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Salary: USD 120,000 - 160,000 / annual
Favorited is building a digital community platform that empowers creators by enhancing audience participation and fostering deeper connections through gaming and interactive features.
You will serve as a dual-function Recruiter & People Operations professional, splitting your time between talent acquisition and people operations to support the company's growth. This is a hands-on role in a fast-moving startup environment where you'll wear multiple hats and help establish foundational systems.
RECRUITING RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Own the full recruiting lifecycle from intake through offer, partnering with hiring managers across engineering, product, design, marketing, operations, and other functions.
- Source, identify, interview, and engage high-quality candidates through proactive sourcing, networking, and creative recruiting strategies.
- Build strong candidate pipelines and develop deep understanding of Favorited's culture, roles, and technical/creative needs.
- Manage candidate communication and ensure a high-quality candidate experience.
- Partner with leadership on hiring plans, priorities, and recruiting strategy.
- Help build and continuously improve recruiting processes, tools, interview structures, and candidate evaluation frameworks.
PEOPLE OPERATIONS RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Own day-to-day people operations and employee lifecycle processes including onboarding, offboarding, employee changes, and internal documentation.
- Build scalable processes and systems that support employees as the company grows.
- Maintain accurate employee records and people-related systems.
- Partner with leadership on employee engagement, team health, and company culture initiatives.
- Support benefits administration and serve as a resource for employee questions.
- Help develop and maintain company policies, processes, and internal resources.
- Coordinate with external HR, payroll, benefits, legal, and other people-related partners.
- Identify and implement opportunities to improve the employee experience.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 3–8 years of experience in recruiting, people operations, HR, or a combination of these functions.
- Experience recruiting for consumer-focused technology companies, ideally startups.
- Strong recruiting experience across technical and/or product-oriented roles.
- Strong organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and keep processes moving in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong relationship-building skills and ability to build trust with candidates, employees, and leadership.
- Highly proactive and comfortable taking ownership of problems without waiting for direction.
- Ability to operate with discretion and sound judgment when handling confidential information.
- Experience building or improving people processes in an environment where systems and infrastructure are still evolving.
- Passion for gaming, consumer products, social media, or livestreaming and understanding of the communities that surround them.
STANDOUT QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience at a startup or high-growth consumer technology company.
- Recruiting experience for engineering, product, design, or other specialized roles.
- Understanding of the gaming, livestreaming, creator, or social media ecosystem.
- Experience building recruiting or people operations processes from the ground up.
- Comfort operating across candidate, executive, and operational problem-solving contexts.
- Strong instincts for company culture and ability to help build high-performing environments.
