Staff Technical Recruiter

Ford Motor Company • Long Beach, CA

8h • $127,100 - $239,900 • Hybrid

About The Position

As part of our Talent Acquisition team, you’ll help us attract, hire and retain the top talent we need to achieve our bold vision. You’ll play a vital role in defining, developing and maintaining the winning culture that empowers diverse individuals to work together and create the impossible. We’re seeking change leaders, talent strategists, employee advocates and culture architects to enable our teams, partners, and businesses to do and be their best. Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

Requirements

• Some college coursework or equivalent relevant experience.
• 7+ years of recruiting experience, including technical and automotive recruiting, with an understanding of how recruiting can influence a company’s inclusion and diversity landscape.
• Expertise in full-cycle recruiting, from intake and sourcing through candidate assessment, offer, and close.
• Proven ability to engage, influence, and close hard-to-recruit candidates in a competitive market.
• Experience or exposure to recruiting in global markets and partnering with candidates or stakeholders across different locations and cultures.
• Ability to own the candidate experience and provide a thoughtful, responsive, and consistent experience from initial contact through offer and close.
• Self-motivated and driven, with a track record of identifying solutions, taking initiative, and delivering impact.
• Curious and resourceful, with the ability to look beyond the job profile, research market trends and relevant technologies, and develop a strong understanding of the business and its talent needs.
• Open to feedback and committed to continued learning and career development.

Nice To Haves

• Experience recruiting in a heavily matrixed organization, building effective partnerships across functions, business units, and leadership levels while navigating differing priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to guide hiring teams toward timely, well-informed candidate decisions by sharing candidate insights, market context, and clear recommendations.
• Ability to communicate a compelling case for an opportunity, connecting candidates’ interests and career goals with the role, team, and organization.
• Experience recruiting for specialized technical roles, such as embedded software engineers, systems integration engineers, thermal engineers, chassis controls engineers, battery development or cell-testing specialists, and mechanical hardware engineers.

Responsibilities

• Conduct intake meetings with hiring managers to understand needs, ensuring alignment between job descriptions, and target candidate profiles
• Persistent pursuit of passive candidates via personalized reach-outs
• Be an advocate for DEI both internally and externally
• Conduct initial phone screens with candidates to assess suitability for positions
• Source high caliber active and passive candidates through various methods and tools, including networking, search tools, job boards, referrals, events, etc. Use your creativity!
• Partner with hiring managers to make offers and effectively hire highly sought after technical talent in a competitive market
• Regularly manage pipeline activity and maintain data integrity, and proactively share data-centric updates with internal stakeholders
• Establish and maintain meaningful relationships with management and key cross-functional stakeholders internally (e.g. Recruiting, HR, Compensation, and Diversity teams)
• Join projects related to employer branding presence and strategy

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree