Who We Are

Babylist is the trusted platform for millions of growing families. For over a decade, Babylist has been the technology solution for expecting parents and the community that supports them, expanding from baby registry into a full-service platform that helps parents make decisions with confidence, stay connected, and build happy and healthy families. Every year Babylist helps over 9M people make purchases through its registry, app, ecommerce shop, and comprehensive product guides. The Babylist ecosystem now includes Babylist Health, which provides access to products and services including insurance-covered breast pumps, Expectful, a new voice in health and wellness for pre-pregnancy through postpartum care, and The Push, a branded content studio that works with the biggest companies in the baby space. With over 59M monthly pageviews and 1.2M TikTok followers, Babylist is a generational brand leading the $88 billion baby product industry. To learn about Babylist's registry options, editorial content, and more, visit www.babylist.com

Our Ways of Working

We have team members located across the United States spanning multiple time zones. This means we put in extra effort to make sure we connect and collaborate in ways that make sense for us. We know how valuable the flexibility of remote work is for our employees.

We know that personal connection is the foundation for the great work we do together. In order to build those relationships with team members in other cities, we meet with coworkers in person two times a year at a full company offsite and a departmental offsite. These offsites are expected of employees and are great opportunities to meet the people you work with every day and to do some of the work that is much more difficult to do virtually.

While this role is fully remote in the United States, you must be willing to be available until 4:00pm PT, Monday - Friday.

What the Role Is

Babylist is seeking a dynamic Head of Talent Acquisition. Hiring at Babylist is truly a business transforming endeavor - we are only as good as the talent we attract and retain; you will be a key leader in this effort, influencing the trajectory of the company into the future.

As the leader of our Talent Acquisition team, you will manage a team of technical and business recruiters and recruiting coordinators. You will iterate upon our current talent acquisition processes and build scalable strategies for Babylist to grow effectively. You will redefine and develop a Talent Acquisition strategy and operation that attracts world-class talent in a rapidly changing talent landscape. You'll partner with the leadership team and hiring leaders across the company to understand priorities and anticipate hiring needs.

You're creative, excited by experimentation and designing strategies to grow headcount in a way that maintains an exceptional bar and high Babylist values alignment. You will be a key member of our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging group and build bias mitigation and diversity into every facet of your team, programming and strategies.

Who You Are

8+ years of people management experience, leading a recruiting function in a growing company
5+ years of experience as a recruiter, preferably as a technical recruiter
Built and managed a high-performing recruiting team who knows how to recruit exceptional high quality talent
Proven ability to lead Talent Acquisition teams to hit hiring and business targets
Demonstrated experience working with senior stakeholders and hiring leaders and the ability to influence multiple facets of the organization cross-functionally
Highly analytical and understands the importance of tracking metrics to help build effective and scalable teams

How You Will Make An Impact

Drive a scalable recruiting strategy that is focused on presenting high quality talent across Babylist. You instill the importance of quality of candidates over getting a req closed within your team
Build interview & hiring training that captures Babylist's unique culture. Train all hiring managers on what good looks and feels like for Babylist
Build a recruiting track covering what it feels like to work at Babylist so we can set new hires up for success; 30-60-90 directive onboarding plan with real deliverables, heavy documentation culture, lots of direct feedback, working in public in public slack channels and shared documents
Be a member of the people leadership team. Build trusted relationships with senior leaders of the company to help them build and support the growth on their teams and functions
Develop, evolve and evangelize Babylist's general employer and tech employer brand
Develop programs to enhance Babylist's pipeline (e.g., internship programs, functional networking events, relationships with target schools / bootcamps, etc.) in partnership with DEIB leadership
Build, develop and retain an efficient, high-performing Talent Acquisition team
Tell the story of how TA is presenting top quality talent. Define the right KPIs. Develop a suite of analytics and tooling that helps measure the efficacy of our Talent Acquisition operations and programs. You will own the Talent Acquisition update in our quarterly business review.
Be tech savvy to create and improve Talent Acquisition systems that could include tools like Greenhouse, Gem, and Charthop working within a Mac and Google environment
Be a subject matter expert and stay connected to the competitive landscape, including compensation and employment brand trends
Collaborate with a diverse range of hiring managers and senior stakeholders to execute against key hiring objectives
Define consistent data-driven quality bar, hiring metrics and goals

Why You Will Love Working At Babylist

We invest in the infrastructure you'll need to be supported and successful: tools, opportunities to connect with colleagues, and a stipend to help you set up your office
We build products that have a positive impact on millions of people's lives
We work at a sustainable pace which means work/life balance is a real thing here
We believe technology and data can solve hard problems
We believe in exceptional management
We are an antiracist organization and doing the work to support differences of all kinds
We offer competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
We have great benefits like company paid medical, dental, and vision, a generous paid parental leave policy, and 401k with company match
We care about employee wellbeing with perks for physical, mental and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning

Babylist takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location.

The estimated pay range for this role is $149,815.00 - $224,930.00

In addition, Babylist offers equity, bonus, and benefits, including company paid health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) matching, flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Our company takes the security and privacy of job applicants very seriously. We will never ask for payment, bank details, or personal financial information as part of the application process. All of our legitimate job postings can be found on our official career site. Please be cautious of job offers that come from non-company email addresses (@babylist.com), instant messaging platforms or unsolicited calls.

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