Contract Recruiter at The Honest Company in California

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About Us
The Honest Company (NASDAQ: HNST) is a personal care company dedicated to creating cleanly-formulated and sustainably-designed products spanning categories across diapers, wipes, baby personal care, beauty, apparel, household care and wellness. Launched in 2012, the Company is on a mission to challenge ingredients, ideals, and industries through the power of the Honest brand, the Honest team, and the Honest Standard. For more information about the Honest Standard and the Company, please visit www.honest.com.
Our Mission
We're on a mission to empower people to live happy, healthy lives. We're a wellness brand with values rooted in consciousness, community, transparency, and design. Every day and in every way, we hold ourselves to an Honest standard. We believe that it is our responsibility to do our part to help create a healthy and sustainable future for all.
The Role
The Honest Company is looking for a Contract Recruiter in a full-time capacity. This is a four-month contract role starting in September 2026 and running through the end of the year. This is a critical role that will have a tremendous impact on Honest’s business as the company continues to scale and grow. This individual will assist with all aspects of recruiting and hiring and provide support to candidates at each stage of the recruiting process to ensure best in class candidate experience. Individuals must have full-cycle recruiting experience in a fast paced environment with exceptional skills in sourcing passive candidates, selling Honest’s mission, negotiating and closing offers, and managing multiple positions across multiple verticals.
What you’ll do:
Own full-cycle recruiting across multiple departments, including Marketing, Sales, Finance/Accounting, Operations, R&D, Technology, and Creative.
Act as a business partner and resource to various hiring managers at all levels throughout the recruiting process from start to finish and establish recruiting strategies that fill existing and future openings.
Manage the entire recruiting life cycle from intake meetings, phone screens through offer management, and on-boarding.
Proactively communicate to hiring managers, candidates, and People Team providing timely updates on recruiting progress and challenges.
Manage the interview process: act as a host for candidates, keep interviews on schedule, and provide office tours.
Create and enhance job descriptions ensuring that they are clear, concise, relevant, and effective in attracting relevant candidates.
Establish passive talent pools through LinkedIn and have the ability to convert passive candidates to Honest job opportunities.
Manage all open requisitions via Greenhouse ensuring that all data is updated and accurate.
Act with a sense of urgency to meet quarterly hiring goals while maintaining a high bar for talent.
Creatively assisting in team's talent brand, sourcing, and recruiting strategies identifying opportunities that will help attract the best talent in the market.
Assist with Talent Acquisition and HR programs and initiatives as needed.
You’ll love this job if you’re:
A talented juggler. You successfully manage competing priorities, and you make it look easy
Passionate about recruiting. You're consistently brainstorming new ways to improve candidate experience
Flexible. You can change direction quickly and easily adapt to curveballs
Comfortable in a fast-paced, fluid environment. You're calm under pressure and think quickly on your feet
Adaptable and ambitious. You will enthusiastically take on other assignments as needed to support your team!
What you’ll need:
3+ years of full-time experience in full-cycle recruiting
Ability to handle confidential information with care and professionalism
Extensive experience using LinkedIn Recruiter to identify passive candidates
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to take initiative and build strong relationships quickly
Exceptional attention to detail and strong organizational skills
Ability to manage multiple initiatives and responsibilities in parallel
Strong ATS experience (e.g., Greenhouse) and proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Proven track record of supporting multiple high-touch hiring managers, managing repetitive requisitions, and running multiple projects simultaneously
Skilled in coordinating virtual interview processes via Zoom, ensuring smooth scheduling, link management, and timely follow-ups
Compensation
The pay range for this role is $40–$50 per hour. Actual compensation is based on many factors including but not limited to depth of experience, skill level, ability, knowledge, education, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
California Privacy Rights Notice for Californian Job Applicants and Prospective Talent
Effective Date: January 1, 2020
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), The Honest Company, Inc. (“Honest” or “us” or “we”) is required to inform California residents who are our job applicants or prospective talent (together “job applicants” or “you”) about the categories of personal information we may collect about you and the purposes for which we use this information.  Click here if you are a California resident to read disclosures required by the CCPA. Note this notice applies only to personal information that is subject to the CCPA.
Categories of Personal Information We Collect. We may collect the following categories of personal information about our job applicants, who are California residents:
Name
Signature
Social Security Number
Email and mailing address
Telephone number
Education
Employment history
How We Use Job Applicants' Personal Data.  We use and disclose the personal information we collect for our business purposes.  These business purposes include, without limitation:
Processing evaluating your application to determine your qualifications for the role to which you’ve applied, and communicating with you about your application, including to check references or your background, and communicate with you about other jobs that may interest you.
Other business purposes as identified in the CCPA, which include:
Auditing related to our interactions with you;
Legal compliance
Detecting and protecting against security incidents, fraud, and illegal activity;
Debugging;
Performing services for us, such as analytics;
Internal research for technological improvement; and
Internal operations.
Other Interactions with The Honest Company.  More information about our privacy practices can be found in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated herein by reference.
Contact Us.  For questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@honest.com.
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