Talent Brand Manager

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$148K/yr – $204K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

Lead the end-to-end talent brand for Faire, shaping narrative, digital presence, AI-powered enablement, and scalable storytelling across Engineering, Product, Design, and Data teams.

  • Define why Faire, why now for key hiring areas
  • Build a unified digital footprint with measurable impact
  • Develop AI-powered tools to enable recruiters and candidates

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Architect our employer value proposition: Define a compelling "why Faire, why now" narrative tailored for key hiring areas, beginning with our Engineering, Product, Design, and Data teams. Highlighting the broad range of backgrounds of the retailers and brands we serve, so the workforce we build increasingly reflects the diversity and vibrancy of our customers.
  • Create a unified digital footprint: Orchestrate high-impact campaigns across LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and our careers site to ensure a consistent talent brand backed by measurable performance indicators.
  • Establish Answer Engine Optimization: Develop an AEO framework to ensure Faire’s culture and opportunities are accurately and prominently represented within LLMs.
  • Champion the talent brand identity: Act as a steward for our voice, ensuring every job description and candidate touchpoint aligns perfectly with Faire’s established brand guidelines.
  • Scalable storytelling: Establish a repeatable engine for surfacing authentic stories from our leaders and employees that showcase our values, incredible internal mobility stories, and give a real glimpse into life at Faire.
  • Empower the front line: Create a comprehensive self-serve toolkit for recruiters and hiring managers, including audience-specific positioning and narrative-driven objection handling.
  • Build AI-powered enablers: Launch internal tools that leverage AI to help every Faire employee transform their personal experiences into polished, social-ready content.
  • Measure and iterate: Rigorously track candidate sentiment and conversion data to evaluate the effectiveness of our talent brand investments on hiring success.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with Marketing and Comms partners to ensure a seamless integration of our employer brand across the business.

Requirements

  • 5+ years building employer brand, talent marketing, or recruitment marketing programs, ideally from the ground up
  • Experience running a cohesive brand strategy across owned and earned digital channels: careers site, LinkedIn, social, and Glassdoor
  • Comfortable building self-serve, custom AI tools for individual and team use, and applying them to drive productivity and scale
  • Understands how AI-driven search and answer engines (AEO/GEO) shape how a brand's content surfaces, and wants to build that muscle for talent brand
  • Exceptional writer and editor, able to turn complex, cross-functional work into a story people remember
  • Experience building recruiter enablement materials, including objection-handling content
  • Uses data (candidate feedback, funnel metrics, brand perception) to prioritize what to build and prove it worked
  • Strong cross-functional partner, with experience working across Recruiting, Marketing, Comms, and People teams to ship projects
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Forerunner is a venture capital firm dedicated to the modern consumer and the ambitious teams reshaping categories. Since our inception in 2012, the consumer has been our North Star. We commit ourselves to having a constant pulse on what people are doing and why via ongoing research, and closely observe how world events shape the way we live.We’ve invested in category-defining companies such as Chime, Faire, OURA, Hims&Hers, The Farmer’s Dog, Glossier, Ritual, and more. With nearly $3 billion in assets under management and hundreds of investments to date, Forerunner is amongst the only women-led venture capital firms to achieve such milestones.

Founded in 2012
San Francisco, California, USA
20 employees (2 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$148K/yr – $204K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (10% of company)
Median Tenure
2.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
15

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
44.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36.9%
Direct
52%
Referral
5.7%
Social
3.7%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~20

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Talent Brand Manager

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