Coursera is a leading online learning platform for higher education, where 82 million learners from around the world come to learn skills of the future. More than 220 of the world’s top universities and industry educators partner with Coursera to offer courses, Specializations, certificates, and degree programs. Thousands of companies trust the company’s enterprise platform Coursera for Business to transform their talent. Coursera for Government equips government employees and citizens with in-demand skills to build a competitive workforce. Coursera for Campus empowers any university to offer high-quality, job-relevant online education to students, alumni, faculty, and staff. Coursera is backed by leading investors that include Kleiner Perkins, New Enterprise Associates, Learn Capital, and SEEK Group.
The People team at Coursera is responsible for building our teams, retaining our amazing talent and developing programs that create community and promote employee betterment. Currently, we are tackling projects aimed at helping Coursera to continue to scale as a global company made up of high-performance teams. We are passionate about fulfilling our company’s mission to transform lives through learning.
As a Senior Recruiter, you play a critical role in partnering across G&A functions to define our hiring needs and build innovative recruiting strategies to effectively attract and hire top talent. In this role you will source, attract and build relationships with individuals that reflect our global community of diverse learners. To be successful, you should be proactive and self-motivated, have a track record of juggling multiple reqs with a high volume of candidates, have an understanding and appreciation for cultural diversity, be comfortable closing talent and influencing leaders at any level, have a strong sense of urgency, and a passion for bringing education to the world!
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Responsibilities:
- Effectively partner with your hiring managers & leadership team to understand their talent needs and build hiring strategies
- Build phenomenal pipelines of diverse talent with an emphasis on creating extraordinary candidate experience
- Manage high volume searches simultaneously with attention to meeting customer deadlines
- Facilitate interview process, hiring decisions and offer negotiations
- Help ensure recruiting data integrity by utilizing our ATS (Lever) in an optimal way
- Track and analyze metrics and reports on hiring progress to leadership on a regular cadence
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience as a full life-cycle recruiter, including experience with proactive sourcing and candidate offers and closing
- Experience with Applicant Tracking Systems and other sourcing tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, etc.
- Experience creating and fostering partnerships with internal leadership and executive teams
- Experience analyzing data, understanding trends, developing and articulating recommendations for action based on the data analysis
Preferred Qualifications:
- Background in using innovative research & sourcing methods to hire for niche areas, hard to fill roles, and candidate with diverse skillsets
- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
- Intermediate knowledge of Excel or Google Sheets (vlookup, pivot tables, functions)
- Previous project management experience
- Business fluency in Spanish
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Coursera is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected class.
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United States (Remote) /
People – People /
Full-time Exempt
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