Manage full-cycle recruiting for a life sciences company by partnering with hiring managers, developing recruiting strategies, sourcing candidates, building pipelines, managing candidate relationships, and guiding candidates through accepted offers. The recruiter will use Lever to track hiring progress, become knowledgeable about Karius’s technology and culture, and deliver a strong candidate experience. This is a three-month contract role with no travel required.
About Karius
Karius is a venture-backed life science company focused on transforming the way infectious diseases are diagnosed. Combining Next-Generation Sequencing and proprietary data analysis, Karius Spectrum can identify over 1,000 pathogens from a single blood sample and Karius Focus BAL can identify 500 pathogens with a BAL fluid sample, both tests providing a result with typical turnaround time in one business day. By unlocking the information present in microbial cell-free DNA, we're helping doctors quickly solve their most challenging cases, with a future vision of accelerating clinical trials, discovering new microbes, and reducing patient suffering worldwide.
Position Summary
As a member of our Talent Acquisition team, you’ll manage the full recruiting life cycle, designing and carrying out sourcing strategies that build strong teams across the organization. You’ll act as the link between the business and Talent Acquisition, finding exceptional talent through the relationships you build and the creative sourcing methods your experience brings. As a representative of Human Resources, you’ll make sure every candidate has a best-in-class experience with us.
*This is a contract position for 3 months.
Why Should You Join?
Karius aims to conquer infectious diseases through innovations around genomic sequencing and machine learning. The company’s platform is already delivering unprecedented insights into the microbial landscape, providing clinicians with a comprehensive test capable of identifying more than a thousand pathogens directly from blood, and helping industry accelerate the development of therapeutic solutions. The Karius test we provide today is one of the most advanced solutions available to physicians who aim to deliver better care to many otherwise ineffectively treated patients. Our test is the result of some incredible work done by our scientists, statisticians, engineers, and physicians, all driven by the same mission. You, as part of the Karius team, will be able to see how directly your work has a life-changing impact on people, and at scale.
Reports to: Senior Director, Talent Acquisition
Location: Redwood City, CA (Hybrid) or Remote (United States)
*If remote, outside of California, you will need to support West Coast work hours.
Responsibilities
• Partner with hiring managers to understand their hiring needs and build recruiting plans. Advise them on process, best practices and strategy for finding top talent.
• Source top-tier candidates, and build and maintain relationships with them through every stage, from first contact to accepted offer.
• Build a large, high-quality candidate pipeline under tight timelines.
• Become an expert on Karius’s technology, culture, future products and their applications.
• Use Lever, our applicant tracking system, to track and manage each candidate’s progress through the hiring process.
• Source top-tier candidates, and build and maintain relationships with them through every stage, from first contact to accepted offer.
• Build a large, high-quality candidate pipeline under tight timelines.
• Become an expert on Karius’s technology, culture, future products and their applications.
• Use Lever, our applicant tracking system, to track and manage each candidate’s progress through the hiring process.
Travel: No travel required.
Physical Requirements
Subject to extended periods of sitting and/or standing, and vision to monitor and moderate noise levels.
Requirements
• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally on an in-house talent acquisition team. Startup experience is a plus. Experience recruiting in a regulated industry such as biotech or medical devices.
• A bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Strong relationship-building skills that make you a natural partner to hiring managers.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, and a passion for recruiting in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent organization, attention to detail, and follow-through.
• A positive, team-first attitude. We’re a growing company, so you’ll need to be comfortable wearing many hats.
• A passion for purpose-driven work and excitement about Karius’s mission.
• Strong relationship-building skills that make you a natural partner to hiring managers.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, and a passion for recruiting in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent organization, attention to detail, and follow-through.
• A positive, team-first attitude. We’re a growing company, so you’ll need to be comfortable wearing many hats.
• A passion for purpose-driven work and excitement about Karius’s mission.
Disclaimer
The above job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Responsibilities and duties may change or be adjusted to meet the needs of the company, and additional duties may be assigned as necessary. The job description is subject to change at any time at the discretion of Karius.
At Karius, we value a diverse and inclusive workplace and provide equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees and are committed to honor and invest in the full diversity of people, in our hiring, recruiting and development of employees across the Company. All qualified applicants for employment are encouraged to apply and will be considered without regard to an individual’s race, color, sex, gender identity and gender expression (including transgender individuals who are transitioning, have transitioned, or are perceived to be transitioning to the gender with which they identify), religion, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws. If you are unable to submit your application due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected] and we will accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities.
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