Talent Acquisition & Comp Lead

The Talent Acquisition & Compensation Lead will be responsible for:

• Building a healthy pipeline of candidates, managing initial screening and candidate interactions, and ensuring smooth candidate experiences
• Maintaining and improving recruiting systems to track and measure success, targeting 5 weeks for time-to-hire
• Supporting compensation research and bi-annual compensation reviews for the People Ops function
• Maintaining a longer-term hiring plan and keeping stakeholders updated on the process

This role enables faster hiring across all teams at Zanskar, supporting the company's mission to make geothermal energy a cheap and vital contributor to a carbon-free electrical grid, directly helping displace carbon emissions.

Required skills and qualifications:

• Structured, hypothesis-driven problem solving with ability to break ambiguous challenges into testable hypotheses
• Compensation analytics & architecture skills including market pricing, leveling frameworks, salary banding, and pay equity analysis
• Full-funnel talent acquisition craft with experience building scalable sourcing strategies for technical/niche roles
• Stakeholder influence & change management skills to partner effectively with hiring managers
• Systems fluency & operational rigor with ATS/HRIS systems (Lever & Lattice knowledge a plus)

Compensation and benefits include:

• Full-time salaried position
• Paid holidays and 18 days PTO
• Medical, Dental & Vision insurance
• 401k retirement plan
• Paid parental leave
• Growth opportunities in a quickly scaling geothermal startup

Zanskar uses better technology to find and develop new geothermal resources in order to make geothermal a cheap and vital contributor to a carbon-free electrical grid, addressing climate change through renewable energy.