Recruiting Strategy & Operations Director

About Spacecurve

Spacecurve is a new kind of venture capital company that directly builds products, scouts talent, and leads operations together with our portfolio companies. Our mission is to create 10x improved product experiences and marketing strategies compared to competitors. Join our tight-knit teams of elite designers, engineers, marketers, and executors to make a real difference in the next generation of consumer products.

Role Overview

Spearhead recruiting strategy and operations across our portfolio companies (industrial design, software, fashion, ecommerce, and more) by crafting effective recruiting strategies, managing talent pipelines, and maintaining a network of elite recruiters to attract and onboard top talent in fast-paced startup environments. This is a rare chance to work with an ambitious team of executors who are on a mission to create and offer superior product experiences across industries.

The essential differentiating factor for this role will be your ability to quickly understand the unique needs of a given field and then solve their problem as fast as possible, all while you make sure that hired talent and onboarded recruiters are truly elite. In addition, we look for the ability to be hyper aware of problems in the hiring pipeline that keep us from attracting or onboarding top talent and to correct these problems swiftly.

Key Responsibilities

• Skillfully lead recruiting strategy and operations across our four portfolio companies

• Craft and advise on effective recruiting strategies together with teams and leads

• Craft clear and emotive job descriptions together with teams and leads

• Manage our centralized ATS and all external job boards

• Screen incoming applications and arrange or conduct interviews

• Work with internal and external recruiters to execute the hiring strategies you created

• Maintain a network of the best recruiters the market has to offer

• Directly hunt talent when you have the capacity for it

• Accompany applicants all the way to onboarding

• Identify personal needs of all teams and make sure they’re met before it’s too late

• Set up lean and effective recruiting processes and constantly improve them

• Identify and correct problems in the hiring pipeline that keep us from attracting or onboarding top talent

• Lead our talent marketing efforts to make sure we attract the best even when we’re not actively searching

Skills & Qualifications

• Attention to detail and efficient communication are key

• You must be comfortable working autonomously in with fast-paced, unpredictable startup environments

• Superior proven ability to distinguish top talent among candidates and recruiters, regardless of field and industry

• Superior proven ability to style and write emotive texts and documents for the purpose of hiring and talent marketing

• Superior ability to communicate with humans and establishing trustful relationships

• Successful track record of effectively managing a network of top recruiters is required

• Successful track record of directly hunting and onboarding top talent is required

• Experience hiring brick and mortar shop staff is a huge plus

• Experience driving successful talent marketing initiatives is a huge plus

Why join us

• We will provide you with all the tools and opportunities necessary to make a direct, meaningful and long-lasting impact on the legacy of our brands and the future of the design industry

• You will be part of a high-trust community that encourages risk-taking, experimentation and innovation

• You will be working alongside ambitious creatives and executors from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines

Example Project: PSY LIVING (codename)

“This is not just a furniture brand, and not just a fashion brand. We’re a next-generation product and storytelling company with the aim to make the world much more fun” – Jannik Wambsganss, CEO

We develop a new brand universe to reinvent the “home experience” with unique design and advanced technology at a luxury price point, while offering globally recognized fashion collections at a more accessible price point. Our otherworldly furniture designs provide daily inspiration at home, while our fashion program offers colorful yet refined garments to extend the brand outside the home.

Through immersive storytelling and innovative branding strategies, we build a universe that feels optimistic and free of limiting beliefs. We want people to wake up in the morning and look forward to an exciting new day where infinity is in the palm of their hands. This message is encoded into every single one of our products.

Our products are made in Japan as much as possible and sold direct-to-consumer online and at our Tokyo flagship store, with one in New York opening soon after. Our vision is to operate a world-class manufacturing floor in central Tokyo with an adjacent store and cafe lounge from where guests can overlook production. We hope to energize visitors by letting them participate in our process of making things.

Orion Facey, our Creative Director, has achieved notable creative output in the fashion, art, and industrial design world. Together with Jannik Wambsganss, our CEO and Lead Investor, they form a determined and effective team with the mission to find the best designers, engineers, and marketers, and create a new class of products together.