Talent Acquisition Partner

Job Title: Talent Acquisition Partner
Team: People
Location: Onsite - Sawtelle (Between Santa Monica & West LA)
Employment Type: Full-time, Salary, Exempt
Reports To: VP of HR

About Plug
Plug is the marketplace for used electric vehicles. Consumers get an instant cash offer backed by battery-health data, and dealers across the US bid in real time on that inventory. Former Tesla executives founded Plug in 2023. We’ve facilitated over $150M in EV sales and raised a $20M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Why Plug

• You’ll own a piece of the biggest automotive infrastructure opportunity.

• You’ll work on a platform built exclusively for EVs, with nothing adapted from legacy automotive.

• You’ll be part of an AI-native company. We’re rethinking how work gets done at a fundamental level.

• You’ll work directly with operators who have scaled multi-billion dollar businesses in automotive, EV, and marketplaces.

• You’ll have real ownership, high autonomy, and a direct line to company outcomes.

The Role
We’re hiring a Recruiter to own full-lifecycle hiring for go-to-market, operations, and early-career technical roles.

Over the last decade, most tech companies split recruiting into parts: sourcer, coordinator, recruiter, sometimes a separate closer. We built this role the other way. No sourcer. No coordinator. You run the whole search, from kickoff through offer acceptance, with your own scheduling supported by Ashby automation and AI tooling rather than handoffs.

That’s a real tradeoff. It’s a harder job than a sourcing or coordination seat, and it’s the fastest way to become a complete recruiter.

You’ll carry 5 to 8 open requisitions and report to the VP of People. Day to day, you’ll work alongside our Senior Recruiter, who owns your craft coaching: search strategy, calibration, and the harder conversations. Senior engineering and ML searches stay with him. You’ll learn those by sitting in, not by being handed them in month one.

What You’ll Own

• Full-lifecycle recruiting: Intake, sourcing, screening, interview loops, debriefs, and close for your own portfolio. You’ll run your searches. You won’t run them alone.

• Hiring manager partnership: Run structured kickoffs that align scope, must-haves, sourcing strategy, panel, and timeline before a search opens. Keep panels engaged and accountable with weekly pipeline updates. You’ll learn to advise hiring managers on market realities and leveling, with your manager in the room until you don’t need her there.

• Proactive sourcing: This is the core skill of the job and where you’ll spend the most time. Direct outreach, referrals, and market mapping, not inbound triage. Build pipelines for recurring roles ahead of need.

• Interview quality: Run structured loops with clear rubrics and scorecards. Keep debriefs on track and on time. Make sure decisions get made instead of drifting.

• Offers and close: Manage close candidate communication, momentum, and start date in partnership with the VP of People, who owns comp construction and negotiation on your searches.

• Ashby and AI: Keep requisitions, pipelines, and candidate data clean and current. Run self-schedule links and interview plans so coordination doesn’t eat your week. Use AI where it pays: market mapping, intake synthesis, screen guides, debrief summaries, and first-draft outreach. Tell us what’s working.

• Where AI doesn’t go: Screening decisions, candidate ranking, comp conversations, and closing stay human. Those are the job, and we don’t automate selection.

• Candidate experience: First outreach, scheduling, feedback timing, rejection, and offer: every touchpoint is Plug’s brand. Find the friction and fix it.

What You’ll Bring

• 2+ years of recruiting experience, with at least one year running searches end-to-end rather than only sourcing or coordinating.

• Evidence you can source: you’ve found and engaged passive candidates through direct outreach, not just worked inbound applicants.

• Hands-on ATS experience. Ashby preferred; Greenhouse or Lever is fine. You keep your own data clean, and you can learn a new system fast.

• Working knowledge of Claude (or a comparable AI assistant) as a daily tool, with a specific example of how you use it.

• Comfort doing your own coordination and scheduling without treating it as beneath you.

• Clear, direct written and verbal communication. You can represent Plug credibly to a candidate and give a hiring manager a straight answer.

• Enough self-direction to prioritize 5–8 searches without being told which one matters most this week, and enough judgment to ask when you don’t know.

• Currently based in the Los Angeles area and able to work onsite in Sawtelle.

Nice to Have

• Agency recruiting experience, or any background with high-volume direct outreach.

• Exposure to technical recruiting: engineering, data, or ML.

• Marketplace, consumer, or two-sided platform experience.

• Experience in a small or scaling TA function rather than a large, highly specialized org.

Your First 90 Days

• 30 days: Fully ramped in Ashby, kickoffs completed on your open reqs, actively sourcing on all of them, and first candidates in process.

• 60 days: First offer extended and accepted. Pipeline health visible to every hiring manager you support.

• 90 days: Running your portfolio with light oversight, hitting response-rate and time-to-slate targets, and bringing us at least one thing we should change about how we hire.

We’ll review three numbers together, monthly: intake to first slate, scheduling touches per candidate, and outreach reply rate.

Not sure you should apply? Do it.
Research consistently shows that people from under-represented groups are more likely to talk themselves out of applying if they don’t meet 100% of the listed requirements. You don’t need to check every box. If this role excites you and you bring most of what’s listed under “What You’ll Bring,” we want to hear from you.

Compensation and Benefits
Annual salary: $88,000 to $111,000

Salary ranges come from independent, third-party benchmarking against national compensation data. Where an offer falls within the range depends on relevant experience, specialized skills, training and qualifications, current business needs, and market conditions. We review ranges periodically and may adjust them as the market changes.

Benefits & Perks

• Health, Vision, and Dental insurance

• 401(k) plan

• Equity

• Unlimited PTO

• Daily lunch and dinner stipend, plus a fully stocked kitchen

• Dog-friendly office and on-site EV charging

• 30-day remote work from anywhere policy

• Ongoing opportunities for growth and development

This full-time position is in-person, based in Sawtelle (between Santa Monica and West Los Angeles). We are hiring locally only. Candidates must already be based in the Los Angeles area. We will not provide relocation assistance to successful candidates. We do not offer sponsorship at this time.

Acknowledgments
Plug is an equal opportunity employer. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, marital status, military or veteran status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Plug will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the California Fair Chance Act.