Recruiter

Summary

Join Open Philanthropy's growing Recruiting team as a Round Management Recruiter! You will play a crucial role in managing the hiring process, from project management and candidate evaluation to providing guidance and stakeholder management. This project-driven role involves overseeing multiple hiring rounds simultaneously, ensuring a positive candidate experience. You will also contribute to improving internal hiring systems through strategic projects. While recruiting experience isn't required, strong project management skills, fast-paced work ethic, and excellent communication are essential. Open Philanthropy offers competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and the opportunity to contribute to a mission-driven organization.

Requirements

• Have strong project management skills
• You are highly organized in your own work, and also able to ensure other stakeholders stay on track with what needs to be done
• You’ll obsess over maintaining a clean candidate pipeline and make sure (almost) nothing falls through the cracks
• Like to move fast, get things done, and prioritize aggressively
• We treat all recruiting work as urgent by default
• Enjoy figuring out what people could be good at, and where they could contribute — a task that involves making complex judgments and taking a broad view of the organization’s needs
• Have strong interpersonal and communication skills
• For many candidates, you’ll be “the face of Open Philanthropy,” able to convey what makes the organization unique and why it’s great to work here while also maintaining our high level of desired transparency with candidates
• Enjoy iterating and improving processes
• You’re skilled at breaking down complex workflows and optimizing them for clarity and efficiency
• Are passionate about Open Phil’s mission and excited to support our work, across all of our focus areas
• You don’t need to be a subject matter expert in any of these fields, but will need enough context to interface effectively with stakeholders and candidates within them
• No recruiting experience is required, but we’re looking for candidates with at least a year or two of operations-relevant experience who have successfully managed fast-moving processes
• If you don’t yet have this experience, we suggest completing the general indication of interest for operations roles instead (and noting if you’re interested in working on the Recruiting team specifically)

Responsibilities

• Project management: Determining evaluation steps, planning round timelines, guiding hiring managers through the process, coordinating stakeholders and information streams at key decision points, and tracking the overall progress of the round to make sure nothing (and no one) is falling through the cracks
• Candidate evaluation: Reviewing applications, interviewing candidates, developing or advising on new work tests, and grading work tests or advising on their grading
• Providing guidance: Advising hiring managers on key decisions, maintaining legal compliance, and upholding the overall standards of the hiring process
• Stakeholder management: Interfacing with candidates, responding to questions and requests, and ensuring that all parties are kept up to speed as rounds evolve
• Infrastructure: Setting up and maintaining the back-end systems for each round to manage applicant tracking, work test submissions, etc
• Recruiters also maintain and improve internal hiring systems, with some portion of their time dedicated to ongoing non-hiring projects
• These range from smaller ad-hoc projects (such as creating a one-off report for leadership) to larger, longer-term strategic projects
• Recent and current strategic projects include developing a hiring forecast, updating evaluation steps in response to LLM developments, improving interview templates, implementing new features in our applicant tracking system, and building new dashboards for data analysis
• Your work may also extend to pipeline development tasks, such as promoting roles, reaching out to partners for referrals, contacting leads, conducting introductory calls with prospective candidates, representing Open Philanthropy at events, etc

Preferred Qualifications

We’re especially excited by candidates with existing networks and interests relevant to our talent needs (particularly within the Global Catastrophic Risk or Effective Altruism spheres)

Benefits

• Excellent health insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the US for you and any eligible dependents) and an employer-funded Health Reimbursement Arrangement for certain other personal health expenses
• Dental, vision, and life insurance for you and your family
• Four weeks of PTO recommended per year
• Four months of fully paid family leave
• A generous and flexible expense policy — we encourage staff to expense the ergonomic equipment, software, and other services that they need to stay healthy and productive
• A continual learning policy that encourages staff to spend time on professional development with related expenses covered
• Support for remote work — we’ll cover a remote workspace outside your home if you need one, or connect you with an Open Phil coworking hub in your city