Recruiting & Candidate Experience Manager

Terray Therapeutics • Monrovia, CA

21d • $94,000 - $130,000

About The Position

Terray is seeking a Recruiting & Candidate Experience Manager to coordinate and guide candidates through a thoughtful, efficient hiring process across life sciences, computational science, and technology. The position focuses less on direct sourcing and recruiting and more on ensuring candidates move smoothly through the process, hiring teams stay aligned, and candidates have a positive experience. Hiring managers remain actively involved in identifying and recruiting talent. The manager ensures roles are posted effectively, evaluates when external recruiting support is appropriate, and manages third-party recruiting relationships for quality, effectiveness, and cost.

The role oversees the candidate journey from application through the first weeks at Terray. It coordinates interviews and candidate communications, gathers feedback, brings hiring committees together, and helps ensure decisions and next steps happen promptly. The manager partners with hiring managers to define candidate profiles, interview plans, recruiting strategies, and tailored onboarding plans, and works with People Operations and hiring managers on offers and closing. The position also uses hiring and onboarding data to identify bottlenecks and improve processes. A scientific or engineering background is not required, but curiosity and a willingness to develop technical fluency are important for communicating credibly with candidates and hiring teams.

Terray describes its work environment as hands-on, with employees accountable, invested in a vision of excellence, and actively involved in business success. The company aims to provide a positive environment where employees feel engaged, recognized, and empowered to be creative. Compensation is $94,000–$130,000 annually, depending on experience. Terray says its salary ranges are benchmarked against market base salary plus bonus, and pay is aligned to role scope, skill level, and impact. Benefits include participation in the Company’s stock option plan, a 3% retirement safe harbor contribution, fully paid health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families, above-market life insurance, disability coverage, and additional benefits discussed during the offer process.

Requirements

• Experience coordinating recruiting, talent acquisition, or a similar people-focused process in a fast-moving organization.
• Strong project management skills and ability to keep multiple searches, candidates, and hiring teams moving simultaneously.
• Excellent candidate communication and relationship-building skills.
• Strong judgment and ability to partner effectively with hiring managers and senior leaders.
• Experience coordinating interviews, hiring decisions, offers, and onboarding.
• Comfort using recruiting data and systems to track progress, identify bottlenecks, and improve processes.
• Highly organized, responsive, and detail-oriented while maintaining focus on the overall candidate experience.
• Curiosity and comfort learning enough about highly technical roles to communicate effectively with candidates and hiring teams.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Experience in biotech, life sciences, technology, or another specialized talent environment is helpful, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate hiring through onboarding, guiding candidates from application through their first weeks at Terray.
• Partner with hiring managers to define candidate profiles, interview plans, recruiting strategies, and personalized onboarding plans.
• Ensure jobs are posted and promoted through effective channels and talent communities.
• Determine when third-party recruiting support adds value and manage external recruiter relationships for quality, effectiveness, and cost.
• Serve as candidates’ point of contact, building relationships and keeping them informed and engaged throughout the process.
• Manage interview scheduling, interviewer preparation, candidate communication, and interview logistics.
• Gather feedback, coordinate hiring discussions, and ensure clear decisions and next steps.
• Coordinate offers, candidate questions, and closing in partnership with People Operations and hiring managers.
• Tailor onboarding with hiring managers to give each new hire the context, connections, and resources needed to get up to speed.
• Track hiring and onboarding effectiveness, identify bottlenecks, and continuously improve the candidate and new-hire experience.
• Build knowledge of Terray’s science, technology, roles, and talent market to be an effective partner.

Benefits

• Participation in the Company’s stock option plan.
• 3% retirement safe harbor contribution.
• Fully paid health, dental, and vision insurance for employees, spouses, partners, and families.
• Above-market life insurance.
• Disability coverage.
• Additional benefits to explore during the offer process.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed