Who We Are

: At Arkana Laboratories, everyone has an important role to fill. Come join us and be a part of a team dedicated to making life better for those who need it most. This place is packed with super-smart people who do their best work together.

We work hard every day to advance our understanding of disease and provide world-class care to our patients in hopes of leaving our corner of the world a little better than we found it. While we are committed to improving the lives of thousands of patients, we never lose sight of the realization that they are the reason we get to create change in our field. Built on generosity, teamwork, and the freedom to try new things, we take great pride in our work.

Great ideas come from everywhere in this company and we celebrate each success and failure for the opportunity it gives us to keep reaching. For more than twenty years after our founder, Dr. Patrick Walker, wrote his goals on the back of a napkin, our people, culture, and values have remained strong.

About the position: THIS IS NOT A REMOTE POSITION; Consideration to working a hybrid work schedule (2 days remote/3 days in office) will be given after an assimilation period. Recruitment firms and contractors will not be considered and should not apply. The Talent Acquisition Specialist is how Arkana finds its people before they need them.

This new position on Arkana's small but mighty HR Team is so much more than posting jobs and waiting for applicants—it proactively sources candidates, builds and nurtures talent pipelines, runs full-cycle recruitment, and handles the front end of onboarding. It recruits across the full range of Arkana’s positions, from lab techs to accounting, administrative, and operational roles. Physician recruiting is handled separately within the physician area and sits outside this role.

For most candidates, this person is their first real experience of Arkana, long before a start date. Everything we do at Arkana is grounded in three values: Pulling the Sled, Generosity, and Do Better, Try Harder. In this role, that means keeping searches moving when a dozen things compete for attention, treating every candidate and new hire like we would like to be treated, and staying curious about how to make hiring and compliance work better than they did last quarter while ensure excellent candidate experience.

What You'Ll Do

: Proactive Sourcing & Pipeline Building – 25% (Core) Go find candidates and inform them of Arkana's amazing work atmosphere and environment instead of waiting for them to come to you. Build and maintain talent pipelines for Arkana’s recurring and hard-to-fill roles through direct outreach, networking, referrals, professional communities, and sourcing tools. Keep warm relationships with promising candidates so that when a role opens, there is already a bench to draw from rather than a search starting from zero.

Full-Cycle Recruitment – 20% (Core) Partner with hiring managers to scope roles, write and refresh job descriptions, and design the recruitment strategy for each search — deciding which channels, sourcing mix, and screening approach fit the role, rather than following a fixed process for every requisition.

Qualifications

and fit, advancing or screening out applicants without requiring case-by-case sign-off, and advise hiring managers on interview design and candidate selection.

Compensation

bands, escalating only matters outside that authority. Keep every search moving while providing excellent service to the supervisor and the candidate. Onboarding Kickoff – 15% (Core) Own the handoff from offer to onboarding, using judgment to resolve gaps or delays in pre-employment drug and background screening rather than escalating every exception.