Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

About the Role: We are seeking an experienced Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our team. As a pioneer in the global tech industry, we attract a huge number of applicants to our organization. Our unique hiring process empowers our business-based Hiring Leadership team to lead talent selection.

Our Talent Science team ensures that our processes are effective and that the business is able to hire high-performing talent. This is an exceptional opportunity to join a team that is changing the way an organization hires, connecting performance outcomes to hiring.

We have created a mission to ensure that we follow objective, scientifically rigorous, and efficient processes to select the very best new colleagues regardless of location, culture, or background. We work closely with our key stakeholders to ensure that decisions are being made in the right way and that our hiring model supports the selection of world-class talent.

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing a search strategy for our business, ensuring processes enable headhunted talent to move smoothly through the pipeline. They will also coach our senior leadership teams to drive hiring outcomes, enabling them to become experts at approaching and attracting exceptional talent for their management and leadership positions.

Key Responsibilities:

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• Develop a search strategy for our business, ensuring processes enable headhunted talent to move smoothly through the pipeline.">
• Coach our senior leadership teams to drive hiring outcomes, enabling them to become experts at approaching and attracting exceptional talent for their management and leadership positions.">
• Drive talent analytics to provide our business with real-time insight, partnering with the business to help them move through their hiring processes efficiently.">
• Conduct in-depth behavioral talent interviews providing considerable insights into motivations and behaviors.">
• Build key relationships with global stakeholders to ensure we deliver against our hiring agenda, closely monitoring hiring activities, driving results, and ensuring consistency in our operational processes.">
• Closely monitor hiring activities, drive results, and ensure consistency in our operational processes.">
• Consider our employer brand and how our interactions with a candidate impact their experience.">
• Seek continuous improvement on hiring processes and outcomes.">
• Bring a passion for diversity and inclusion, ensuring we remove unconscious bias from our hiring process and ensuring our sourcing strategy underpins this.">
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Requirements:

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• Professional experience of headhunting from a reputable search firm or in-house search function, with an informed opinion of strategies and experience of successfully sourcing senior talent in the Technology industry.">
• Experience of working with senior stakeholders, creating learning programs to develop their ability to successfully identify and engage with passive talent.">
• Exposure or appreciation of psychometric assessments.">
• Experience of conducting behavioral, competency-based interviews with the ability to train stakeholders and advise on how to get the best out of an interview.">
• An exceptional academic background including a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a Psychology or people-based subject and a good level of Maths from High School.">
• Strong analytical problem-solving ability to identify trends and patterns from data and proficiency with LinkedIn talent modules.">
• A high level of personal organization to work remotely and be effective.">
• Willingness to travel to company events 2-4 times a year, for up to two weeks each.">

What We Offer:

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• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person.">
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.">
• Annual compensation review.">
• Recognition rewards.">
• Annual holiday leave.">
• Maternity and paternity leave.">
• Employee Assistance Programme.">
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues.">
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long-haul company events.">

About Us:

We are a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. We have been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.