Instructional Talent Recruiter

About Ziplines

Ziplines Education is a category-leading education company that partners with universities to deliver industry-focused certificate courses that prepare professionals for today’s digital-first workforce. Each year, we have the opportunity to help thousands of career advancers build the knowledge, skills, and credentials they need to move their careers forward. 92% of learners would recommend our programs, and our net promoter score is consistently in the excellent range. Together, we empower adult learners to confidently pursue the career they’ve always wanted.

The Role

As an Instructional Talent Recruiter, you will be the first point of contact for instructional talent at Ziplines. This is a high-volume, high-energy recruiting role where urgency and precision are key. You’ll be tasked with building and maintaining a pipeline of exceptional instructors and subject matter experts (SMEs), leveraging LinkedIn, Boolean searches, and other tools to execute rapid, targeted outreach.

This isn’t just about recruiting—it’s about selling the vision of Ziplines and showing candidates how they can make an impact by joining our mission. Success in this role requires relentless focus, proactive communication, and the ability to quickly adapt and optimize your approach.

Who you are

You are highly driven, process-oriented, and thrive in a fast-paced, results-driven environment. You understand that recruiting is about building relationships at scale while never losing sight of the metrics. You take pride in hitting ambitious goals and know how to create systems that enable consistent success.

Must-haves:

• 5+ years of high-volume recruiting or sales experience, ideally within education, admissions, or a similar fast-paced industry.

• Demonstrated success in meeting and exceeding performance metrics, such as number of hires or pipeline conversion rates.

• Proficiency in Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, and other sourcing tools.

• Proven ability to create and maintain scalable recruitment processes.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; your outreach resonates and inspires action.

• High energy, urgency, and resilience—you thrive on momentum and don’t shy away from challenges.

• A natural ability to sell—whether it’s the company mission, the role, or a candidate’s fit, you know how to win buy-in.

Nice-to-haves:

• Familiarity with education-focused recruitment or instructional roles (strong plus).

• Experience working in high-growth or startup environments where adaptability is key.

What you'll do

Build and own the talent pipeline:

• Use LinkedIn, Boolean searches, and other recruiting tools to proactively source high volumes of candidates and continuously refine search strategies.

• Manage targeted, personalized outreach to spark conversations and drive candidate engagement, ensuring consistent pipeline growth.

• Track and manage candidate pipelines systematically, ensuring efficiency and scalability as hiring needs evolve.

Execute with speed and precision:

• Operate with urgency to meet and exceed weekly, monthly, and quarterly hiring targets.

• Rapidly qualify candidates through initial screens, identifying top talent and keeping the pipeline moving at all times.

• Develop and maintain scalable processes to manage high-volume recruiting without compromising quality.

Sell the vision:

• Communicate Ziplines’ mission and the impact of instructional roles clearly and passionately to prospective candidates.

• Build excitement around Ziplines’ opportunities, crafting compelling messages that resonate with different instructor personas.

• Act as a trusted representative of the brand, balancing warmth and professionalism in all interactions.

Refine and optimize:

• Continuously test and improve outreach messaging to maximize response rates and candidate engagement.

• Gather data and insights to refine recruitment strategies and align with organizational needs.

• Stay up-to-date with recruitment tools, trends, and best practices to ensure Ziplines remains competitive in the talent market.

Collaborate and strategize:

• Work closely with cross-functional teams and senior leadership to understand instructional talent needs and align recruiting efforts with organizational goals.

• Analyze industry trends and provide insights to inform recruitment and engagement strategies.

Our core values

• Focus on outcomes — students come first, always.

• Be trustworthy — deliver, be honest, have our backs.

• Be humble — we’re in this together.

• Be curious — continuous learning drives innovation.

• Be you — diverse thinking creates opportunity.

• You value and will contribute to a transparent, no B.S. culture.

Perks and benefits at Ziplines Education (full-time employees)

• Equity: Ownership is a core value, and each full-time employee can invest in Ziplines Education via a stock option (equity) grant, which will vest across four years.

• Time off: We offer a flexible paid time off policy, in addition to 10 paid holidays.

• Flexible, remote work environment: We are a fully distributed team with folks all over the U.S. We meet as a full team at least one time per week and have in-person gatherings or team offsites one or more times per year.

• Family health and wellness: Choose from a range of medical, dental, and vision insurance plans (premiums start at $0/month) for yourself or your family.

• 401K: We know your future self will thank you when you start contributing to your company-sponsored 401k.

• Plus, additional benefits we’d be happy to share with you during the hiring process.

The salary range for this role: is $100,000 - $110,000 USD annually. Individual compensation packages are based on a few different factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, location, experience, qualifications, and other job-related considerations.

To ensure fairness and consistency in our hiring process, we kindly ask all applicants to refrain from reaching out to our team members via LinkedIn, phone, or email regarding this position. All applications must be submitted through our job board, where they will be reviewed by our recruitment team. Thank you for respecting this policy and for your interest in joining our team. We look forward to reviewing your application.

Ziplines, Inc. is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other protected characteristics under applicable law.