Principal Technical Recruiter

Job Overview: Coupang is one of the largest and fastest growing e-commerce platforms on the planet.

Our vision is to create a world in which Customers ask, “How did I ever live without Coupang?” We are looking for passionate builders to help us get there.

Powered by world-class technology and operations, we have set out to transform the end-to-end Customer experience from revolutionizing last-mile delivery to rethinking how Customers search and discover on a truly mobile-first platform.

We have been named one of the “50 Smartest Companies in the World” by MIT Technology Review and “30 Global Game Changers” by Forbes.

Coupang is a global company with offices in Seoul, Seattle, Mountain View, Los Angeles, Beijing, and Shanghai.

Our Recruiters play a critical role in driving our phenomenal growth by identifying and hiring top talent.

As a Principal Recruiter, you will manage a portfolio of positions and act as a strategic partner to the organization.

You will also function as an ambassador, championing Coupang’s Leadership Principles and corporate culture.

You will design and execute sourcing strategies to match business needs, and assess candidates, increasing the talent competitiveness of Coupang, while managing/improving client engagement and the overall recruiting process.

Key Responsibilities: Recruit talent for Coupang’s rapidly expanding business by engaging with candidates, gathering market intelligence, communicating insights, influencing stakeholders, and driving best practices across our recruitment organization.

Acquire an in-depth knowledge of the business area for which you are recruiting.

Communicate candidate information and market intelligence to all relevant stakeholders in a timely and systematic way, ensuring exact job and candidate’s requirements are understood and ensure hiring strategy is aligned with business strategy.

Employ a data-driven approach to recruiting, understanding targets, and achieving hiring objectives.

Build close relationships with Hiring Managers, key stakeholders, interviewers, Recruitment and HR partners.

Improve the recruitment process by reviewing data and scenarios and suggesting ideas for change.

Enhance candidate experience by understanding candidate and stakeholder needs, then responding to challenging situations in a timely fashion.

Effectively source and deliver high-caliber talent to the business to achieve hiring goals; screening candidates with respect to their motivators, qualifications, skills, and availability relative to the requirements before submittal to hiring managers.

Follow our Recruitment SOP to ensure consistency and compliance, using Greenhouse to record all candidate related activity and provide weekly reports on key data points to all levels of management, moving candidates through the interview process, providing appropriate feedback where required.

Lead and participate at interview pre-brief meetings and facilitate job scoping discussions.

Required Qualifications and Capabilities: Bachelor’s degree with transferrable skills and knowledge.

7+ years of experience in client-facing recruiting roles.

Ability to solve problems through creative thinking and partnerships with other teams.

Ability to attain challenging targets through goal-setting and personal drive.

Ability to drive consensus between stakeholders through skilled communication.

Preferred Experience: Experience recruiting within a pre-IPO start-up environment.

General understanding of business operations across key areas such as Product Engineering/Logistics/e-Commerce/Finance/HR/Legal.

Experience hiring talent as an interviewer or a hiring manager.

Coupang is an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race (including traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hair styles), color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding as well as gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, transgender status), national origin (including language use restrictions), age, disability, medical condition, HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C status, marital status, military or veteran status, use of a trained dog guide or service animal, political activities or affiliations, ancestry, citizenship, family and medical leave status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking or any other characteristic or class protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application of recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at usrecruiting@coupang.com .

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