Talent Partner

Ivo Inc.•San Francisco, CA

1d•$75,000 - $120,000•Onsite

About The Position

Ivo is hiring an early-career Talent Partner to support the company’s aggressive growth and help build its Talent team. The role partners with business leaders to make strong hiring decisions, carries leadership’s standards and goals into searches, and shares market insights with hiring teams. The position begins with a focus on sourcing and can grow into ownership of full searches from intake through close. The Talent Partner sources candidates for go-to-market and technical roles, clarifies business needs with hiring managers, assesses candidates consistently, and guides the hiring process while advocating for candidates. The role also includes offer negotiation, maintaining accurate records in Ashby, providing proactive updates, supporting recruiting events, and delivering a polished, timely candidate experience.

Requirements

1–3 years of experience in recruiting, sourcing, agency recruiting, sales/SDR, or another role involving hunting, persuasion, and meeting a target.
Strong sourcing ability and enthusiasm for finding candidates for challenging roles.
Enjoys negotiation and understanding the priorities of both sides.
Polished communication skills and professionalism with candidates and leaders.
Strong organization and attention to detail, including maintaining accurate pipelines and timely updates.
Highly competitive, with a drive to improve and meet a high performance bar.
Strong work ethic, intensity, and sense of urgency.
Highly coachable and persistent in learning new skills.
Curiosity about how the business works, makes money, and uses each role.
Service-oriented, takes ownership, follows through independently, and raises problems early.
High standards for personal work and the work of others.
Resourceful, willing to solve problems directly, and comfortable working without anyone to delegate to.
Excited by the challenge of building a company.

Responsibilities

Build candidate pipelines for go-to-market and technical roles by mapping talent markets, identifying candidates, writing outreach, and testing sourcing channels.
Prepare for intake meetings, clarify business needs, and match those needs to relevant skills and candidates.
Advise hiring managers and leaders, share market observations and recruiting data, and raise concerns such as mis-scoped roles, compensation bands, or sourcing gaps.
Screen and assess candidates against job expectations, document assessment reasoning, and calibrate hiring profiles and sourcing strategies.
Own each step of the hiring process, communicate risks and opportunities to hiring managers, and advocate for candidates’ time and dignity.
Close candidates and negotiate offers by understanding candidate priorities and building conviction.
Deliver a timely, clear, and respectful candidate experience, including communicating status, next steps, and timelines.
Keep candidate records, stages, notes, statuses, and next steps current in Ashby.
Stay informed about assigned searches, hiring-manager priorities, and talent markets, and provide regular proactive updates to hiring teams.
Represent Ivo professionally in candidate conversations, help run recruiting events, and build relationships for future hiring.