Workstream (www.workstream.us) is a text recruiting and hiring tool for local businesses, especially quick service restaurants. We are a team from MIT, Y Combinator, Google, Yelp, Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, Lucid, and have raised over $12.5M from Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, CEO Zoom, Jay Z, Joe Montana, Chairman of JetBlue, Charles River Ventures, CEO DoorDash, James Harden, CEO Logitech, Chairman Louis Vuitton (LVMH), Peterson Ventures, GGV Capital, CEO LucidChart, CEO Intercom, and more.
Workstream helps businesses like Jamba, Chick-fil-A, McDonald's, Dunkin', Applebee's, Auntie Anne's, Cinnabon, and more to hire faster with texting / SMS, cutting in half the time to engage, hire and onboard hourly workers, saving you over 10s of hours every week and hiring the right talent faster. We do this by engaging hourly candidates with texting, posting to over 100+ job sites like Indeed, Craigslist, ZipRecruiter, scheduling efficiently via mobile workflows, and seamless onboarding via online signing and more via text.
Skill Sets and Requirements:
We are a rapidly growing company with a team of over 50 people that is looking for our first recruiter on the team. We are growing rapidly, and in the coming weeks and months, are looking to add over software engineers, designers, revenue operations, and more to our team in San Francisco Bay Area.
We are on an important mission to empower local businesses and deskless workers to do better work.
In the past year, over 30 million people has lost their jobs, and with Workstream, we have the opportunity to take part in the 2021 Great Re-hiring to help millions of people to get jobs faster and to help local businesses re-open and re-hire. Here is an article we wrote about it - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/2021-great-rehiring-desmond-lim
This is an opportunity to be part of a fast growing post series A SaaS company that have grew rapidly 3X in team size in the past 12 months, and yet be a key founding member in the US and Bay Area, and have the opportunity to work closely with the founders. Our founding team comes from MIT, Y Combinator, Google, Cornell, Yelp, and more and have many years of experiences in building startups from the ground up.
Here is a video of our co-founder and CEO, Desmond Lim sharing more about Workstream and the role - https://youtu.be/azuzZ2guY_I
You should be an experienced technical recruiter who has 3-5 years of experience in recruiting, people operations and more who is passionate about building an amazing team with great culture. You should also be passionate about helping customers and working closely with customers to learn about their pain points and gaps, and solve for the challenges the local businesses and deskless workers face. Today, we work with hundreds of customers from Chick-fil-A, Jimmy John's, Wingstop, Jamba, IHOP, and more we are helping them to re-open and to re-hire fast.
These are some of the requirements and skillsets of the role that you should have -
- 3 to 5 years of experience in recruiting, people operations and more
- Have a passionate for sourcing, recruiting and finding amazing people
- Humble and Hungry
- Desire to be part of a fast growing company
- Passion to grow in your career rapidly
- Experiences working at a SaaS company and working in recruiting
- Preferences: Have a technical background or understanding of technical recruiting
We really value people with a good culture fit, and here are some of the values that we have -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SHaeKG3IUy_1kE0y8FRnM8PPoEdMS0gmNIsSP3dG-3A/edit
Here's more information on Workstream
Responsibilities:
How to be successful in this role
We are looking for someone that can grow with our team over time. You have a scrappy, hands-on attitude to hit the ground running.
You will succeed if you have a startup mentality of “getting sh*t done”, and you will grow as the company scales. If you are looking for a relaxed 9-5, please back away slowly. If you are insanely bright, hard working, humble, and looking to build a career on the ground floor of an exciting and fast-growing software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, this is for you.
What we offer
- An opportunity to be an early employee at a high-growth SaaS company and work directly with the founding team;
- Full-time employees are offered comprehensive medical benefits;
- A globally-distributed team who deeply cares about each other and shares ideas;
- A belief that productivity is measured by output and not facetime;
- Flexible, schedule with a “use it how you need it” vacation policy - we don’t believe in capping or earning hours. We trust our team to get the job done and rest/recharge as they see fit.
- Help drive the culture of Workstream as we grow!