[Hiring] Talent Producer (Sourcer)

Efficient and process-oriented; can manage multiple workstreams at once
Skilled at finding mission-aligned SMEs who want to be a part of what we’re building
Effective at motivating and inspiring SMEs to work with Exponent
Excellent at evaluating SME talent potential for video
Holds high-quality standards and is attentive to detail
Comfortable with ambiguity and taking the lead on filling in gaps
Highly collaborative
Quick learner of new topics
Thoughtfully opinionated
Strong, proactive communicator

Own SME/partner pipeline from sourcing to onboarding/hand-off in partnership with content (Nick and Kevin) and ops team (Leah)
Work with content team to identify SME needs, conduct outreach, and recruit and coordinate with SMEs to produce high-quality content, e.g. find Data Scientists who work at XYZ companies to share their interview experience with us and help schedule their interview.
Help us further refine and craft our ideal SME profiles and personas
Streamline and manage SME and partner recruitment various channels, e.g. active channels: contributor board, coach candidates; passive channels: tap into Exponent Slack, embed into existing graduation flow, coaching students/customers, email listserv, ask for referrals, etc
Document and report out funnel progress + metrics to enable quicker learnings and iterative approaches to SME management

About Exponent
Exponent helps people land their dream tech jobs. We've built an all-in-one interview preparation platform with written and video courses, peer-to-peer practice tools, and insider knowledge of tech’s most challenging interview questions. We’re a profitable, bootstrapped startup of 10 full-time team members, and are looking for incredible operators to help us continue growing.

We’ve helped 1M+ product managers, software engineers, technical program managers, product designers, solutions architects, data scientists, machine learning engineers, and more in their interviews at Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and hundreds of other popular tech companies. We also partner with top universities, including Stanford, Yale, Duke, MIT, and more, to help students get great jobs after graduation.

Learn more about us on our website, YouTube channel, and blog.

About the role
We're looking for a skilled talent producer with excellent project management experience who's excited about taking on ownership in a startup environment to help find and bring on subject-matter-experts to help us create educational content at scale. At Exponent, we value first-hand experiences from both the candidate and interviewer side to create our content.

Your main responsibility will be a) sourcing, b) qualifying, and c) scheduling talent.

This includes doing cold outreach, managing inbound pipelines, vetting expertise, and helping us build out a robust subject matter expert (SME) and partnership ecosystem. SMEs and partners in this case are expert tech professionals who are great on video and would love to give back their knowledge.

In your first three months, you’ll own and scale up our SME and partner onboarding from 10-15 per quarter to 30-50 per quarter, which will help fuel Exponent’s largest organic growth drivers: our interview guides and blog.

Attributes that will make you successful in this role:

Efficient and process-oriented; can manage multiple workstreams at once
Skilled at finding mission-aligned SMEs who want to be a part of what we’re building
Effective at motivating and inspiring SMEs to work with Exponent
Excellent at evaluating SME talent potential for video
Holds high-quality standards and is attentive to detail
Comfortable with ambiguity and taking the lead on filling in gaps
Highly collaborative
Quick learner of new topics
Thoughtfully opinionated
Strong, proactive communicator
Responsibilities
Own SME/partner pipeline from sourcing to onboarding/hand-off in partnership with content (Nick and Kevin) and ops team (Leah)
Work with content team to identify SME needs, conduct outreach, and recruit and coordinate with SMEs to produce high-quality content, e.g. find Data Scientists who work at XYZ companies to share their interview experience with us and help schedule their interview.
Help us further refine and craft our ideal SME profiles and personas
Streamline and manage SME and partner recruitment various channels, e.g. active channels: contributor board, coach candidates; passive channels: tap into Exponent Slack, embed into existing graduation flow, coaching students/customers, email listserv, ask for referrals, etc
Document and report out funnel progress + metrics to enable quicker learnings and iterative approaches to SME management
Your key performance indicators
Partner output.’ How many SMEs have we brought on + successfully contributed to content?
Partner quality. Are we bringing on SMEs that fit our needs and provide valuable insights?
Pipeline efficiency. Are we improving our end-to-end SME pipelines from source to conversion?

Working at Exponent
This role is part-time at 10-20 hours per week to start. Payroll is processed monthly.