Global Head of Biz Recruiting

The company gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With the company, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in the US, the company has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.

About the role

As the Global Head of Business Recruiting, you will lead the global team of over 50 recruiters and own hiring for all non-tech functions across the organization globally. The current team has a footprint in the US, Bangalore, Dublin, and Sydney, and drives over 2500 hires annually.

What you will do

• Run the machine: Operational excellence in a high volume environment. This team makes over 2500 hires annually, and hiring demand increases frequently.
• Manage stakeholders: Our internal clients are highly engaged and thirsty for close partnership, and leadership on the topic of best-practice hiring practices.
• Data, reporting, analytics: Drive insights and influence change through the use of data and analytics. Identify problems proactively, sooner, and solve them, through data. Provide transparency on results and be a predictable, reliable function.
• Escalation handling: Have thick skin when escalations happen. Handle escalations quickly, directly, transparently, and thoroughly.
• Global: Balance the competing agendas of the need to drive consistency and scale, globally, with the need for a localized approach and strategy.
• Manage people: Manage across several levels, including managers. Performance manage the team within our existing, metrics-based environment.
• Build: Hire and retain amazing recruiters across the globe.
• Process improvement: Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for scale, or ways we can be better at our jobs. Create solutions for these opportunities, and drive them to completion.
• Engage: Look for ways to keep the team engaged and cohesive.
• TA Leadership: Be a core and critical part of the TA leadership team, and in this capacity, help steer the overall strategy and direction of the function.

What you will need

• Scale: Experience running a similar hiring machine, with similar volume.
• Global: Experience leading global teams. Depth in India, and EMEA hiring would be ideal.
• Foresight: You will be asked to create quotas, forecast team performance, and devise solutions before issues grow to become problems.
• Management: Experience managing managers, and teams of over 50 recruiters.
• Performance management: Experience leading with data and metrics, in an attainment based environment.
• Hands on approach: This person will need to stay close to the action and be very hands on. We take our leadership principle of “Go and See” to heart, and seek out things directly, rather than delegate, and take others' word for it.
• Process improvement: A track record of identifying opportunities to improve, and delivering those improvements.
• Data and analytics: A slight obsession with use of data and analytics, and a history of being very hands on here.
• Adaptability: Ability to thrive in a fast paced, fluid, high pressure environment. High tolerance for change.
• Ability to take feedback: Thick skin relative to others poking in your work because we “challenge each other directly (Rippling Leadership Principle).

Additional Information

The company is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, the company is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accommodations@rippling.com

The company highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a company office), the company considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

\*Commission is not guaranteed

The pay range for this role is:

192,000 - 300,000 USD per year (US)