Job Description:
We are seeking a seasoned Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of identifying and attracting top talent in the tech industry.
The successful candidate will be responsible for optimizing all talent acquisition activities, centralizing hiring processes, and supporting hiring managers through their interviews.
Key Responsibilities:
* Own the talent acquisition efforts in managing the talent funnel from role scoping, drafting job descriptions, advertising, screening, and nurturing candidates through the process with a delightful experience.
* Collaborate with hiring managers to lead the initial stages (1-2) of the hiring process by filtering applications and conducting screening calls working across a minimum of 15+ roles.
* Optimize interview processes to identify top-caliber talent by building situational, behavioral, cultural, and values question banks.
* Support hiring managers in designing role-related tasks, challenges, and take-homes in the process.
* Activate headhunting mode when required for niche technical roles, earmarking, and nurturing top talent profiles building pipelines across product and engineering.
* Support with benchmarking elite talent profiles helping hiring managers understand great from good.
* Network, build, and nurture relationships with tech startup craftspeople; product managers, engineers, clinicians, sales, ops, CX to build a high-caliber talent pipeline.
* Elevate our employer brand in creative ways representing us across various platforms eg. conferences, networking events, community meetups, blogs, socials, videos etc.
Requirements:
Proven track record of 2+ years in agency and/or internal talent acquisition working within tech or startups.
Experience managing the hiring process end-to-end from activating talent funnel, role scoping, CV screening, interviews to offer, acceptance, and onboarding.
Super-connector, loves working with people, building rapport, and nurturing relationships.
Knowledge around hiring technical roles is important (product and engineering), the rest can be learned.
Must be comfortable with headhunting tactics and cold outreach when needed to build candidate pipelines against talent gaps.
Pace and urgency to your work are essential, if you're execution-focused and get things done no matter how much chaos and ambiguity surrounds you - great.
An eye for identifying high-caliber talent and passionate about building a high-performance culture.
Self-starter, highly motivated, competitive, driven by hitting numbers and developing deep relationships with empathy and a commercial acumen.
Ability to work autonomously with high levels of accountability to meet TA requirements and hiring goals.
Someone who is compassionate, has a great sense of humor, a zest for life, is keen to accelerate their career in people, and have fun.