Job description
About SecurityScorecard:
SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings, with over 12 million companies continuously rated, operating in 64 countries. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh and funded by world-class investors, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 25,000 organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find and fix cybersecurity risks across their digital footprint.
Headquartered in New York City, our culture has been recognized by Inc Magazine as a “Best Workplace,” by Crain’s NY as a “Best Places to Work in NYC,” and as one of the 10 hottest SaaS startups in New York for two years in a row. Most recently, SecurityScorecard was named to Fast Company’s annual list of theWorld’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023 and to the Achievers 50 Most Engaged Workplaces in 2023 award recognizing “forward-thinking employers for their unwavering commitment to employee engagement.” SecurityScorecard is proud to be funded by world-class investors including Silver Lake Waterman, Moody’s, Sequoia Capital, GV and Riverwood Capital.
About the Team:
The Talent Acquisition team at SSC is a lean, high-performing team that provides exceptional support to our leaders and hiring managers, just like SecurityScorecard does with its customers. Our CEO believes in strategic recruiting, we are not seen as a cost center, we train and direct our hiring managers on search and assessment best practices and we often work on highly impactful C level efforts. We drive solutions, hire high-performers and live our company values (Solutions Focused, Customer-Obsessed, One Scorecard, Resilient, Embody SecurityDNA).
About the Role:
Your goal is to partner with hiring managers and rapidly generate talent pipelines across all levels of roles ranging from C-suite to senior and middle management to specialists, associates and entry-level professionals and across all functional areas ranging from technology to product to sales to customer success to marketing to finance and to professional services. You are extremely organized and reliable and are an air-tight operator, meaning you have limited tactical drops or misses, you are real-time responsive to candidate and hiring manager requests and you keep excellent real-time documentation in our Greenhouse system and Excel talent pipeline trackers. You are incredibly data driven - you drive search using funnel metrics, channel mix and cost per hire benchmarks and are able to pull your own data, independently generate, synthesize and share with us your insights and outcomes. You operate with a security mindset and you are able to handle sensitive and highly confidential company information. You will be tasked to own and run searches, generate talent pipelines and close searches in addition to scheduling and coordinating depending on demand and team capacity. Our team operates as all hands-on deck and that no work is beneath any of us. This is a fully remote role anywhere in the USA (so long as you can work 9am to 5pm ET schedule), however we prefer if you are located in New York Metro or in Austin Texas as we have in person offices there.
Required Qualifications:
Absolutely a must for you to be advanced proficient with Greenhouse recruiting, no exceptions. Yes, you will be quizzed on this and will not be able to fake it. This means you can open and configure jobs, schedule interviews, use assessment integrations and automations, post and tune job posts externally, and you can do it all by yourself without tool training. You will tell us how we should implement Greenhouse best practices of efficient search configuration and execution.
Absolutely a must for you to be advanced proficient with LinkedIn Recruiter (sourcing, InMail automation and Job post optimization), no exceptions. Yes, you will be quizzed on this. You also are likely very skilled in other similar boolean talent sourcing tools such as SeekOut, etc. Super bonus if you are a google search boolean search wizard.
Absolutely a must for you to be advanced proficient with some form of recruiting CRM tool such as Gem, SourceWhale, etc.
Absolutely a must for you to be able to enrich talent profiles such as locating publicly available and reliable contact information, doing market maps, industry and company mapping, networks and referral mining. You can write and edit excellent job descriptions.
Absolutely a must for you to be able to navigate Greenhouse and rapidly resurface and re-engage prior quality candidates.
Absolutely a must for you to keep high quality connections with top talent so they can be ready to re-engage with us in the future when a more appropriate role opens for them.
You are a skilled behavioral interviewer. You approach interviewing with humility, you can train others, and you will be able to train us. Yes, you will be quizzed on this.
Absolutely a must for you to be data driven, your mental map of search lives in funnel metrics, you can’t live without data, you manage by metrics, you create your own metrics, you can synthesize best actions to take and you can independently take action.
You have a continuous improvement mindset and you are highly resilient and reflective. You believe that failures are the best learning opportunities, you embrace feedback as a gift, you love micro learnings and turn them into micro improvements.
You are inquisitive. We expect you will ask us excellent goal-level questions in your interviews.
You can move fast. You type at 60+ words per minute (ideally 70+), are decisive, can multitask. If management asks for you to prioritize posting a new role quickly, it’s done in 30 minutes. If management asks for you to generate a preliminary pipeline for a new role, you have something solid within 48 hours.
Your external messaging, grammar and spelling is excellent.
You smartly leverage AI to make your outcomes better. Be careful - we will know if you are copying and pasting generic AI responses into your application. Don’t say something that you can not defend and make it your own. We do not use AI on your application, one of our humans personally reviews all of your materials.
Bachelor’s degree required, master’s degrees are preferred
5+ years of direct experience recruiting
Compensation:
The contract rate for this position is $35 - $50 per hour.
SecurityScorecard is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and embraces diversity. We believe that our team is strengthened through hiring and retaining employees with diverse backgrounds, skill sets, ideas, and perspectives. We make hiring decisions based on merit and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex or gender (including pregnancy) gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, age, marital, veteran, disability status or any other protected category in accordance with applicable law.
We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, in accordance with applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact [email protected].
Any information you submit to SecurityScorecard as part of your application will be processed in accordance with the Company’s privacy policy and applicable law.
SecurityScorecard does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position. #LI-DNI
