Watson's

Associate Search Manager

Watson's

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • Arizona, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Maryland, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $60,000 - $65,000 per year

Job Level

JuniorMid-Level

About the role

  • Build a strong recruitment ecosystem in your assigned geography by cultivating relationships, identifying strategic partners, and directly engaging promising entrepreneurs.
  • Conduct research and mapping to identify key organizations, universities, incubators, community groups, and influencers in the assigned geography.
  • Build relationships with local nominators and organizations that can refer qualified candidates; attend their events, offer to present, and co-host info sessions (virtual or in-person).
  • Organize and lead virtual info sessions and recruitment events for the assigned geography; co-host events with local partners; present at community gatherings.
  • Proactively identify and reach out to highly promising entrepreneurs through LinkedIn, network referrals, and personalized engagement.
  • Attend community events, pitch the Fellowship, and represent Watson Institute in your region.
  • Support the selection process from application review to candidate interviews, ensuring alignment with Watson Institute’s mission.
  • Maintain organized records, monitor progress, and report on recruitment metrics.

Requirements

  • A deep-seated passion for building community and Watson Institute’s mission to develop innovators, leaders, and entrepreneurs to solve the toughest challenges facing the world.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • A systems-oriented and highly organized approach to their work.
  • Experience with Salesforce (or other CRM platforms) is a plus.
  • Mandatory skills: Excel mastery, email wizardry, rapid follow-up, and data analysis.
  • Facilitation skills, with the ability to inspire and draw out the best in a room during each of the workshops and events being facilitated.
  • Experience working in recruitment in the space of higher education, accelerators, fellowships, or other programs supporting entrepreneurs - preferably in Asian markets.
  • A natural inclination to build relationships and partnerships in recruitment communities in order to strengthen Watson Institute’s presence. This includes hosting weekly webinars via online conferences and WeChat.
  • Experience working with WeChat is required.
  • Experience working with Little Red Note is required.
  • The position requires full professional proficiency in English and Mandarin (spoken and written).
Benefits
  • Competitive base salary according to experience: $60,000.00-$65,000.00.
  • Annual Happiness Fund that increases with time and seniority.
  • Unlimited vacations (3 weeks required vacation time per year).
  • Healthcare benefit via Thatch (ICHRA provider), where employees have the option to apply this amount towards their choice of medical plans, with the option to add vision and dental plans.
  • Automatic 3% contribution to your retirement account.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
Excel masterydata analysisemail management
Soft skills
verbal communicationwritten communicationorganizational skillsfacilitation skillsrelationship buildingpartnership development