Talent Acquisition Partner, Engineering

About the role

The Netskope Engineering & Product Talent Team partners with R&D leadership to identify, source, assess and hire candidates who meet our current and future hiring and diversity goals. We own and drive the recruiting process from the identification of needs and related sourcing strategy, through outreach, interviewing and assessment, offer negotiation and closing, and ensuring a smooth transition to the HR team for onboarding.

What's in it for you

We offer the rewarding experience of working with the best minds in the network / cloud / cybersecurity industry, and the opportunity to help build and evolve the team that is changing the world through our innovation and market leadership, and the scale, resilience, and performance of our global cloud security platform.

What you will be doing

• Partnering with senior engineering leadership and hiring managers to identify and anticipate needs, and developing sourcing strategies and targets that generate a consistent candidate pipeline.
• Playing a full life-cycle recruiting role for your searches, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and assessing candidates, and using your knowledge of the competitive landscape, market compensation norms and candidate psychology to help guide the candidate and hiring manager through the offer negotiation and closing process.
• Playing a hands-on role in all sourcing and screening for your open headcount, including cold call, email and LinkedIn outreach to generate initial interest, followed by deeper Zoom qualification calls before sharing candidates with the hiring teams.
• Being the point person for hiring managers and related teams, and balancing multiple concurrent searches with competing priorities at the same time.
• Creating recruiting plans that increase our potential candidate pool and ensure a diverse range of candidates for current and future hiring needs.
• Helping to identify tools and process tweaks that improve our recruiting platform and efficiency.

Required skills and experience

• Ten (10) or more years of relevant technical recruiting experience including direct experience working for a company building products for the enterprise market, as well as prior experience working in an agency environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong, proactive problem solving skills and the drive to get things done the right way the first time in a fast-paced startup environment
• The ability to seamlessly transition between all stages of an end-end recruiting process and manage multiple searches for multiple hiring managers at the same time.
• Strong direct-sourcing skills including research / sourcing, cold calling, email and InMail outreach.
• Experience recruiting for product companies developing solutions for the enterprise that span cloud networking, distributed systems, big data engineering, cloud and network security, etc.
• Hands-on experience with Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, sourcing tools such as Gem / Greenhouse Sourcing Automation, regional job boards, etc.
• Discretion and good judgment is a critical required skill for this role as erroneous decisions will have a serious impact on the overall success of functional and company operations.

Education

• Bachelor's degree required