Talent Sourcer (Contract) Jobs

About Mixbook

Mixbook is an award-winning design platform giving consumers unrivaled creative freedom to design and share one-of-a-kind stories, transforming the lives of more than 6M people. Today, we are the #1 rated photo book service in the US with 26K 5-star reviews and a profitable, growing business. Customers love Mixbook for our powerful and intuitive editor, superb quality, designer themes, and our fanatical customer service.

Founded by two Inc 30 Under 30 entrepreneurs from UC Berkeley California, Mixbook has been featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America, TechCrunch, The Verge, Washington Post, New York Times, and many other global media outlets.

Overview

Mixbook is on a highly ambitious journey to reshape how people see and experience their memories. As a Talent Sourcer, you will be a pivotal part of building the future of Mixbook. You will drive and optimize our company wide sourcing strategies and toolkit. You will identify, contact and generate interest in job opportunities from passive candidates in support of building out our team cross functionally. You are a subject matter expert in the field of sourcing and a superpower to the Talent Acquisition function.

Sourcers at Mixbook are at the forefront of cultivating a robust candidate pipeline. They embody the spirit of curiosity and resourcefulness as they navigate the vast talent landscape, driven by a shared vision of bringing extraordinary individuals into our organization. They employ various sourcing strategies, leveraging their expertise in market insights, competitor analysis, and industry trends to identify and engage top talent.

Mixbook’s (first ever!) Talent Acquisition team is led by Venesa Klein, who chose to join Mixbook full-time after successfully completing various Executive and Leadership searches for our team. Venesa cherishes the Mixbook culture, leads with care, and is always seeking out ways to improve.

The Mixbook culture expects collaborative participation. We are “people-first” in that we seek out team players with a high level of emotional intelligence, appreciation for teamwork, and a dedication to recruiting exceptional talent.

Location

Mixbook is fully remote, however this position will need to work Pacific Standard Time. This includes daily 8:00 AM PST Standup Meetings.

What You’ll Do

The Talent Sourcer (Contractor) role at Mixbook is broader than the typical Sourcing position. This is an opportunity to influence the overall talent acquisition strategy, recruiting operations and help design a delightful and memorable candidate experience. This role is critical to enabling Mixbook to accelerate hiring efforts both in the US and internationally by skillfully implementing innovative and effective sourcing strategies.

• Identify and develop the interest of passive candidates for current job openings and build talent pools across functions. Keep our ATS up to date and ensure there are no duplicate candidate/prospect records Leverage GEM (Sourcing & Reporting tool) and become a power user who can train others on best practices along with helping to define workflows. (Global) Deliver Sourcing activity reports weekly Assist in the development and implementation of Talent Acquisition processes. (Global) Strategize and implement ways to build a consistent pipeline of skilled talent for the US and Moldova. Work with the recruiter and hiring manager to define candidate personas and optimize job descriptions. Contribute and maintain company target list, building out company information to streamline the identification of potential candidates. Be a brand ambassador in every interaction with current and potential candidates.

Your Impact

• You ensure that we are armed with the latest sourcing methods, and tricks for identifying and recruiting candidates as a result of your expertise and efforts.
• Accelerated hiring.
• Your perspective, ideas and passion for and about sourcing add meaningful value to the development of the newly established Talent Acquisition function.
• You have been instrumental in setting up candidate outreach templates and have continued to increase the response rate of passive talent via email, LinkedIn message and phone calls.
• You’ve established trust with the team globally both inside and outside of Talent Acquisition.

What You’ll Need

• 4+ years of experience as a Sourcer focused on recruiting hard to fill roles
• Data focused, experience leveraging data to inform sourcing strategies both external market data and analyzing sourcing outreach data
• Experience interviewing and evaluating talent is a plus
• Track record of creating compelling email content as evidenced by written communication and example outreach emails
• 2+ years of experience focused on Sourcing technical roles
• Experience sourcing for 5 or more different roles simultaneously
• Hands-on experience with sourcing techniques (e.g. recruiting on social platforms, crafting Boolean search strings, tools & resources)
• Ideally, experience sourcing technical talent for international teams.
• Experience Sourcing/Recruiting Full Time Permanent employees

Company Mission

Our mission is to empower people to be creative and connect deeply with the ones they love. Unlike most growth companies, we have invested deeply in culture. Organizational health is central to our long-term strategy – we believe that when we love our people, they will love our customers, and our customers will love our business.

We want people to join us who exude our core values:

• Scrappy (Act like an entrepreneur)
• Craftsmanship (Spirit of excellence)
• Caring (Heart of empathy)