Runway is a research company pioneering new tools for human imagination. Runway has been at the forefront of multi-modal AI systems ensuring that the future of content creation is accessible, controllable and empowering for creatives. Runway’s mission is to ensure that anyone anywhere can tell their stories. We believe that deep learning techniques applied to audiovisual content will forever change art, creativity, and design tools.
Runway is leading a shift to generative media that is unlocking an unprecedented level of creative potential. The invention of the camera 200 years ago forever changed our world – AI is a new kind of camera that will reshape storytelling forever and lead to full feature films that are entirely generated.
About the role
As a Sr. Technical Recruiter at Runway, you will play a vital role in recruiting for roles across all of our teams, with an emphasis on Engineering. You will support hiring managers and their teams by helping them build out their recruiting capabilities, teaching them to leverage recruiting tools, interviewing techniques, and recruiting best practices. In this partnership, you will also work with hiring managers to design end-to-end recruiting strategies for their roles, help them find creative ways to source great talent, and guide them in building out robust, customized interview processes.
In addition to hiring, you’ll also have exposure to various parts of the People function, including Employer Branding, Recruiting Ops, Employee Experience, and more. You’re entrepreneurial, process oriented, collaborative and innovative in order to source and hire top talent and provide a unique candidate experience.
What you’ll do
- Manage full cycle recruiting process; from sourcing candidates to coordinating interviews with the help of a Recruiting Coordinator to offer delivery
- Lead and deliver a best in class candidate experience
- Continuously work to improve diversity at Runway
- Work closely with our hiring managers to develop a deep understanding of their needs and come up with innovative recruiting strategies
- Track all search metrics and provide weekly updates to hiring managers and the broader recruiting team
- Participate in recruiting events and cross-functional projects as needed
What you’ll need
- 6+ years of recruiting experience with at least 3 years of technical recruiting experience building high caliber technical teams in an innovative, high-growth environment
- Experience and desire to work in a start-up environment
- Driven to find mechanisms and build programs that result in attracting great talent at all levels and give our hiring managers targeted pipelines where they can build strong relationships with engaged candidates
- Sourcing experience using a variety of tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Github, meetups etc.
- A commitment to diversity, and preferably, experience improving a previous employer’s diversity via specific recruiting strategies
- Attention to detail and strong organizational skills
- Outstanding communication skills, both verbal and written
- Experience utilizing applicant tracking systems (Greenhouse experience a plus)
For your application:
During the interview process, you’ll go through several different hands on exercises. We like to use these exercises so that we can get a good sense of how candidates approach problems and so that candidates can get a real sense of what it’s like to work at Runway.
For this reason, as part of your application, instead of a cover letter, we ask that you choose any open position on our careers page and find 3 LinkedIn profiles you would source for that role. You can add them to a Google doc (or something similar) and include a short note about why you think each would be a good fit. Please share a public link in your application for our team to review.
Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.
There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.
Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.
Salary range: $140,000-$190,000
Great things come from great teams. We’d love to hear from you.
We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.
More about Runway
- Runway Research
- Runway's AI Film Festival
- Creative Dialogues Series
- Runway Studios
- Our Behaviors and Company Mission
We're excited to be recognized as a best place to work Crain's | InHerSight | BuiltIn NYC | INC
What We Do
Runway was founded in 2018 with the vision that AI systems applied to audiovisual content would forever change media, art, and creativity. To achieve that vision, our research focuses on building AI systems that can understand and simulate the world and its dynamics, which we believe will form the next paradigm of computing.
Over the last five years, we’ve raised funding from top-tier investors and partners including Amplify, Coatue, Compound, Felicis, Google, Lux, NVIDIA, and Salesforce. Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring, and entrepreneurial individuals from all walks of life. We aspire to build incredible things which starts with building an incredible team, so we’d love to hear from you!
Why Work With Us
At Runway, we're building a unique team of people from diverse backgrounds who elevate one another.
We value non-traditional backgrounds.
We value ideas that are deemed “impossible.”
We value the small rituals that define and will continue to define our culture.
We aspire to build incredible things, which starts with building an incredible team!
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