Field Sales Recruiting Manager

Location(s):
San Francisco, CA - HQ
 
Description: Salesforce.com has rapidly evolved from a startup founded by four people in a cramped San Francisco apartment in 1999 to a company with more than 2,500 employees, an $800 Million Annual Revenue Run Rate and over 1,000,000 users worldwide. As a pioneer in on-demand business services, we are transforming the software industry, championing what we call the “democratization” of software—offering small companies the benefits of sophisticated business applications, a luxury previously affordable only for large enterprises. Our customers range in size from tiny companies to global multinational corporations and represent diverse industries. Top talent across the world joins salesforce.com for its “change the world” mentality; the opportunity to excel in a performance-driven, fast-paced, and competitive atmosphere; the chance to be surrounded by peers and leaders that inspire, motivate, and innovate and a corporate philosophy that incorporates community involvement into its fabric.

We are looking for a ‘player-coach’ manager to lead a team of sales recruiters. This person will provide leadership and direction for the recruiting team that recruits for the NA Field Sales organization.

Responsibilities:
    This person will develop and implement strategic and tactical staffing plans and provides direction to a small team of recruiters. Full life-cycle recruitment responsibilities for selected client organizations; Maintain and manage team metrics and reporting for the client groups on key trends; Partner closely with HR Business Partners and Compensation/Rewards teammates. Clearly understands the esoteric nature of sales recruitment as it relates to candidate-type, hiring manager, compensation mixes, commission pay-outs, etc…

    Note, this is a player-coach role. As such, this person will consistently carry a normal req load quarter-over-quarter.


Required Skills/Experience:
  • 10+ years related experience in a hyper-growth recruiting environment for leading technology companies and/or start-up environments; Minimum of 2+ years experience in a management or lead role of a team of at least 4+
  • 3-5+ plus years of recruiting, executive search firm experience and/or sales (inside or outside) experience (i.e. inside sales rep at leading technology player or Associate at Executive Search Firm)
  • Ideally will have spent a handful of years at a boutique or major executive recruitment firm
  • Knowledge of the key companies in the enterprise software space and their sales organization
  • Approaches processes to determine most scalable & adoptable model
  • Knowledge of and experience managing various programs related to but not limited to recruiting
  • Has a strong pulse of market movement: M&A activity, executive movement, etc…
  • Promotes strong teamwork and aggressive outbound recruitment philosophy
  • Can marry both external market expertise with internal business processes and partnering
  • Understands the values of metrics and executes against specific quarterly and annual hiring goals; provided quarterly metrics to respective client group VPs or on-demand
  • Adept & disciplined in using an Applicant Tracking System
  • Strong business and technology acumen
  • Proficient in MS Office
  • BA/BS degree
  • Must have ability to influence; confident working with senior level candidates and internal Senior Management
  • Speaks & thinks in terms of “we” vs. “I”
  • Welcomes change; open to learning and doing things differently despite your years of experience
  • Action-oriented; gets things done
  • Flexible; gets hands-dirty and rolls with the punches
  • Build trust; transparent
  • Practice what you preach. Models the behavior of a great recruiter
  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills
  • Dependable; can be counted on
  • Very customer focused
  • Very strong work-ethic and will do whatever it takes; takes initiative
  • Accountable for his/her actions and the results of the team
  • Highly organized
  • Optimistic attitude & energy
  • Innovative; not afraid to try new things
  • Intuitive


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