Senior Manager, Sales Talent Acquisition

Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s work marketplace. We serve everyone from one-person startups to over 30% of the Fortune 100 with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential.

We are looking for a motivated Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition to lead our high-performance Sales and Marketing recruiting teams, passionate about attracting and hiring top-performing talent into Upwork. As the Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition, you will build a strategic recruiting function that delivers groundbreaking talent in lockstep with the growing business, and that operates with integrity and expansive talent practices at its core.

Join us and have a direct impact on growing our Sales teams!

Your Responsibilities

• Drive strategy: You will partner with business leadership along with multiple cross-functional teams to drive a recruiting team with clear and achievable goals aligned to the company and business.
• Grow hiring accountability: Align the Sales and Marketing recruiting team’s processes and find growth opportunities by using quantitative and qualitative data. Drive accountability from all partners in our hiring ecosystems so that we’re poised to hire the best people to drive our mission forward.
• Build positive relationships: Working closely with internal partners to ensure we’re crafting sourcing and hiring efforts that address the needs of our partners while scaling for the future of Upwork.
• Coach and mentor the team: Providing guidance, coaching and growth minded opportunities to recruiters in alignment with the overall strategy of the company.
• Continuously experiment and evolve: Use experience, external data and internal data to benchmark our practices and identify emerging trends for us to consider

What it takes to catch our eye

• Experience leading Sales recruiting teams through high growth.
• Success in growing the top of funnel with highly skilled diverse talent with quantifiable results.
• Previous experience leading and coaching recruiters towards company goals.
• Experience with talent acquisition reporting and aligning to business goals.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, adapt quickly to shifting priorities, make timely decisions and drive behavioral change.
• Problem solver with the ability to switch seamlessly between critical thinking and tactical execution within a fast-paced environment.

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