Maneva

Founding Talent Manager

Maneva

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Canada

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About the role

  • **Key Responsibilities **
  • **Talent Acquisition & Recruiting (Primary Focus) **
  • - Own full-cycle recruiting across Maneva, with a strong focus on technical roles (AI, ML, software, computer vision, manufacturing technology) and go-to-market roles (sales, marketing, partnerships).
  • - Build and maintain a high-quality, long-term candidate pipeline aligned with Maneva’s near- and mid-term hiring roadmap.
  • - Partner closely with leadership and hiring managers to define role requirements, success profiles, and hiring priorities.
  • - Develop creative sourcing strategies for highly specialized profiles in AI, manufacturing technology, and enterprise SaaS.
  • - Manage interview processes, candidate communication, and offer execution to ensure a thoughtful, high-quality candidate experience.
  • **Hiring Process & Employer Brand **
  • - Design and continuously improve Maneva’s hiring processes, balancing speed, rigor, and fairness.
  • - Represent Maneva to candidates as a mission-driven, technically credible employer at the intersection of AI and manufacturing.
  • - Help articulate and reinforce Maneva’s values, culture, and expectations through the hiring experience.
  • **Onboarding & Lightweight People Operations (Foundational) **
  • - Own onboarding from offer acceptance through the first weeks of employment, ensuring new hires are set up for success.
  • - Establish initial onboarding workflows, documentation, and coordination across tools and teams.
  • - Maintain basic employee records and people processes in partnership with external platforms (e.g., Rippling).
  • - Act as a first point of contact for common people-related questions, with the understanding that these responsibilities will evolve and be handed off as the team grows.
  • **Hiring Insights & Planning **
  • - Track hiring pipelines, time-to-hire, and recruiting capacity.
  • - Provide leadership with clear visibility into recruiting progress, risks, and upcoming needs.
  • - Support early workforce planning as Maneva scales.

Requirements

  • **Qualifications**
  • - 5+ years of experience in talent acquisition or recruiting roles within high-growth startups or technology companies.
  • - Demonstrated experience recruiting across both technical and go-to-market roles.
  • - Comfort engaging with candidates in AI, ML, software, and applied manufacturing technology roles (not expected to perform deep technical assessments).
  • - Experience building recruiting processes in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
  • - Highly organized, accountable, and comfortable owning outcomes end-to-end.
  • - Strong interpersonal skills and sound judgment when supporting candidates and employees.
Benefits
  • **Why Join Maneva?**
  • - Build the recruiting function for a rapidly scaling AI company from the ground up.
  • - Work directly with leadership on hiring strategy, priorities, and execution.
  • - Own a high-impact role that will evolve as the company grows.
  • - Join a mission-driven team applying cutting-edge AI to real-world manufacturing challenges.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
talent acquisitionrecruitingsourcing strategiesinterview processesonboardingemployee records managementworkforce planningpipeline trackingtime-to-hire managementcandidate communication
Soft skills
organizational skillsaccountabilityinterpersonal skillsjudgmentcommunicationcollaborationcreativityadaptabilityleadershipproblem-solving