Mechanism Ventures
Company Description
Mechanism is an early-stage venture firm that partners with entrepreneurs to launch and scale ambitious companies.
In our model, we work to identify and validate opportunities before creating every business. We then provide the growth expertise to gain early traction as well as the business support to establish positive unit economics, profitability, and scale.
In addition to investment and strategic guidance, we offer extensive operational support for our startups in critical areas, including Growth, Product, Operations, People, Finance, and Legal. Our in-house experts are at the tops of their fields and are here to provide world-class support and expertise helping our startups get off the ground and scale.
As a team, we have deep expertise across growth marketing, and it’s an important part of our company-wide culture. When it comes to launching and scaling companies, we don’t guess. We engineer.
Our success rate of getting companies profitable is 100%, and our team has a track record of investing in and cofounding multiple companies with $100M+ revenue.
Position Description
We are hiring a Recruiter who will be responsible for recruiting efforts across Mechanism and a broad range of its portfolio companies. We are looking for a full-stack recruiter with a background in startup recruiting who has a proven track record of filling various roles across multiple departments.
You’ll work in a highly collaborative environment, fostering strategic partnerships with hiring managers and portfolio company CEOs. You’ll build out and optimize recruiting processes for efficiency and a best-in-class candidate experience.
This is a great opportunity to dive even deeper into an impactful recruiting career, flexing your recruiting skills across a variety of industries and working with some of the smartest people in the business. You’ll consult with top CEOs and drive impact from the onset. You’ll build and scale interview processes at the earliest stage of a startup.
What You’ll Do
- Actively find and hire awesome people for Mechanism and its portfolio companies. As a full-stack recruiter, you’ll work closely with Founders and hiring managers to define roles, craft job descriptions, and actively outbound-source, vet, and hire talent across all of our rapidly-growing teams.
- Create an efficient interview process and positive candidate experience by setting expectations, preparing interviewers, communicating timely updates, and providing actionable feedback.
- Develop strong partnerships with hiring managers to understand hiring needs, proactively set expectations, and optimize for the best hiring decision.
- Manage the recruiting and people system, Lever, leveraging other job boards and tools as needed.
- Proactively identify and implement Recruiting and People Operations initiatives as needed.
Who You Are
- You are humble. You operate with intellectual honesty and check our egos at the door. You are receptive, adaptable, and we help each other succeed.
- You are fast. You optimize for speed of learning, execution, and growth. You do not get blocked easily.
- You are data-driven. You trust data over intuition. You don’t guess. You engineer.
- You are an overachiever. You partner with CEOs as cofounders and go all in. You know start-up life is not 9-5 and that excites you. You drive our own accountability and take pride in doing great work. A win for a portfolio company is a win for Mechanism.
- You play the long-game. You do the things today that will help us tomorrow. You optimize for the long-term enterprise value (EV) of Mechanism portfolio companies and know significant companies take years to build.
- You are passionate. You actively promote a positive, high-energy culture of high performance, connection, and trust. You believe life is short, so you enjoy it and do what you love.
What You’ll Bring
- 3-4 years of recruiting experience in a high growth startup environment, working with multiple stakeholders across many departments.
- Track record of providing a high-touch, positive candidate experience; we want every candidate (whether hired or not) to have a great experience with Mechanism and PortCo brands.
- Critical thinking skills and an ability make strong recommendations for best recruiting practices.
- Experience hiring for international remote teams.
- Creative sourcing skills within LinkedIn Recruiter and other tooling.
- Ability to create and implement recruiting processes across numerous business models and industries.
- Experience with Lever is a plus.
Location and Time Commitment
We are fully remote – you can work wherever you’re most productive. This role is full-time and will need to overlap with US EST for the majority of the workday. There will likely be occasional travel for in-person strategy sessions with the leadership team and other key stakeholders.
Compensation
Our compensation packages are designed to make this your dream job for the short and long term. Each compensation package is tailored to suit your priorities and can include base, equity (in all of our active portfolio companies and any that are launched during your tenure at Mechanism), and performance bonus based on the success of our portfolio companies.