Talent Lead

Your mission as our first Talent Lead at Electricity Maps

You’ll take ownership of all things Talent at Electricity Maps as we enter the next exciting chapters of our growth. Your mission will be to ensure we attract and hire Europe and North America’s best talent, in order for us to scale quickly, but thoughtfully and with great purpose. You’ll also play a leading role in building the foundations of our Talent infrastructure to pave the way for years of ambitious but sustainable growth to come.

What will the role look like?

This is very much a start-up Talent role, as we look to transition from our current recruiting approach (Founder-led, reactive, opportunistic, and reliant on external agencies) towards a more scalable and efficient way of building a world class team for the long term. You’ll be incredibly hands-on, owning talent sourcing, as well as the full recruitment lifecycle. You’ll partner closely with hiring managers and our Executive Team, providing expert advice and talent market insights as we scope our ideal candidate profiles and build out our future headcount plans. You’ll also be our go-to internal expert for candidate referrals, employer branding and the ongoing management (and interation) of our talent technology stack.

We think you will be a great fit for this role if…

• You’ve spent at least 5 years recruiting for high-growth (ideally early stage) businesses, with at least some of that time working as part of an in-house talent team.

• You understand the nuance of hiring for a business before it “hits the bigtime” from an employer brand perspective: you are outbound-focused, creative and tenacious in your recruiting approach.

• You have hired extensively for both technical and non-technical roles, ideally across a range of seniority levels. You will likely have at least a couple of relevant areas of deep subject matter expertise, network and credibility (e.g. Enterprise Sales, Software Engineering, etc.).

• You understand how to build thorough, trusting and successful Hiring Manager partnerships (including with Founders / Senior Executives) - you have proven experience being part of role-scoping discussions and know how to effectively push back when necessary.

• You’re fluent in the modern recruiter’s toolkit, with deep proven experience with the ‘basics’ (LinkedIn Recruiter, creative cross-platform proactive sourcing, and ATS management) and ideally a forward-thinking approach on how to leverage cutting edge Talent Tech.

• You’re comfortable with (at minimum) the basics of technical talent sourcing. You know your way around Github and can work with technical hiring managers to spot key patterns and trends.

• You have used (or are excited to use) organic techniques to engage passive talent… such as hackathons, content creation, meet-ups, community events and more.

If you’re on the fence about applying…
Research shows that men apply to jobs if they meet ~60% of criteria, but women and those in traditionally underrepresented groups tend to apply only if they check all the boxes. If you think you have what it takes but don't meet every single point above, please still get in touch. We'd love to chat and see if you could be a great fit.

About Electricity Maps
Electricity Maps is an API platform providing real-time and predictive electricity signals allowing any device to reduce their cost and emissions by informing them about the best time to consume electricity. This is an exciting opportunity with perfect alignment between business and climate impact.

We’re, for example, used by Google to change the time and location of their data center energy usage, or by Samsung devices in their SmartThings Energy App (read more about our customer stories here). We recently raised €5M to accelerate our growth and are backed by world-class investors with experience from Unity, Zendesk, Datadog, Hugging Face, DocuSign and more.