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About Gro:

Gro Intelligence is tackling two of the biggest problems facing the world today: food security and climate change. We understand and quantify the complex interplay between food, weather, trade, agriculture, and macroeconomic conditions in a world upended by climate change, a growing population, and more. The team at Gro has built a platform that allows businesses, non-profits, and governments to better plan for and adapt to these changes. With offices in both Nairobi and New York, Gro has the financial backing of prominent investors such as TPG Growth, Intel Capital, Data Collective, and GGV. Gro is a diverse, intellectually curious team of technologists, scientists, and business professionals united by a shared commitment to build AI that addresses agriculture, food, and our climate on the most fundamental level.

What You'll Do:

• Conduct full lifecycle recruiting; sourcing, pre-screening, interviewing, hiring
• Deliver a best in class candidate experience
• Work across functions; convey and share information, feedback, and ideas with others clearly and concisely
• Serve as a thought partner to hiring managers while remaining hands-on and willing to get into the nitty gritty
• Keep track of recruiting metrics including sourcing, time-to-hire, cost-of-hire, etc and provide leadership with relevant data and analytics
• Manage headhunter relationships
• Implement new sourcing methods (e.g. social recruiting and Boolean searches)
• Assess and update current recruiting procedures and design new ones as needed, including application processes, onboarding, etc
• Research and choose new job advertising options and manage all job postings
• Advise hiring managers on interviewing techniques and providing feedback; suggest training as needed
• Equip the team with recruiting best practices
• Support our strategic recruiting initiatives as they come; internships, events, etc

What We're Looking For:

• Candidates should have prior full life-cycle recruiting experience at an agency or in-house 
• Experience with technology hiring a plus
• Experience in a collaborative, fast-paced environment
• Proven ability to manage a number of processes at once; client-oriented
• Experience with Applicant Tracking Systems and HR databases
• Experience with interviewing, candidate screening, and evaluation
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; strong management skills
• Strong decision-making skills; sound judgment

Potential for temp to perm!

Perks:

Gro was founded in 2014 and currently has offices in Nairobi and New York City. The company was built on diversity and the knowledge that artificial intelligence is only as good as the human intelligence behind it. Gro’s team represents the world it is modeling. At the company, we speak more than 27 languages and we comprise a wide range of experts, from agronomists and crop scientists, to mathematicians, engineers, data scientists, market research analysts, designers, historians, and philosophers. Our culture fosters collaboration between people of extremely different backgrounds that allows us to accomplish things that would otherwise seem impossible. 

Gro Intelligence is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants regardless of color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, actual or presumed belonging to an ethnic group, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.