Senior Associate, Talent Acquisition

Vestwell is the financial technology company powering the new savings economy. The New York City-based fintech platform redefines how people save for the critical aspects of life across retirement, education, and healthcare savings needs. Today, Vestwell enables over 350,000 businesses and nearly 1.5 Million active savers, with over $30 billion in assets saved across all 50 United States. 

Vestwell offers a range of products, including workplace-delivered retirement plans, employer-offered student loan repayment benefits, and various savings accounts for education, emergencies, and individuals with disabilities.

Vestwell's platform serves a diverse clientele, including financial advisers, employers, third-party administrators, financial institutions, payroll providers, government agencies, and individual savers. To learn more, visit vestwell.com

Who Are We Looking For?

We are seeking a Senior Associate, Talent Acquisition to help Vestwell expand by hiring top-notch salespeople. In this role, you will assist management to determine recruitment needs and develop hiring strategies. Your duties will include advertising positions, screening candidates, and scheduling and preparing for interviews. You may also be required to maintain employee databases like Rippling (our HRIS) or Greenhouse (our ATS) and assist managers and hiring teams in making objective hiring decisions.

To ensure success, the Senior Associate, Talent Acquisition should have a demonstrable track record in hiring talented salespeople. Outstanding sales recruiters study metrics to track recruitment successes and identify opportunities for improvement in the hiring process.

What Will You Be Doing?

Day-to-day you will be expected to:

• Evaluating company products and services towards creating an accurate salesperson profile.
• Developing and implementing a hiring strategy in consultation with hiring managers.
• Determining the audience, method, and reach of the hiring process.
• Designing eye catching recruitment marketing campaigns.
• Advertising sales jobs via suitable 

Requirements

The Necessities:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a full cycle recruiting role, ideally at a FinTech or staffing agency
• Experience working with external clients with competing priorities and deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal communication and time management skills
• Strong social aptitude and ability to build relationships across functions and levels
• Industry knowledge to be able to talk to job prospects and understand qualifications
• Ability to quickly adapt to and learn new tools as needed; proactive in learning independently
• Hunger and drive to grow into a talent acquisition expert for Vestwell
• Proficient in ATS platforms (Greenhouse preferred) and candidate sourcing platforms (LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut, etc.)

The Extras

• Internal and external negotiation skills
• Previous work experience in sales, research, operations, customer service, information technology, administration, schedule coordination, or other related jobs
• Experience with project and program management
• Experience working in startup and or FinTech environment(s)

This role will be based in our NYC HQ and will be part of Vestwell's hybrid in-office operation.

The expected base salary range for this position is $65K - $80K base. This position is eligible to participate in the Company Bonus Pool and is eligible to receive new hire equity in the Company. Please note that salary bands are based on New York and other similar metro areas and may differ based on where the role is ultimately hired.

OUR BENEFITS

We’re an innovative, high-growth company, with lots of exciting milestones ahead. We value health and wellness at Vestwell and in addition to a dedicated Employee Wellbeing Committee, we offer competitive health coverage and generous vacation offering. We have adopted a hybrid office policy, but all employees are welcome at our bright, comfortable office with many workspace options in our Midtown Manhattan office, so everyone has a setting that is the most productive for them. Oh, and naturally we have a great 401(k) plan!

OUR PROCESS

It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know the team members through 1-2 conversations about Vestwell, your experience, and your interests. Next steps can vary by role, but the usual next steps are a skill or experience screen (e.g. a coding interview for an Engineer, a portfolio review for a Designer, deeper experience call for other roles) which leads to a virtual or in-person interview panel after that if the screens go well. Before making an offer, our interview process concludes with a references check stage for your recruiter to meet with a current or former supervisor and peer. We prioritize transparency and lack of surprise throughout the process.

For your awareness you will only receive correspondence from recruiting@vestwell.com any other domain not ending in Vestwell.com is not our Recruitment team.

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