Recruiting Lead Job at Softermii in Los Angeles

Join Softermii as a Recruiting Lead to complement our team and expand our expertise in talent acquisition. We are actively growing, working on exciting international projects, and seeking a leader who can effectively build recruitment processes, develop the team, and ensure high-quality talent acquisition.

About The Company

Softermii is an outsourcing/outstaffing company with more than 11 years of experience in web and mobile application development with a team of more than 120 specialists from 6 countries. We have withstood multiple challenges and have secured sustainable development processes, saved all our projects and jobs, and are constantly growing.

We develop solutions in the following areas of expertise:

• Healthcare
• Real estate
• Livestream E-commerce
• Fintech (Wealth Tech, Capital Trading)
• Real Time Communications (RTC)

Company Mission

Softermii: Succeed Without (L)imitations. We will turn any idea into a valuable product.

Our Plans As a Company

We want to move from a regular outsourcing business to an ecosystem of outsourcing, education, and product development companies. We have arrived at a highly personalized working model with transparent workflows, allowing us to create software products that meet our clients’ goals with precision.

Your Responsibilities Will Be

• Strategic & Operational Leadership: Build and execute the recruiting strategy based on company and recruitment OKRs.
• Lead the Recruiting Office with a focus on performance, process efficiency, and continuous improvement.
• Develop and implement internal recruitment policies, processes, documentation, and quality standards.
• Drive the achievement of KPIs: time-to-hire, cost-per-hire, offer acceptance rate, first 90-day success rate, etc.
• Analyze recruitment analytics and provide strategic insights and adjustments.

Team Management & Development

• Lead, mentor, and coach recruiters and researchers.
• Conduct daily team syncs, regular feedback sessions, and monthly retrospectives.
• Oversee onboarding, development planning, probation reviews, and performance tracking of team members.
• Approve vacations, sick leaves, and manage escalations and retention efforts within the Recruiting Office.
• Identify training needs and ensure continuous learning through courses, meetups, certifications, etc.

Process Ownership

• Participate in vacancy kick-off calls with clients and delivery teams.
• Manage full-cycle recruitment for priority roles.
• Prioritize and assign vacancies to team members based on workload and experience.
• Ensure proper use of recruitment tools to maximize pipeline efficiency.
• Standardize workflows, interview scorecards, and reporting templates.
• Regularly review hiring performance and adapt recruitment strategy accordingly.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

• Align hiring timelines with delivery capacity forecasts and sales input.
• Represent the recruitment team during client syncs where hiring performance is discussed.
• Provide weekly and monthly reports.

Our Requirements To You

• 6+ years of experience in IT recruitment, including at least 2+ years in a Team Lead role.
• Experience working in IT outsourcing or outstaffing companies.
• Familiarity with ATS, recruitment analytics, and automation tools.
• Experience conducting performance reviews or retro sessions.
• Proven experience in building recruitment strategies and managing recruiting KPIs.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills (Delivery, Sales, Clients).
• Hands-on experience in sourcing, interviewing, and decision-making.
• Leadership mindset with experience in team mentoring, onboarding, and retention.
• English: Upper-Intermediate or higher.

Desired Technical Skills

• ATS proficiency (Lever, Greenhouse, Recruitee, Zoho Recruit, etc.), including administration, analytics, and process automation.
• Job description creation and optimization, with a focus on value proposition and selling points.
• Recruitment funnel management & optimization, analytics at each stage (CVs → interviews → offers → hires).
• Data-driven recruitment: metrics (time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, source-of-hire, quality-of-hire), setting OKRs/KPIs for the team.
• Advanced sourcing techniques (Boolean Search, GitHub, StackOverflow, Telegram, Discord) and sourcing tools (AmazingHiring, Lusha, CleverStaff).
• Offer management and counteroffer handling.
• HR Tech & AI tools integration into recruitment processes.
• Proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter/Sales Navigator for targeted sourcing and outreach.
• Basic understanding of legal and contractual aspects (B2B, contractor agreements, GDPR, NDA).
• Smooth candidate handoff to onboarding and evaluation of onboarding effectiveness.

Soft Skills

• Team workload planning and prioritization.
• Balancing operational work with strategic initiatives and team development.
• Mentorship: competency assessment, regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and individual development roadmaps.
• Conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, and creating a psychologically safe work environment.
• Presentation and stakeholder communication skills: reporting to HRD, COO, Delivery Leads, or CEO, and participating in hiring strategy discussions.

What We Can Offer You

• Stable and highly-functioning processes.
• Enough independence to make decisions that can affect not only the project but also the work of the company.
• A team of like-minded experts who create interesting products during working hours and enjoy spending free time together.
• 50% payment of the cost of courses/conferences/speaking clubs for professional development.
• Individual development plan and mentoring from seniors and leaders.
• Referral bonus system.
• Insurance and 21 working days off, 11 paid days off for Public Holidays, and 5 sick leaves a year.

A Little More Information That You May Find Useful

• Our adaptation period lasts 3 months.
• Performance review after each year of collaboration using a skills map to track growth.
• Flexible working day.