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Summary
As a Hiring Specialist / Lead for cFactual, you will create and implement recruitment strategies within leading, high-impact client organizations, while actively contributing to cFactual's growth via internal hiring. We are excited about adding one or more experienced hiring professionals to our team, as we are seeing strong demand for senior hiring support in the EA and AI safety communities. For the Hiring Lead role, we are looking for an entrepreneurial, highly experienced (3+ years) hiring professional who can run hiring rounds independently and build a business within a business. We are also interested in employing a junior Hiring Specialist (1-2 years’ experience), who will mainly focus on running hiring rounds. Both roles will work closely with our Executive Director, Jona Glade, and our operations team.
We are excited for our Hiring Lead or Specialist to join us permanently, but we also invite interested candidates to apply to our 3–6 month fellowship program. Fellows spend 70-90% of their time doing value-adding client or cFactual work, while the rest of their time is reserved for upskilling and career exploration (e.g., one-on-one coaching sessions, goal-setting exercises, introductions to experts in the field, or self-directed learning through recommended EA resources and literature). You can find more information about the fellowship here.
- Our vision is a maximally flourishing world
- Our mission is to help impact-oriented organizations and individuals navigate critical periods and pivotal decisions
- Our comparative advantage is that
- We are the only organization that focuses on executive-level questions and decisions across organizations from an EA perspective
- We have the flexibility to support organizations during pivotal times
- Our services include ad hoc support, full-time research, regular coaching, sparring, and red teaming, as well as executional support in the following areas:
- Leadership and board support
- Regular operations
- Developing organizational goals, plans, theories of change, impact measurement, and risk management strategies
- Facilitating executive and organization-wide reflection, prioritization, and planning rhythms
- Improving important organizational decisions by structuring processes (such as goal-setting and impact measurement) and preparing decision-relevant information
- Auditing leadership teams, boards, and CEO performance
- Providing red teaming and leadership coaching
- Pivotal times
- Scoping and launching high-potential projects and organizations
- Supporting organizations with scaling and hiring
- Assisting with spin-outs, reorganizations, and other significant transformative initiatives
- Helping organizations navigate crises
- Structuring and managing high-stakes projects
- Family office support
- We are currently assessing the potential to create philanthropic or comprehensive strategies for family offices (in addition to the services mentioned above)
- You can find more information regarding cFactual’s services, client examples, and credentials here
- We’re a distributed team, with current staff based in the US, Germany, and Austria. Our team includes highly experienced leaders such as Jona Glade (co-founder of cFactual and the Effective Altruism Consulting Network (now Consultants for Impact), former Boston Consulting Group consultant), Abraham Rowe (former COO of Rethink Priorities), and Tim Shavers (former Global Director of Strategy & Innovation at McKinsey and Company)
- We are a small but growing team; we currently employ 2 full-time staff, 4 fellows, and several contractors
About the role
We are excited about either building out a hiring offering as part of cFactual or creating an entirely new hiring agency, if we conclude that that would lead to better outcomes for the world. For the Hiring Lead role, we are looking for an entrepreneurial, highly experienced (3+ years) hiring professional who can run hiring rounds independently and build a business within a business. We are also interested in adding junior hiring specialists (1-2 years experience) to fill the Hiring Specialist role, which will be mainly focused on running external (for client organizations) and internal (at cFactual) hiring rounds. All hiring roles will involve working closely with our Executive Director, Jona Glade, and our operations team.
We are excited to hire people to join us permanently or to complete a fellowship, where fellows spend 70-90% of their time doing value-adding client or cFactual work and have the rest of their time for upskilling and career exploration. This option is available to both Hiring Lead and Hiring Specialist candidates. You can find more information about the fellowship here.
Tasks and Responsibilities
Please note that these details will vary based on seniority and comparative advantage.
- Client Work
- Work directly with leading, high-impact organizations on projects such as:
- Recruiting for critical roles, such as executives and senior staff
- Developing and implementing effective hiring strategies
- Conducting candidate searches, screenings, and interviews
- Examples of previous hiring rounds that team members have run include searches for a CEO, board members, founders, Heads of Events, and a Director of HR. Additionally, we are currently running hiring processes for numerous leadership roles (including CEO, COO, and Chief of Staff) at newly launched, impact-focused foundations
- Improving External Hiring Services
- Hiring Lead: Lead the development and marketing of hiring services offered by cFactual
- Help cFactual improve its hiring services by exploring new potential offerings and working with clients to define projects that best meet their hiring needs
- Improve cFactual’s internal talent database and make other improvements to our hiring infrastructure