting system that builds candidate pipelines, streamlines loop interviews, and ensures all candidates are valued.Manage the full cycle hiring process from sourcing to offers for multiple requisitions simultaneously.
• Lead Ai2's partnership with third party recruiting agencies as need arises and build strong relationships that serve both parties.
• Use data to solve problems in all areas of recruiting and define success, translate metrics into usable insights for hiring managers and leadership.Develop and engage a high-quality, diverse pipeline of candidates for immediate and future openings by leveraging a variety of sourcing strategies, including social media, internet sourcing, and networking.
• Identify areas of manual procedure and adopt efficiencies to automate processes when possible.
• Improve processes and efficiencies and champion innovative talent acquisition ideas with regards to top of funnel activity and high fidelity throughput.Ensure an impressive candidate experience through top-tier communication and timely feedback, as well as interviewer preparedness and effective interview formatting.Advise and train managers on recruiting best practices to ensure we are equitable and consistent in our hiring processes.
• Represent Ai2 at technical sourcing conferences and serve as the face of the recruiting team.
• Manage and mentor the recruiting coordinator in ways that promote upward growth and strong performance.
• Assist in recruiting non-technical roles as resources allow.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's Degree Human Resources, Communications, Business or similar preferred
• 8 years of successful full-cycle recruiting with at least 3 years of recruiting Research Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers.
• Experience recruiting at a top tier research institute or leading AI organization is preferred
• Experience with grant based hiring is a plus.
• Familiarity and comfort with a data driven environment, ability to use metrics to guide decision making and strategy setting.
• Proven success delivering innovative sourcing and recruiting methods.
• Ability to collaborate effectively - We are a highly collaborative organization.
• Deliver results with agility- We prioritize work that drives long-term value.
• Experience with Greenhouse is a plus.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time.
• The ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.
• The ability to observe details at close range.
• Can work under deadlines.

A Little More About Ai2:

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is a non-profit research institute in Seattle founded by Paul Allen. The core mission of Ai2 is to contribute to humanity through high-impact research in artificial intelligence.

In addition to Ai2's core mission, we also aim to contribute to humanity through our treatment of each member of the Ai2 Team. Some highlights are:

• We are a learning organization - because everything Ai2 does is ground-breaking, we are learning every day. Similarly, through weekly Ai2 Academy lectures, a wide variety of world-class AI experts as guest speakers, and our commitment to your personal on-going education, Ai2 is a place where you will have opportunities to continue learning alongside your coworkers.
• We value diversity - We seek to hire, support, and promote people from all genders, ethnicities, and all levels of experience regardless of age. We particularly encourage applications from women, non-binary individuals, people of color, members of the LGBTQA community, and people with disabilities of any kind.
• We value inclusion - We understand the value that people's individual experiences and perspectives can bring to an organization, and we are building a culture in which all voices are heard, respected and considered.
• We emphasize a healthy work/life balance - we believe our team members are happiest and most productive when their work/life balance is optimized. While we value powerful research results which drive our mission forward, we also value dinner with family, weekend time, and vacation time. We offer generous paid vacation and sick leave as well as family leave.
• We are collaborative and transparent - we consider ourselves a team, all moving with a common purpose. We are quick to cheer our successes, and even quicker to share and jointly problem solve our failures.
• We are in Seattle - and our office is on the water! We have mountains, we have lakes, we have four seasons, we bike to work, we have a vibrant theater scene, and we have so much else. We even have kayaks for you to paddle right outside our front door. We welcome interest from applicants from outside of the United States.
• We are friendly- chances are you will like every one of the 200 (and growing) people who work here. We do.

Ai2 is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. You may view the related Know Your Rights compliance poster and the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision by clicking on their corresponding links.

This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities to the full extent required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you feel you need a reasonable accommodation pursuant to the ADA, you are encouraged to contact us at recruiting@allenai.org.

Benefits:

• Team members and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and an employee assistance program.
• Team members are able to enroll in our voluntary life insurance program, our voluntary accidental death and dismemberment program, our health savings account plan, our healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and our health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
• Team members are able to enroll in our company's 401k plan.
• Team members will receive $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and will also receive $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
• Team members will also receive up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Team members will be able to receive annual bonuses and can participate in the long-term incentive plan.

Note: This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the team members(s) of this position. Team members will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the team member(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at will relationship.