About Charge

Charge Robotics is a Series A startup building robots that build solar farms.

Demand for new solar projects is booming (1/5th of all the solar that exists in the US was installed last year!), but today’s construction companies can’t keep up due to limited labor resources.

We thought this was insane, so we started working on robots to directly address this bottleneck and speed up the world’s transition to renewables.

Charge is a fast-moving company which means constant opportunities for learning and growth. You’ll have a large impact on the direction of our company and our product, which will be reflected in significant equity compensation. And you get to work with 🤖 giant robots 🤖.

If you are excited to work on interesting technical problems with direct climate impact, you’re going to fit right in at Charge Robotics.

About the role

As the Lead Recruiter at Charge Robotics and founding member of our people & talent function, you’ll take critical ownership of recruiting, work with the team to create an excellent pipeline of candidates, and deliver a standout interview, hiring, and onboarding experience. You'll be substantially responsible for growing our passionate and amazing team as we work together to transform the solar industry.

What you will do

Build our talent function and recruiting processes from scratch

Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, from sourcing and screening to negotiating and closing

Be a strategic partner to hiring managers across the company, collaborating on candidate strategy and ensuring that hiring goals are met in a timely manner with top-tier candidates

Create a positive, seamless, and fair candidate experience

Initially lead employee onboarding until we can grow into a larger people function

Report to and collaborate closely with our founder/CEO

Be the face of Charge Robotics and help us build a stellar employer brand

You'll be successful in this role if you

Are excited and motivated to personally play a role in mitigating climate change

Have 5+ years of experience doing full-cycle recruiting for technical roles

Have excellent verbal and written communication skills

Have superb negotiation and relationship management skills

Are detail-oriented with a ruthless ability to prioritize

Have a metrics-driven mindset, leveraging data to understand pipeline health and improve velocity, quality, retention

Believe in treating all people with dignity and respect, regardless of title or tenure

Are proficient in ATS and other HR technologies to support data-driven decision-making and process optimization. A few tools that we use: Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, Gusto

Enjoy working in a fast-paced, in-person startup environment

Are based in or can relocate to the SF Bay Area, and able to work ~4 days/week from our San Leandro HQ

It’d also be nice if you

Are passionate about and knowledgeable of robotics

Have hired across software and hardware engineering roles

Have experience building out a people function for a small and rapidly growing team, incl. owning recruiting-adjacent processes like onboarding, brand-building, or HR

Are excited to see our robots deployed onto actual solar farms!