Director of Talent

New York, NY

Job Overview

Do you want to have a direct impact on one of the fastest growing companies experiencing 135% year over year growth in the fastest growing industry on the web? Are you interested in taking part in solving a $100B problem by helping millions of SMBs succeed in their local markets? Are you excited about leveraging data, technology, and marketing expertise to do so?

If you have the talent and dedication to strive for excellence while also taking initiative in your respective position…Yodle is looking for you.

The Director of Talent is responsible for developing Yodle’s overall staffing strategy, ensuring that the employment brand, sourcing strategy, and selection activities reflect the values and culture of Yodle while achieving volume and quality goals for new hires.
Areas of responsibility include:
• In partnership with management and HR, assess current and future needs to develop appropriate overall staffing plans.
• Select, coach, develop high caliber talent acquisition team
• Ensure that Yodle finds and hires the best talent available to meet and exceed business goals.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop team of talent acquisition professionals including performance management, team building, development planning, and coaching.
• Be the steward of the Employment Brand.
• Overall Sourcing Strategy: Design and implement best in class, innovative, and creative sourcing strategies that meet business needs and which create a pipeline of diverse, high caliber talent for the organization. Spearheads specialized strategies for new businesses, competitive pressures, etc.
• Candidate and New Hire experience: Ensure that all potential Yodle employees have a positive experience and become ambassadors for Yodle to others. Partner with appropriate parties to ensure that new employees are welcomed to Yodle in a positive way. Speed the time to contribution by ensuring effective on-boarding and orientation experiences.
• Develop and manage internal posting process; Partner with executive team and HR Business Partners to identify appropriate steps for internal moves including programs for succession planning, development planning, job rotation, etc.
• Ensure accurate and meaningful job and candidate profiles that attract the right talent and establish clear expectations.
• Drive vendor strategy with posting boards, staffing agencies, applicant tracking system, research firms, etc. to ensure best price / value ratio.
• Determine and apply appropriate assessment and selection tools (testing, interview formats, assessment centers, etc.) to drive highest quality candidate selection, matching the right people to the right jobs. Includes training of managers on selection skills.
• Personally manage senior executive and other searches as appropriate / necessary.
• University Relations: Develop and administer a University Relations program that ensures a robust and ready pipeline of talent for the organization.
• Intern programs
• Metrics & Measurement: Use data to develop and analyze key metrics for effectiveness. Take proactive action to increase efficiencies and effect metrics in areas of cost, speed to hire, new hire retention, etc. Manage recruiting budget.
• Provide input into key talent related policies such as relocation, compensation design and administration, succession planning, etc.
• Be the in-house expert and consultant to HR and executive team on all staffing related matters

Qualifications

• 7-10 years progressive Human Resources experience, with at least 2-3 years management responsibility for recruiting / staffing programs
• A bachelor’s degree is required. Preferably in Human Resources , Business Administration or a related field. Masters degree in Human Resources or related field considered and / or certification considered a plus.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, which command the respect of the peer group, the broad employee groups, and executives throughout the corporation. Must be able to market ideas to a diverse leadership team. Build trust and credibility among his/her team and at all levels within the organization. Build highly effective relationships across the organization
• Demonstrated ability to motivate and lead others. Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills; and excellent management skills are essential.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment. Resourcefully innovate and adapt in a rapidly changing environment. Comfortable with working thru gray/ambiguous areas.
• Knowledge of staffing best practices, recruiting and selection skills (with focus on diversity) including staffing program design.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal, decision making and collaborative decision-making and work style.
• Extraordinary integrity.
• Ability to travel overnight a minimum of 10%.

Benefits

What we offer to you:
• An opportunity to further enhance your skills and refine your talent
• Competitive base
• Health/Dental benefits, 401 (K) plan
• Great work environment - we have fun!
• Accessible and open-minded leadership
• Opportunity to work with smart people and learn a lot about one of the fastest growing industries

About Yodle

Yodle is a Bessemer Ventures funded company in the midst of a major national roll out that will grow our client base dramatically over the next several years. We provide search-engine advertising and online lead generation services to small businesses. Yodle has developed an integrated approach to signing up and serving local businesses that are transitioning their marketing budgets online. We provide local businesses with a simple way to cost-effectively acquire more customers by advertising on the major search engines including: Google, Yahoo, AOL, Ask, and MSN.

Local Search is considered the new frontier in paid search marketing, the fastest growing area of both technology and advertising and the key driver of Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Over $100 billion is spent on local advertising in the U.S alone. $3 billion of that has already transitioned online. A significant opening exists to devise, build, and capitalize on this opportunity within the next 2-4 years.

Yodle Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate based on age, gender, religion, disability, marital status, race and also adheres to laws relating to non-discrimination on the basis of national origin and citizenship status.