About ILM
Founded by George Lucas, ILM is the leading effects facility in the world, with studios located in San Francisco, Vancouver, London, Sydney and Mumbai. ILM has created visual effects for more than 325 feature films, including seven of the top 10 worldwide box‐office hits of all time and 25 of the top 50. It has set the standard for visual effects, creating some of the most stunning images in the history of film. At the forefront of the digital revolution, the company continues to break new ground in visual effects, VR, AR, and immersive cinema. You can see some of our current projects here.
Your role?
As ILM continues its growth in Sydney, we are seeking a Recruiter to join our team of five and be a part of this exciting industry. As the newest Sydney studio Recruiter, you will be responsible for supporting the successful selection and hiring of the best talent for Industrial Light & Magic. Since our studio opened in 2019, the team has hired 700+ people and there is still a runway ahead of us. You will have ownership of several departments within the studio and will own hiring from when the vacancy is opened to offering the role to a new colleague.
This position requires understanding of hiring in a creative industry, ideally with knowledge of VFX, animation, or games, and their various artist disciplines, as well as how a production pipeline could work. Key to this role is the ability to cultivate an environment of care and collaboration, and experience of working in a global company.
What will you be doing?
* Source, screen, interview, and recommend candidates for overhead and artist positions, including working with Recruitment Coordinators and negotiating job offers while creating a positive experience for candidates.
* Assess immigration and relocation needs, obtain appropriate approvals and facilitate the process with our HR business partners as needed.
* Set up a sourcing strategy based on a thorough understanding of position requirements and maintain an active candidate pool to anticipate future hiring needs of the studio.
* Kick off hiring with collaborative hiring meetings and create documentation that keeps the hiring team together throughout the process.
* Help build a talent pool and maintain a global applicant tracking database along with reporting on appropriate metrics for key stakeholders.
* Participate in the continuous improvement of Industrial Light & Magic's employment brand by taking part in various social media campaigns and recruitment events such as career fairs, industry conferences, open houses, and school forums.
* Create interview guides and documentation to help scale interview teams and guide interviewers on best practice.
* Help deliver interview training to your interviewers.
* Establish and maintain good partnerships with hiring managers, HR business partners, and the global talent acquisition team.
* Participate in a variety of projects within the global talent acquisition team.
* Build and deliver hiring events in Sydney and other locations.
Qualifications
To be a contributing member of this team, you will have a mix of these skills:
* At least 3 years of experience in recruitment, ideally (but not necessarily) specializing in the creative, VFX and/or animation industries. This can be agency or internal but we would love a mix of both.
* Experience in sourcing and recruiting creative candidates from outreach through to offer.
* Proficiency in sourcing candidates via various tools (LinkedIn, social networks, job boards, etc.) and using/maintaining an applicant tracking system. We use Workday but are very interested in someone who has experience with other ATS.
* Appreciation of data for its reality and how it can help drive meaningful conversations in recruitment. We do not measure success just on metrics and this is not a KPI lead environment.
* Enjoyment of the challenge of hard‐to‐find candidates from across the globe. This is a challenging industry!
* Ideally, you have sourced candidates in other geographies and worked on relocating them to Australia.
* Love to learn as you go and have worked in a distributed team. If you haven't before, hopefully you will have always wanted to work in a creative company.
* Have attended events and an interest in helping us drive this further in 2026.
* Managed a core requisition load and up to 7 stakeholders at one time. This role partners closely with department leads, Talent Managers, HR leadership, and artists of all levels.
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