Recruiter

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Job description

Blue Bottle Coffee is a passionate and growing team of hundreds around the world, united by the simple purpose of connecting the world to delicious coffee. We roast on three coasts, make delicious drinks, clean up after ourselves, bake cookies, get change at the bank, and say please and thank you. We're an impossibly eclectic group of coffee experts, artists, writers, sensory scientists, bakers, designers, and all-around dreamers, who also happen to be some of the most hard working and talented in the business. Join us.

About the job

Blue Bottle is writing a new chapter to the story and traditions of coffee and hospitality. Our Recruiter ensures our Cafes have the amazing team members needed to play their part. This role will partner with our teams to attract and hire talent to build their careers at one of the most exciting and fastest-growing coffee and consumer companies in the world.

You will

• Actively recruit against hiring targets for existing and new cafes, and production facilities
• Manage the entire recruiting life-cycle by actively participating in all recruiting related activities and programs for our teams
• Own relationships with hiring managers and collaborate with them to customize and execute hiring plans; become a trusted partner.
• Meet weekly recruiting targets and partner with training teams to ensure a warm handover of all new hires
• Deep knowledge of areas of support, their needs and operational outlook
• Continuously focus on building and maintaining a brand that is capable of reaching candidates from all backgrounds.
• Deliver qualified diverse candidate pipelines for active roles, as well as actively network and establish strong relationships with external candidates and organizations
• Deploy innovative and effective tactics in candidate sourcing including community partnerships, referrals, networks, social channels, events, competitor analysis and more
• Create consistent workflow within region within a Recruiter Work Week framework
• Maintain high quality standards for our hiring based on role-specific competencies, and help us evolve our interview and assessment processes to meet them with every hire
• Source prospective candidates using proprietary database systems, job boards and community-based organizations, as well as grass roots activities.
• Collaborate with team members on a variety of cross-cutting initiatives including employee orientation/onboarding, talent planning, group interviewing programs, compliance, technology implementation, etc.
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You are

• Hyper-focused on the candidate experience
• An excellent communicator who builds trust-based relationships with candidates and Blue Bottle team members
• Passionate about diversity and inclusion within the recruiting process
• An effective time manager, with the ability to set your own daily, weekly, monthly targets based upon multiple cafe staffing needs
• Comfortable with ambiguity, rapidly changing environments, and building from scratch
• Creative, scrappy, and resourceful with an infectious enthusiasm and 'can do' attitude
• A brand-builder who shapes and communicates powerfully effective recruiting messages
• Analytical and metric-oriented, always seeking internal and external data to validate our approach
• Willing to travel up to 35% of the time to markets within the US
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You have

• 3+ years of experience driving recruiting efforts in high volume, high hiring bar environments in retail
• A proven track record for successfully identifying and hiring exceptional candidates
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities with bias to action and attention to detail
• Experience in competency-based, behavioral interviewing techniques
• Exceptional presentation skills and the ability to facilitate and conduct group interviews
• Knowledge of Lever ATS a plus
• Last but not least, a deep love for great coffee, food, and exceptional guest experiences
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Physical Activity

• The following is a list of the physical activity, requirements, and environmental factors related to this role. Blue Bottle is committed to partnering with all candidates and employees to ensure reasonable accommodations are made to meet the following:
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word;
• Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication.
• Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal and written documentation
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Occasionally walking, climbing stairs, and standing occur in this role.
• Environment: this role is protected within a building, but may be exposed to mild changes in temperature with heating or air conditioning.
• This role requires travel up to 35%. Additional walking, stooping, sitting, and mobility may be required. Exposure to outside environmental elements may be experienced due to travel through airports, airplanes, and in between facilities
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A Few Benefits We Offer

• Health care benefits (medical, dental, and vision) for you and your dependents starting on your first day at Blue Bottle
• 401(k) plan
• Paid time off and parental leave
• Free drinks at any of our cafes
• Discounts on any Blue Bottle food items, bags of beans, and merchandise
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At Blue Bottle Coffee, you'll be a vital part of our guests' experience and a crucial link in delivering the most delicious coffee we can find to every person who walks through our doors, be it in person or online. If you're ready to bring beautiful and thoughtfully rendered experiences to life, please apply and join us.

Blue Bottle is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value an open mind, dedication to work, and a collaborative spirit. We hire based on these qualities, a job's requirements, our business's needs, and an applicant's qualifications. We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind-in the hiring process or in the workplace.

We comply with the ADA and consider reasonable accommodation measures that may be necessary for eligible applicants/employees to perform essential functions.

We may refuse to hire relatives of present employees if doing so could result in actual or potential problems in supervision, security, safety, or morale, or if doing so could create conflicts of interest.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We participate in E-Verify. We will provide the federal government with employees' Form I-9 information to confirm authorization to work in the U.S. We will only use E-Verify once an employee has accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

Blue Bottle requires that all of its team members are fully vaccinated (i.e., at least 14 days after the final dose of a Covid-19 vaccine) by the start of their first day of work, unless they qualify for an accommodation/exemption for medical, disability, or religious reasons.