Talent Associate

As a Talent Associate at Via, you'll play a direct role in growing, scaling, and operationalizing talent processes. We’re a people first organization and it’s the cornerstone of Via’s success. You will work in partnership with recruiters and hiring managers to find the best candidates for a variety of business functions. You’ll implement thoughtful and creative strategies to engage top talent. With a focus on diversity and inclusion, you'll help craft and refine our strategies for candidate engagement and experience. As Via continues to scale, you will play a critical role in helping achieve our ambitious hiring goals. 

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with recruiters and hiring managers to understand their hiring needs to help create and implement strategies for candidate outreach.
• Proactively map, track, and source top talent across major US markets; leveraging your strong research skills, you'll become a subject matter expert in industry trends and complex talent searches.
• Build strong, diverse, and inclusive candidate pools using various sourcing techniques
• Make data-driven decisions, using relevant metrics to assess the effectiveness of your sourcing strategies and demonstrate results.
• Conduct initial conversations and preliminary interviews with candidates across teams and functions.
• Create a best-in-class candidate experience throughout the interview experience
• Develop robust internal processes to optimize the efficacy, agility and impact of the Strategic Growth function
• Champion our team's commitments to AD&I in all aspects of your work.

Who You Are

• Intellectually curious, collaborative, and eager to grow in a fast-moving People Operations function.
• Results-driven; you're motivated to meet and exceed your goals.
• Reliable, independent, and able to manage high-priority projects in a fast-paced environment. 
• A savvy, tactful, and graceful communicator – you intuitively find the right tone in every situation, and enjoy working with others.
• Analytical and innovative; you're a natural problem-solver, and you approach new challenges with creativity.
• Technically savvy; you may already know some Boolean operators, and you're excited to explore new platforms.

Compensation and Benefits

• Final salary will be determined by the candidate’s experience, knowledge, and skills. Salary reflected does not include equity or variable pay, where applicable
• Salary Range: $65,000-$85,000

We’re Via, and we build technology that changes the way the world moves. We’re driven by a simple mission: to create modern and efficient public transportation systems that provide far greater access to jobs, healthcare, and education. With our best in class suite of products, we make transit thrive. 

Our teams of world-class engineers, data-scientists, product managers, operations specialists, marketers, transit experts and more bring cutting-edge AI-powered software and innovative technology-enabled operations to our partners across the globe. Founded in 2012, Via builds solutions to digitize, automate, and enable data-driven decision making for entire transportation networks; fixed-route buses, microtransit, paratransit, school buses, autonomous vehicles, and more. 

If you’re excited to be at the forefront of modernizing the future of transportation, are up for solving tough problems, and willing to become/already are a transit nerd, we are the place for you. Even if your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description for this role, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities. 

Ready to join the ride?

Via is an equal opportunity employer.

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