About the role
As Senior Manager, Talent at Mytra, you will join our People team during a period of rapid scaling. Our team is focused on hiring quality talent who will take our automated warehouse robotics system from development to deployments across multiple customer sites. This is a player coach role, you’ll be a hands-on, data-driven talent leader to help us build a recruiting engine that scales with the business.
What you’ll do:
- Lead and develop our recruiting team, coaching recruiters to become trusted talent advisors and building a team that can scale with our hiring plan.
- Own executive and senior leadership searches end to end, partnering directly with the CEO, executives, and external search firms as needed.
- Develop our hiring strategy and support headcount forecasting with the senior leadership team and People Partners, aligning recruiting capacity and budget with business priorities.
- Strengthen our employer brand in partnership with Marketing and Design, using social media, events, collateral, and creative ideas to attract top talent to Mytra.
- Manage the performance, contract negotiations, and effectiveness of our contingent workforce program, including relationships with staffing agencies, vendors, and search partners.
- Lead our contingent workforce program, from sourcing and vendor management to conversion and compliance, as a core talent strategy for Mytra.
- Lead our early-career and internship programs to build a strong talent pipeline.
- Identify and manage the tools, processes, and metrics needed to build a robust, agile talent function that attracts top talent in a competitive landscape.
Ideal Candidates
- Extensive recruiting experience and a proven track record of leading high performing recruiting teams.
- Experience operating in a high-growth hardware or manufacturing environment.
- A track record of running executive and senior leadership searches with strong close rates.
- Experience building recruiting processes, metrics, and operating rhythms that support rapid headcount growth.
- Experience managing agencies and contingent workforce programs, including vendor negotiations and budget ownership.
- A commitment to our values: building trust quickly with hiring managers and candidates, demonstrating deep curiosity about the business, challenging constructively, and creating processes built to last.
A Final Note:
If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t check every box. At Mytra, we build bots, but we hire humans. We value thoughtful challengers who communicate with clarity and respect, and we’re lifelong learners committed to getting better every day. We move fast, learn faster, and show up for each other under pressure. The best outcomes come from diverse perspectives working together to build something meaningful and built to last
Benefits Include:
- Competitive compensation and equity grants at a high-growth company backed by top-tier VCs
- Fully subsidized health coverage, including medical (baseline plans), dental, and vision for employees and dependents
- 401(k) plans and employer-subsidized life insurance
- Fully subsidized lunch and snacks at HQ, we eat and share stories together at the “long” table
- Generous PTO and company-paid holidays, including one week over the winter break so everyone can recharge together
- Voluntary pet insurance, Voluntary Life Insurance, Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
- Fully subsidized tax advisory services and education to help you understand your equity
- Commuter benefits, including a up to $150 monthly commuter benefit
- Lively, modern combined office and lab space where we rapidly iterate through design, build, and test phases
- Fully equipped onsite gym and showers at headquarters
Pay Notice
Compensation for this position will be set based on the candidate's experience level and location. The posted salary band is applicable only to the San Francisco Bay Area and is subject to change.
The pay range for this role in San Francisco is: $196,000 – $230,00 USD per year
This role requires on-site presence at our Brisbane, CA headquarters, for close collaboration with the other teams.
