Director of Talent Acquisition

Meet Instinct 👋

Instinct Science is an animal health software company that helps the world’s leading veterinary practices enhance patient care, improve staff efficiency, and minimize burnout. Our easy-to-use platform acts as the nerve center for veterinarians, veterinary nurses, and support staff alike, fostering seamless collaboration across teams. With our January 2024 acquisition of VetMedux, a trusted education and point-of-care information company for veterinarians, Instinct has strengthened our commitment to delivering the mission-critical tools veterinary practices need to care for their patients at the highest level and with the best outcomes!

We’re fueled by compassion! Our team, our customers, and their patients and animal owners matter immensely to us. We put the Customer First; Act with Grace, Not Teeth; Do the Right Things for the Right Reasons; and know that Excellence is in our DNA. 

If these values speak to you, you might be a good fit for our Director of Talent Acquisition role.

A Sneak Peek of Your Role 🔭

As our first Director of Talent Acquisition at Instinct, you’ll be the owner of all things recruiting and hiring for us. As a first point of contact for all potential new team members, you are responsible for setting the stage for why everyone should want to work at Instinct! This includes proactively sourcing talent, conducting all screening conversations, partnering with leadership on hiring strategies long term, amongst general day-to-day recruiting activities. This role is best suited for someone who can find great team members and think big, but knows that no job is beneath them. 

What You’ll Do 🐱‍💻

• Create and maintain a qualified pipeline of high-potential candidates for key positions with a focus on talent density and retention
• Own and optimize our applicant tracking system, ensuring workflows are complete, templates are clean, and candidates are well organized
• Perform pre-screening calls to analyze applicants’ abilities
• Collaborate with functional leaders, finance and people operations to forecast hiring needs and ensure alignment with company goals
• Craft and send personalized recruiting emails with current job openings to passive candidates
• Draft job posts and compose offer letters
• Provide weekly data analysis of recruiting/hiring data to the People Ops and Executive teams
• Partner with other members of People Ops team to drive initiatives
• Promote Instinct’s reputation as a Great Place to Work

Who You Are 🐱‍💻

• Must Haves:
  • 7+ years of recruiting experience is preferred, preferably in a SaaS, start-up environment with an emphasis on technical and product recruiting
  • Familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems and resume databases, especially JazzHR and LinkedIn
  • Solid knowledge of sourcing techniques (e.g. social media recruiting)
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Proven track records of driving hiring/recruiting related initiatives
  • Proactive to a fault
  • Incredibly comfortable with ambiguity, changing priorities, and understanding the ebbs and flows of hiring needs
• Nice-to-Haves:
  • Experience working within other People Ops fields outside of recruiting, especially in training and coaching, career development, or people analytics

How Instinct will Care about YOU 🌞

• We offer a supportive and caring work environment.
• We are transparent, open, honest, and empathic, both internally and externally.
• We pay our team well. 
• We offer medical, dental and vision benefits and 401K with match.
• We give our team owner-like flexibility over work and time-off, including time to innovate and Slow Fridays.
• We offer a generous stipend that can be used for almost anything to allow you to bring your best self to work.
• We offer a rewarding employee stock plan so that you share in our success.
• We provide all-expense-paid time throughout the year together, including at our annual retreat.

Base Compensation range for this role is $130,000 - $150,000

Instinct is an equal opportunity employer committed to equality and providing a pleasant work environment free from harassment or discrimination in any form. All employees will be treated equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, ancestry, veteran, or disability status.

If you require accommodations throughout any part of the pre-employment process, please contact our People team at peopleteam@instinct.vet