talent acquisition specialist

Sporty is a remote-first company focused on sustainability.

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for senior leadership, specialist, and business-critical roles, including sensitive or confidential searches
• Translate business priorities into hiring briefs and advise leaders on role scope, candidate profiles, seniority, location, compensation, and assessment
• Build and execute targeted search strategies using talent mapping, direct sourcing, and personalised engagement
• Lead kick-offs, calibration sessions, and hiring discussions to clarify expectations, challenge assumptions, and support timely, evidence-based decisions
• Assess leadership capability, relevant experience, and transferable backgrounds
• Manage complex offers, counter-offers, and sensitive candidate conversations
• Coach colleagues through search reviews, candidate calibration, and feedback on sourcing, assessment, and stakeholder conversations
• Help colleagues diagnose stalled searches, refine their approach, and resolve hiring challenges
• Support priority searches beyond the assigned portfolio to unblock progress or improve outcomes
• Partner with the Global Talent Acquisition Lead to prioritise critical hiring, identify capacity constraints, and recommend additional support or changes in approach
• Share effective practices and develop tools, guidance, and ways of working for the wider team
• Use recruitment data, market insight, and candidate feedback to identify risks, explain trade-offs, and recommend actions
• Maintain accurate Greenhouse records and reporting, providing stakeholders with visibility into progress, blockers, and next steps
• Strengthen structured, inclusive assessment practices and the candidate experience, including for senior candidates navigating confidential moves
• Improve sourcing, assessment, workflows, and automation, demonstrating their impact on hiring quality, conversion, speed, and candidate experience

• Proven track record of personally delivering senior, complex, and business-critical hires across commercial and business functions
• Experience leading targeted searches for leadership and director-level appointments, from initial scoping and market mapping through to offer acceptance
• Ability to deliver a recruitment portfolio while improving colleagues’ judgement, capability, and effectiveness
• Credibility with senior stakeholders, including the ability to challenge requirements constructively, influence hiring decisions, and navigate competing priorities
• Hands-on capability in direct sourcing, candidate assessment, offer negotiation, and closing
• Commercial understanding and ability to connect hiring decisions to business priorities and quickly learn unfamiliar functions or talent markets
• Sound judgement and discretion when handling ambiguous requirements, sensitive appointments, and complex candidate conversations
• Ability to turn recruitment data and market evidence into clear recommendations and practical interventions
• Significant hands-on experience using Greenhouse for workflow management, data quality, reporting, and stakeholder visibility
• High autonomy, accountability, and commitment to inclusive, evidence-based, candidate-centred hiring
• Будет плюсом: experience in iGaming and/or FinTech, experience improving recruitment processes or tools, Greenhouse integrations, automation, or other recruitment technology

• Internship
• Competitive salary and individual performance-based bonuses every quarter
• 28 Days of annual leave
• Top-of-the-line equipment
• Annual company retreats offering internal networking opportunities
• Preferred location: Europe or ZA