Senior Design Recruiter
About The Position
The Senior Design Recruiter partners with hiring managers and design leadership to define team needs and role requirements, aligning hiring goals across Product Design, Brand Design, and Design Leadership. The role sources, engages, and assesses design talent through diverse channels and manages the full recruitment lifecycle, from outreach through onboarding. It develops strategies to attract and retain diverse design talent and builds pipelines for immediate and longer-term hiring needs. The recruiter tracks hiring metrics to improve effectiveness, collaborates across functions to support fair and consistent evaluation, and promotes Brex’s employer brand in the design community. This includes representing Brex at design events, portfolio reviews, and relevant social platforms. The role is based in Brex’s Seattle office in a hybrid environment, with at least three coordinated office days per week (Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday) and up to four weeks per year of fully remote work.
Requirements
- Proven experience recruiting for Product Design and Brand Design roles in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Strong sourcing skills and familiarity with AI tools, recruiting platforms, and creative talent networks.
- Ability to assess design portfolios and understand craft, systems thinking, and user-centered methods.
- Excellent communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Data-driven mindset, with the ability to interpret recruiting metrics and drive process improvements.
- Ability to manage multiple searches and priorities at once.
Nice To Haves
- Experience recruiting design leaders or building design teams from the ground up.
- Familiarity with compensation strategy and market analysis for design roles.
- Employer branding or talent marketing experience focused on the design community.
- Experience hiring across multiple geographies, including the US, Canada, and LATAM.
Responsibilities
- Lead sourcing and outreach for design roles using recruiting platforms, creative communities, portfolio sites, and social networks.
- Recruit across Product Design, Brand/Visual Design, and Design Leadership.
- Screen and evaluate portfolios, craft quality, systems thinking, and collaboration skills.
- Partner with design leaders to calibrate craft standards, the hiring bar, and team composition.
- Coordinate and facilitate interview processes, including portfolio reviews and design exercises, while providing a high-quality candidate experience.
- Give hiring managers and stakeholders regular updates on pipeline health and progress.
- Keep candidate data accurate in recruiting systems and dashboards.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of recruiting processes, inclusive hiring, and candidate experience.
- Help shape and promote Brex’s design employer brand.
- Represent Brex at design events, portfolio reviews, and on relevant social platforms.
- Track and analyze key hiring metrics to improve recruiting effectiveness.
- Develop strategies to attract and retain diverse design talent and build pipelines for immediate and long-term needs.
Benefits
- Up to four weeks per year of fully remote work.
- Equity and other forms of compensation may be provided, depending on the position offered.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
