Principal Recruiter, Design

Job Description

Founded in 2008, Airbnb’s mission is to create a world where people can belong through healthy travel that is local, authentic, diverse, inclusive and sustainable. Airbnb uniquely leverages technology to economically empower millions of people around the world to unlock and monetize their spaces, passions and talents to become hospitality entrepreneurs. Airbnb’s accommodation marketplace provides access to 5+ million unique places to stay in more than 81,000 cities and 191 countries. With Experiences, Airbnb offers unprecedented access to local communities and interests through 15,000 unique, handcrafted activities run by hosts across 1,000+ cities around the world. Airbnb's people-to-people platform benefits all its stakeholders, including hosts, guests, employees and the communities in which it operates. In order to build the world's most loved travel company, we need the world's most interesting and talented people. Are you one of them? If so, we want to talk to you! As a Principal Recruiter at Airbnb, you will make an impact as a key contributor, hiring creative talent to build innovative digital products and campaigns. You will work as a talent advisor, crucial contributor, and key partner to the functional business leaders and hiring managers, developing strategies to approach, engage, and hire the best design talent in the world. The ideal candidate will have experience recruiting for both technical and non-technical design roles (Product, Experience Design (UI/UX), Design Research, Content/UX Writing, Creative, Design Operations/PM), and will work as a strategic talent advisor to their hiring teams. Coming to the table with an informed point-of view on the talent pool, interview best practices, assessment criteria, and the competitive market is a must. This person will have extremely sound professional judgement and will be able to adapt to a variety of situations quickly, and with agility.

Responsibilities:

• Leading senior-level full-cycle recruiting processes from initial outreach through offer, for simultaneous, complex searches
• Build innovative sourcing and engagement strategies, driving and managing unique candidate pipelines to explore, leverage, and support our commitment to building talented and diverse teams
• Establish and maintain meaningful relationships with broader recruiting team, and cross-functional internal teams including Talent, Diversity & Belonging, Compensation, and Legal
• Champion and obsess over an exceptional end-to-end candidate experience, striving for timely and impactful communications
• Maintain data integrity, proactively sharing data-centric updates with internal stakeholders and utilizing insights to improve recruiting efficiency and influence hiring decisions
• Clear communication (written, verbal, meetings) with business partners and hiring managers, establishing timelines, milestones, and expected outcomes

Requirements:

• 10+ years’ full-cycle recruiting experience, with at least 6 years’ focused on design, UX, and/or creative recruiting
• Confidence in researching, sourcing, engaging, and activating passive candidates
• Track record for successfully identifying, qualifying, and closing elite talent at a global consumer-facing brand
• Keen ability to interpret business challenges and recommend best practices to improve processes
• Excitement to balance autonomous, proactive efforts with collaborative, team-minded workstreams #OneTeamOneGoal

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