Associate Recruiter

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

Elastic is growing fast and we're looking for a highly motivated, intelligent, and hardworking Associate Recruiter to join our global talent team. You will act as a Talent Advisor to our AMER Field Operations Team, where you will be responsible for sourcing, leading and driving the entire recruitment process for a variety of roles and levels. Are you a creative, high energy emerging recruiter ready for an exciting new challenge? We would love to have you join us for the ride.

Please note this role can be located anywhere in the USA as long as you're comfortable working from home or a non-affiliated co-working space. We have offices in several cities, but this is not an office based role as our teams are fully distributed, too. If you happen to be near an office and you want to use it, phenomenal, you are always welcome, and we will have a desk ready for you!

What You Will Be Doing

• Engage talent — Identify the right people, get them engaged, and lead the full hiring process


• Build tight relationships with your hiring teams and serve as an advisor and partner to build balanced pipelines of stellar candidates and fill current openings. Roles you will have the opportunity to work on will vary throughout the Field Operations organization, including Account Executives, Solution Architects and more within both the Commercial and Public Sector space.


• Craft and improve a consistent and outstanding candidate experience


• Run and champion our hiring process to provide a consistent experience with the Elastic recruiting team


• Participate with the global recruiting team to develop, implement, and execute recruiting strategies


• Be a passionate Elastic brand ambassador before, during, and after recruitment. You will help us build our talent brand in addition to our talent pipeline

What You Bring

• 2+ years of recruiting experience across positions and teams


• A passion for understanding at least the basics of what hiring teams are working on.


• Demonstrable experience recruiting for a fast-paced company. Maybe it's a software company, start-up, and/or, better yet, even a company where talent isn't knocking down your door


• Experience in direct sourcing of hard to find skillsets


• High attention-to-detail and ability to prioritize multiple reqs


• Sharp eye for business with the ability to listen, ask relevant questions, and think three steps ahead


• Ability to successfully articulate the Elastic value proposition and story to candidates


• Ability to establish relationships by phone, email, and social media channels


• Experience collaborating with and influencing hiring managers and executives throughout the recruiting cycle


• Solid understanding of ATS tools (Greenhouse a bonus!) and recruiting technologies