Recruiting Manager

About us

We're an early stage, well-funded startup team with a proven track record of shipping open source software with global adoption. We put a premium on respectful, clear, and complete communication, and we expect each other to be creative, curious, effective, and empathetic.

We believe deeply that the right tools and abstractions enable not just technological transformation, but also organizational transformation. We strive to put the user and their hard work at the center of our decision making. In practice, that means we are looking for engineers who want to write clean APIs and helpful error messages, and who always try to understand user needs when designing a new system.

All of our open source work is done publicly. You can gain context about how we collaborate as a team and the problems we work on by exploring GitHub and looking at our code reviews.

About the role We are looking for an experienced recruiting expert to build the DNA of the company as Dagster Lab's first Recruiter. You will have full ownership over our recruiting approach, processes and tools, and will play a pivotal role in helping us to scale the company to new heights. We are looking for an awesome self-starter with a strategic mindset, but has a "no job too small" attitude and is willing to roll up their sleeves to help with anything that is needed to move the company forward. This role is perfect for someone who loves the thrill of the close but wants to take on more strategic and creative ownership of an entire recruiting function. This is a full-time, competitively paid position with benefits. We are a distributed team with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis. We have team members all over the U.S. and we are hiring fully remote candidates in the U.S. Every employee is provided a remote work stipend to cover the cost of home office equipment and anything else that makes your remote work location comfortable, productive, or successful. And if you'd rather not work from home, we'll cover the cost of a coworking or office space if you're fully remote.

Responsibilities:

• Take candidates from intro to offer, serving as their first and constant point of contact
• Source, engage and nurture relationships with passive talent
• Own execution of recruiting operations including scheduling interviews, running search kickoffs, candidate debriefs etc.
• Collaborate with our hiring managers to create well-crafted job descriptions, qualifications, experience required, as well as a recruiting strategy for each role
• Guide and educate hiring managers, interviewers and the broader company on recruiting approach and process
• Keep diversity top of mind and seek new ways to discover talent from a range of backgrounds
• Own and optimize an effective and memorable candidate experience that results in successful closes or promoters/referrals if it is not the right fit
• Own relationships with, and decisions on when to use external recruiting agencies
• Manage recruiting initiatives including internships, referrals, employer branding, campus recruiting, recruiting events to build talent pipeline
• Track goals, metrics and performance of the hiring cycle, with regular reports to the team
  
  

Must-have Qualifications If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.

• 3+ years in full-cycle recruiting with a successful track record of sourcing and closing roles across roles and seniority levels
• A passion for day-to-day recruiting, but a desire to expand leadership capabilities and a voice in recruiting strategy
• A personable communication style with the ability to connect with talent from all backgrounds, while maintaining an underlying streak of competitiveness when it comes to the close
• The ability to articulate our business and product to top talent in the areas we are hiring for
• Experience with Greenhouse and other talent tools, has a solid knowledge of industry best practices
• Experience at a fast-growing tech startup and comfort with ambiguity
• Excitement at the prospect of translating high level recruiting goals into implementation and owning the execution end to end
  
  

You belong here

We are committed to building an inclusive team and an open-source community where no one feels out of place. We know that teams with diverse backgrounds state their assumptions more explicitly, think more rigorously, and build better software. Plus it's more fun and interesting to work with a wide variety of perspectives.

You should apply to work at Dagster Labs if you want to work in, and help to build and strengthen, a high-performing software development environment where people of all backgrounds are welcome.

Our Stack

Dagster is built in Python and TypeScript to work on macOS, Posix, and Windows. We use GraphQL, Apollo, and React to develop beautiful frontend tooling. We integrate with a wide range of databases, data warehouses, orchestration engines, compute substrates, and cloud services.

The estimated annual cash salary for this role is $120,000 - $200,000.

Other Resources:

• The launch of Dagster blog post
• Launching Dagster Cloud to GA blog post
• The Data Engineering Impedance Mismatch blogpost/presentation
• What Dagster Believes About Data Platforms
• Software-Defined Assets blog post, Data Council talk, and animated explainer
• The April 2024 Dagster+ launch event