Technical Recruiter at Heyzap in San Francisco, CA

Heyzap is growing amazingly fast! We need someone to take charge of our recruiting and bring our team to the next level. With a serious growth curve ahead of us, we need to ensure that our team continues to employ the best and brightest candidates out there. That’s where you come in.

As our Technical Recruiter, you'll have already nurtured some of the world’s fastest-growing companies into powerhouses full of Tier A talent. You will be Heyzap’s guru for everything employment related, whether it be attracting a superb engineer or finding the best salesperson on the planet. We’ve reached this stage by creating a tightly-knit, extremely talented squad, and we need a recruiter who can take us to the next level while having fun with the rest of the team.

About Us:

• Heyzap is the largest mobile gaming community on Android and iPhone, helping millions of people discover mobile games and connect with friends or fellow gamers.
• Located in the heart of San Francisco, we are funded by top tier investors (Y Combinator and Union Square Ventures) and we have a super fast growing user base.
• In just 6 months, millions of users have downloaded our app and we are growing by over 50% every month.
• Heyzap powers millions of game discoveries every month for our users, with over hundreds of thousands of check-ins per day.
• Heyzap connects millions of game players together every month.
• We are a small, agile team and release code to production continuously. We use kick-ass modern technologies like node.js, MongoDB and Redis, or whatever the appropriate tool is to help us get shit done™.
• We work with the biggest game developers in the industry such as Digital Chocolate (Millionaire City), Pocket Gems (Tap Zoo), Zynga and Get Set Games (Megajump).

• You have grown teams in technical start-ups from 20 to over 100.
• You can write captivating job postings. Hopefully better than this one.
• You can find Tier A candidates.
• You can screen for technical hires.
• You can create innovative benefit packages.
• You can break from normal recruiting procedure to close the top candidates.
• You understand the technical requirements for web/mobile products and the necessary experience a Tier A candidates require.
• You’re sheer presence attracts the brightest people. Like unicorns are attracted to rainbows.
• Take a transcendental approach to hiring from the ground up.

• Make Heyzap is the most exciting place to work in Silicon Valley.
• Create an aggressive recruitment strategy.
• Full life cycle recruitment for technical candidates.
• Construct job postings that are interesting and unique.
• Find unleveraged channels for hiring
• Interview and filter candidates.
• Attract talent to Heyzap
• Build a culture around hiring the best people.
• Proactively predict future employee needs and act on them to reduce company growing pains.
• Create benefits packages that employees want.

• Must be able to work onsite in San Francisco.
• Previous experience growing technical start-ups to over 100 employees.
• Must be able to understand technical requirements of web and mobile engineering.
• Can effectively communicate the benefits of Heyzap to candidates.
• Can communicate with management about top candidates.
• Exposure to HR responsibilities - i.e employment law and immigration.
• Outstanding achievements throughout undergraduate degree.
• Positive, problem solving attitude.
• Understanding of recruiting best practices in other top tier Silicon Valley companies.
• Can multitask in a fast paced environment.
• Team player attitude and a huge sense of fun.
• Leadership.
• A 'go get it' attitude with the ability to take initiative.

• Mobile hiring experience

• Equity, receive a meaningful stake in the company.
• An exciting and challenging work environment.
• Fun team events. Last time we went indoor skydiving.
• Team iMax film viewings.
• The best gaming industry parties.
• Free lunches (there is such a thing at Heyzap). Dinners if you are working late. Snacks and drinks in the office.
• Book budget and large existing library.
• Focus on education and self improvement.
• Comfy aeron chair and power setup.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision insurance.
• Unlimited Xbox, Wii, Foosball, latest 3D game technology and consoles.
• Commuter benefits.
• 401k