Portfolio Company Recruiter

Position Overview

Black Dragon Capital seeks a proactive, efficient, and resourceful Recruiter, with private equity and venture capital sector experience to join the firm’s Human Recourses team. This person will play a key role in our overall recruiting process as part of an inclusive, dynamic, and engaging team. We are looking for a successful recruiter who will collaborate with Human Resources, the hiring manager and the Executive Leadership team on a regular basis and proactively identify future hiring needs. To be considered an ideal candidate for this role, you need to have an excellent understanding of hiring across a variety of skill sets, efficient interviewing capabilities and decision-making skills, and great organization and verbal skills. Must be able to thrive in a fast moving and changing environment.

About You

Do you want a rewarding job that will change peoples’ lives? Are you an energetic recruiter who has the drive to help people develop, and connect their skills to meaningful work? You will need to have a strong working knowledge of private equity and venture capital firms, financial & technical roles, SaaS sales, as well as in-depth knowledge of the recruitment process. You should have a knack for seeking people out and analyzing character on the spot. Then this is the role for you.

Responsibilities

• Source candidates using a variety of search methods to build a robust candidate pipeline.
• Screen candidates by reviewing resumes and job applications and performing phone screenings.
• Evaluate applicants by discussing job requirements and applicant qualifications with managers.
• Conduct initial interviews, maintaining accurate candidate notes and rating scales.
• Provide analytical and well-documented recruiting reports to the team.
• Take ownership of candidate experience by designing and managing job postings, and position requirements.
• Demonstrated experience providing candidate assessments as necessary.
• Arrange management interviews by coordinate schedules, and any required travel arrangements.
• Perform reference checks as need.
• Stay abreast of recruiting trends and best practices.
• Manage the overall job posting, interview and selection process, ensuring all screening, and selection is done in accordance with company policies, employment laws and regulations.
  
  

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience with full life cycle recruiting in an investment or private equity -focused environment or staffing firm supporting financial services clients.
• MUST have private equity and venture capital experience - FinTech recruiting experience preferred.
• Prior experience working for a search firm, coupled with investment experience is preferred.
• Proven ability to creatively recommend sourcing strategies utilizing job boards, associations, employee referral programs, social media and internet searches.
• Knowledge of recruiting technology (Boolean search logic, LinkedIn Recruiter, Workday, Outlook, Web, Excel, PowerPoint and Word) preferred
• Demonstrated experience working in a dynamic, high-touch environment.
• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field.
• Solid ability to conduct different types of interviews (structured, competency-based, stress etc.)
• Hands on experience with various selection processes (video interviewing, phone interviewing, reference check etc.)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong decision-making skills.
• Highly organized and detailed with the ability to present to C-suite.
  
  

About Us

Black Dragon Capital LLC (BDC) is a unique growth-oriented private equity firm focused on investing in areas where information technology is enabling the disruption of industries by allowing a faster, better and more economically compelling way to solve industry issues. We seek to benefit from a diverse perspective combined with high performance operating and investment executives. We hire and promote based on merit, without bias, and make a genuine effort to ensure we have a diversified team that aligns with the diversity of our portfolio companies and their clients. We intend to maintain over 65% of our team members as culturally or gender diverse and work hard to foster a supportive and welcoming workplace. Bringing a leadership and advisory group of successful entrepreneurs, former operators and deal making experience, Black Dragon’s team has a track record of building market leading companies, driving above market returns and accelerating growth and profitability through its distribution connections, strategic advice, and active participation within our investments, primarily in financial technologies, eCommerce, and sports and media technology markets.

Location: Remote

About Black Dragon Capital

Black Dragon Capital (“BDC”) is a minority-controlled, growth driven private equity fund created by technology operating executives with a track record of creating market leading companies and an impressive investment return history. We seek to benefit from a diverse perspective combined with high performance operating and investment executives. We hire and promote based on merit, without bias, and make a genuine effort to ensure we have a diversified team that aligns with the diversity of our portfolio companies and their clients. We intend to maintain over 65% of our team members as culturally or gender diverse, and work hard to foster a supportive and welcoming workplace. BDC focuses on the areas where it has direct operating and investment expertise that include technology investment opportunities in industries disrupted by the impact of digitization on individuals, groups and enterprises such as retail commerce, financial services, healthcare, and sports and media. The operationally focused fund has driven above market returns by creating unique sourcing, funding, recruiting, growth and return opportunities.