Technical Recruiter

About Motion

Project management systems today are great at letting companies record their tasks, but place all of the burden on human project coordinators. These tools don’t know about the team’s time and resources and don’t have any intelligence — someone has to manually match tasks against their assumptions about the team’s capacity. Not only does this process waste precious company resources, it’s also error-prone and leads to overwork, missed deadlines, miscommunication, and micromanagement.

Motion is building the world’s most advanced project management system — one that doesn’t require a project coordinator manually tracking each task, but rather an intelligent system that can make sense of hundreds of tasks across dozens of projects and automatically coordinate them across every person on the team. Motion allows companies to focus on the work they need to do rather than wasting up to 50% of their resources on overhead.

Our users give us data on their workload (e.g. projects and tasks) and resources (employee roles, calendars, and schedules). Based on all this information, Motion makes intelligent decisions about how tasks should be executed — better than any human project coordinator. Teams that use Motion know what people are working on at any given time, when each task will be completed, and whether any tasks will fall behind schedule. The moment something changes, instead of the coordinator having to figure out all the cascading effects, Motion instantly creates a new optimized plan for the team.

Motion is the project management system of the future. We are growing extremely quickly, trusted by thousands of customers, have millions in revenue, near-infinite runway, and an exceptionally talented team.

Location: North America (remote)

Compensation: $115k-$150k base salary, plus equity compensation

About the Hiring Manager

Hi, I’m Ethan, Motion’s co-Founder. I truly believe that exceptional companies are built by exceptional teams, and at Motion I’m trying to build the most talented team that’s ever been assembled. Before starting Motion, I began my career as a software engineer at WhatsApp and Facebook, where I saw firsthand how tiny teams can achieve outsized outcomes and learned how great tech companies operate at scale. I was a consultant at McKinsey, where I learned about business and operational best practices. Then, I joined the world of quantitative trading at Citadel and DRW, where I learned to compete in the world’s most competitive profession, and helped start a new trading desk. These experiences taught me a lot about what world-class teams and operations look like, and when I started Motion I wanted to build something even greater.

At Motion, I've worn many hats. For the first 3 years, my main job was writing code, and to this day I’m still involved with engineering and data science. I've led our world-class marketing and support operations. But what I am most proud of is how I hired most of our 60 employees, which ranged from closing execs over months of conversations to doing first round interviews for entry level positions. My philosophy is that I don't hire someone unless I fully believe that I can offer the best opportunity for their career, and I've turned away great candidates because we weren't the right fit for them at the time. The standard I hold for myself is: "how does a new employee reporting to me going to be the best thing that ever happened to their career?" If you work for me, you'll never have another manager who cares about advancing your career as much as I do.

I believe Motion is at a pivotal moment in its trajectory. Revenue is growing, the product roadmap is clear, it’s starting to feel like we're “winning”, and we're accelerating our hiring plans. This will inevitably cause growing pains, and it’s my mission to help Motion navigate this next phase smoothly. How can we accelerate hiring without lowering the bar for candidates? How can a larger team collaborate without becoming inefficient or misaligned? How do we keep the urgency and not become complacent after raising a large round of funding? How do we create a great brand for our company so that great candidates come to us? These are the problems I’m looking for a partner to help me solve. Along the way, I will teach you everything I know about building an exceptional business, and we will have a great adventure together.

About The Role

I’m hiring a Technical Recruiter who will work closely with me to build the engineering team at Motion. You will lead our efforts in hiring, people operations, and setting company culture. I’ve worked hard to ensure Motion’s team is one of the highest talent-density teams in the world, and you’ll be responsible for maintaining and even improving our culture of excellence as we grow. As the first technical recruiter at Motion, you'll be partnering closely with the founders and Head of Engineering to learn how we think about the business, and have the opportunity to grow into a leadership role in Talent Acquisition & People Operations.

You will be successful at Motion if:

• You’re ambitious and you’re looking to prove yourself. For most people, this role will give you the most responsibilities you’ve ever had, while holding you to higher standards than other companies you’ve worked at. Expect to work your hardest and do the best work of your career at Motion. You will receive lots of coaching and feedback that you should seek to grow from

• You are a fast learner and can quickly familiarize yourself with a complex business and product. You don’t get lost in the weeds in details that don’t matter. You don’t need every edge case spelled out for you because you can figure out the goals of the project and fill in the blanks

• You are relentlessly curious in your search for extraordinary talent. Rather than simply matching candidates to a checklist of qualifications, embrace an inquisitive mindset that seeks out unique skills and experiences. For truly exceptional candidates, each person is a special case and they don't fit to a rubric

• You're obsessive about team building. You can empathize with others, know how to motivate them, fight for new opportunities for them, can gain their trust and respect, while being firm and pushing back when they’re being unreasonable

• You are quantitative and can write (simple) code. I personally believe it's extremely important to be able to speak the same language as engineers, and that you cannot truly evaluate engineering talent without the proper context. You will be given a simple coding exercise during the interview process to verify this point

About Your Background

We’re looking for someone with 1-5 years of professional experience in talent acquisition or business development. Experience in startups, consulting or finance, and/or MBA may be helpful, but we are open to considering any candidate who believes they are a good fit based on the success criteria above

Motion is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities. We do not discriminate based on gender identity, race, ancestry, disability, religion, sexual orientation, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We welcome and encourage all qualified candidates to apply for our job openings. 

Helpful Links:

How Motion Operates: https://motionapp.notion.site/How-Motion-Operates-1331471137eb8011b9d7f4064af7e505

Motion Culture: https://motionapp.notion.site/Motion-Company-Culture-21bd766b1f864764b0db2fa72529b182

https://www.usemotion.com