Talent Acquisition Specialist

Role Overview

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle from role creation to onboarding, ensuring a seamless candidate experience and effective collaboration with stakeholders.
• Specialise in recruiting for a diverse range of software development, product, business and commercial roles, applying a tailored approach to understanding the unique skills, qualifications, and requirements for each position. This includes the ability to adapt quickly to new and evolving roles, leveraging creative and innovative recruitment strategies to meet the needs of the business.
• Liaise with hiring leaders across the business to ensure that clear job briefs have been taken and understand requirements from a candidate perspective.
• Be an expert in direct sourcing and proactively create, build, and maintain talent communities and candidate networks using a variety of attraction and search techniques.
• Utilise various recruitment tools and platforms, including Workable, job boards, LinkedIn, and attraction campaigns to identify, attract, and engage quality candidates.
• Screen and interview candidates to ensure both skill alignment and cultural fit, then coordinate and set up interviews by establishing availability and booking directly into hiring leaders' diaries.
• Manage offer processes, including salary negotiations, and ensure a smooth transition into onboarding.
• Collaborate with the wider people team on onboarding processes to ensure new hires are integrated effectively, maintaining a positive experience from offer acceptance to their start date.
• Develop strategies and solutions to source talent in North America, Europe, and other regions, adapting to local recruitment landscapes and challenges.
• Participate in and manage recruitment projects, which may include process improvements & employer branding initiatives,
• Create engaging LinkedIn posts to help generate applications for the vacancies being recruited.
• Provide guidance and support to hiring leaders for any queries around our ATS (Workable)

Requirements

• Experience managing end-to-end recruitment, ideally within software (dev/product), business or commercial functions.
• Strong sourcing expertise, with a track record of building talent pipelines and engaging passive candidates.
• Ability to adapt recruitment strategies for new geographies and evolving role types.
• Collaborative and confident in working with stakeholders across multiple regions.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• An analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and recruitment metrics.
• Proactive, resourceful, and solutions-focused, with the ability to work independently
• Experience recruiting in international markets (e.g., North America, Europe, South Africa).
• Familiarity with Workable or similar ATS systems.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Bonus scheme
• Share scheme
• Hybrid working
• 25 days holiday plus all UK bank holidays
• 4x life assurance
• Enhanced family-friendly leave
• 5 months' full pay for maternity or adoption, plus 2 weeks' fully paid paternity/adoption leave and an extra 2 weeks to use as paid annual leave within 24 months of birth or adoption
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• free, confidential 24/7 support for you and your immediate family (including counselling, legal & financial advice, and wellbeing resources)
• Ongoing training & professional development
• Cycle to Work scheme
• save up to 40% on bikes and accessories through salary sacrifice
• Eyecare vouchers
• free eye test and contribution towards prescription glasses
• Regular social events
• Employee recognition and awards