Director of Talent

3 Months ago • 10 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

Ideogram is seeking an experienced Director of Talent to lead recruiting strategy, operations, and execution. This role involves partnering with hiring managers and leadership to attract top talent, managing the candidate journey, and improving recruitment processes. The Director of Talent will identify and engage exceptional candidates through innovative sourcing, mentor recruiters, and ensure data accuracy. Responsibilities include developing diversity and inclusion strategies, promoting the employer brand, and collaborating on processes for transfers, referrals, relocation, and immigration. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of recruiting experience, strong interpersonal and communication skills, proficiency in ATS, and a data-driven mindset.
Must have:
  • 10+ years of recruiting experience
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills
  • Passion for candidate experience
  • Expert ATS proficiency
  • Data-driven mindset
  • Creative sourcing abilities
  • Exceptional organizational skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Adaptable and enthusiastic

Job Details

Ideogram is on a mission to make professional-quality design accessible to everyone. We’re building an AI-native application that helps creative individuals and teams produce high-quality content faster and at a lower cost. We are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI, with a focus on creativity and a high standard for trust and safety. Our headquarters is in downtown Toronto, and we have a growing presence in NYC. Read our Ideogram 3.0 and Canvas blog posts, and try our product at ideogram.ai to get a glimpse of what we're building.

About the Role
At Ideogram, we believe that talent acquisition is one of the most important functions driving our success. We’re seeking an experienced and passionate Director of Talent to guide our recruiting strategy, operations, and execution. You’ll partner closely with hiring managers, team leads, leadership, and other recruiters to attract, engage, and secure the top talent we need to scale our company and product. If you thrive in a dynamic startup environment, love working with people, and are excited to make a lasting impact in AI for creative applications, we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and execute full-cycle staffing plans in close collaboration with hiring managers and teams to achieve outstanding hiring results.

  • Manage the end-to-end candidate journey, ensuring a seamless and positive experience for all candidates.

  • Identify and engage passive and exceptional candidates through innovative sourcing strategies and tools.

  • Facilitate projects and initiatives that improve and scale recruiting processes and outcomes.

  • Mentor and coach recruiters and hiring teams through intake calibration, candidate qualification, offer generation, and closing.

  • Maintain pipeline activity, ensure data accuracy, and share actionable insights with stakeholders.

  • Collaborate with other recruiters to address hiring needs, surges, and cross-functional initiatives.

  • Develop strategies to build a diverse candidate pool and foster an inclusive hiring environment.

  • Partner with Operations to improve processes for internal transfers, referrals, relocation, and immigration.

  • Be an advocate of DEI and bring thoughtful strategies towards building an inclusive environment and a diverse candidate pool.

  • Promote Ideogram’s employer brand and enhance awareness of our unique value proposition.


Education and Experience

  • 10+ years of recruiting experience, ideally in-house at a high-growth tech company.

  • Outstanding interpersonal skills to clearly communicate strategies and updates to leadership and teams.

  • Passion for creating exceptional candidate experiences while balancing team and business needs.

  • Expert-level proficiency in Ashby or other leading Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).

  • Data-driven mindset, leveraging insights to guide hiring strategies and decisions.

  • Proven ability to develop creative approaches to sourcing and building talent pipelines.

  • Exceptional organizational skills with strong attention to detail.

  • Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach to working with others in a dynamic environment.

  • Adaptable, enthusiastic, and fun to work with!

Founding Team

Our founding team consists of world-renowned AI experts including Mohammad Norouzi, Jonathan Ho, William Chan, and Chitwan Saharia. This team has previously led transformative AI projects at Google Brain, UC Berkeley, CMU, and the University of Toronto. Our fundamental work in AI includes: Imagen: Google’s text-to-image system, Imagen Video for video synthesis, Denoising Diffusion Models, which is the foundation of the recent generative media transformation.

Company Culture

We're a single flat team that transcends engineering, research, product, and operation roles. Everyone is willing to do whatever is necessary to make our company and customers successful. We believe that a small, dedicated team with a collaborative culture can move faster and build better and more coherent products than large hierarchical organizations. At Ideogram, we provide mentorship and support to help our employees grow with the company and achieve their ambitious career goals.

Ideogram is committed to welcoming everyone, regardless of gender identity, orientation, or expression. Our mission is to remove exclusivity and barriers and encourage new thinking and perceptions, in a space of belonging. It is not about race, gender, or age, it is about the people.

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