Recruiter (Contract)

About the role

We're looking for a hands-on Recruiter to help us build the team and the recruiting foundation behind Black Girl Vitamins' next stage of growth. We're still building our recruiting processes, so this is a great role for someone who likes creating structure, not just stepping into an established system. You'll own searches from kickoff through close while partnering with our hiring managers to make hiring more organized, consistent, and effective. You'll have room to test what works, improve how we hire, and build practical processes that can grow with BGV.

Location: US Remote - Aligned to US CT. Target start: ASAP.

Responsibilities

• Full-Cycle Recruiting: Own searches from hiring kickoff through offer and close; Partner with hiring managers to understand the role, define the interview process, and establish what we're evaluating; Source and screen candidates across a range of roles and levels; Keep searches moving, gather feedback, and help hiring teams calibrate when the candidate market doesn't match the initial brief; Guide candidates and hiring managers through the offer and closing process.
• Talent Acquisition & Pipeline Building: Build and nurture talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs; Identify creative ways to reach talent beyond traditional job postings and inbound applications; Build relationships with relevant talent communities, networks, and referral sources; Help strengthen BGV's employer brand and how we communicate our story to prospective candidates; Use recruiting data and market feedback to help us understand where we're finding strong candidates and where we need to adjust our approach.
• Building How We Hire: Help turn our growing recruiting process into a simple, repeatable system; Create practical tools such as intake forms, interview guides, scorecards, and candidate communication templates; Help hiring managers become stronger interviewers and make more consistent hiring decisions; Build and maintain recruiting workflows in Dover; Identify what's slowing down hiring and recommend practical improvements; Document processes so they can scale as BGV grows.
• Candidate Experience & Recruiting Operations: Create a candidate experience that feels personal, transparent, and reflective of BGV; Write thoughtful outreach and candidate communications in BGV's voice; Keep candidate data and recruiting activity accurate and organized; Coordinate pre-boarding activities, including background checks, paperwork, and first-week logistics.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of full-cycle recruiting or talent acquisition experience, ideally in a startup or other fast-moving environment.
• Bonus points for CPG experience.
• Experience independently owning searches from kickoff through close.
• Strong sourcing skills and experience proactively building talent pipelines.
• Experience working in an environment where recruiting processes were still being built or improved.
• Comfortable creating a first version, testing it, and improving it rather than waiting for a perfect process.
• Able to partner confidently with hiring managers, ask good questions, and push back constructively when needed.
• Strong judgment about when structure is needed and when to keep things simple.
• Organized enough to manage multiple searches while creating a strong experience for candidates and hiring teams.

Pay

$50-55/hr

Schedule

30-40 hours per week