Manager Talent Acquisition - Product Development

Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract.

As a company, we constantly challenge what's possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations.

As a Manager of Talent Acquisiton, you will drive our core product development hiring strategy by leading, coaching, and developing a high-performing team of recruiters and sourcers. Serving as the critical bridge between our broader TA vision and daily execution, you will step in as a hands-on player-coach while fiercely protecting our "Back to Basics" methodology indexing on process and data. Ultimately, you are a builder of people-dedicated to cultivating internal TA talent by equipping your team with the essential skills for stakeholder management, structured interviewing, and complex negotiations.

• Manage a team of full-cycle recruiters and sourcers, providing regular 1:1 coaching, pipeline reviews, and performance feedback.
• Guide your team through complex requisition negotiations, offer approvals, and hiring manager escalations.
• Foster a collaborative, high-resilience team environment, ensuring workloads are balanced and recruiters are supported through challenging searches.

• Serve as the primary TA partner to Directors, Senior Directors, and Vice Presidents within the Product Development organization.
• Lead regular pipeline review meetings with functional leaders, ensuring alignment on candidate quality, speed, and any necessary adjustments to the search strategy.
• Act as a "player-coach" when necessary, carrying a highly targeted requisition load for critical-path or sensitive roles to support the team's capacity.

• Monitor daily and weekly funnel metrics (time-to-interview, conversion rates, aging reqs) to spot bottlenecks early and course-correct before they impact the business.
• Enforce standardized processes across your team, ensuring every candidate receives a consistent, high-quality experience and that hiring managers are completing scorecards in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with TA Director to feed on-the-ground insights into macro capacity models and quarterly business reviews.

• Work with your team to pressure-test and refine their sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill roles, ensuring they are effectively leveraging AI tools and market mapping techniques.
• Drive adherence to inclusive hiring practices on the front lines, ensuring your team is actively mitigating bias in resume screening, interview panel construction, and debrief sessions.

• 7-10+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in high-growth, corporate environments.
• 1-3+ years of people management or formal team lead experience, with a demonstrated ability to train, mentor, and drive performance in junior-to-mid-level recruiters.
• Strong tactical knowledge of technical recruiting, understanding the nuances of hiring across multiple technical teams.
• Proficiency in running pipeline review meetings, diagnosing funnel issues using ATS data, and holding both team members and hiring managers accountable to SLAs.
• Excellent conflict resolution skills, with the ability to manage up and push back constructively with Director-level stakeholders.
• A deep understanding of core recruiting technologies (iCIMS, Workday, etc.) and how to drive user adoption within a team.

• Experience operating in a "player-coach" capacity, balancing team management with individual requisition delivery.
• Background in developing training materials, onboarding programs, or standard operating procedures for recruiting teams.

The salary range for this role is USD 137,800-182,520 for SoCalbased applicants, USD 149,700-198,320 for NorCalbased applicants, and USD 125,800-166,620 for Atlanta-based applicants. This is the lowesttohighest salary we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including but not limited to specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, shift, and organizational needs.

The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual performance bonus and equity awards.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26, including but not limited to paid vacation, paid sick leave, and a competitive portfolio of insurance benefits, including life, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance to eligible employees. You may also have the opportunity to participate in Rivian's 401(k) Plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program if you meet certain eligibility requirements. Full-time employee coverage is effective on their first day of employment. Part-time employee coverage is effective on the first of the month following 90 days of employment. More information about benefits is available at rivianbenefits.com.

Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Rivian is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at candidateaccommodations@rivian.com.

Rivian may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes ("Candidate Personal Data"). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.

Rivian may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our People Team, Finance, Legal, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Rivian affiliates; and (iii) Rivian's service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.

Rivian may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.

Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services.