Headhunter/Talent Sourcer

As a Headhunter/Talent Sourcer at Featurespace you’ll help us achiever our goals and deliver success, working with a team who pride themselves on consistently delivering a first- class service to the business and a red-carpet experience to candidates. You will do this by:

• Working with the Recruitment Manager to identify hard to fill, business critical roles and build strong talent pipelines to reach our recruitment targets.
• Helping us build a strong employer brand and ensure we provide a positive candidate experience.

What will you get in return? Beyond our competitive salaries and great benefits (think free office takeaways!), you’ll be joining a supportive, close-knit team in a company that truly values its’ culture. You’ll have the opportunity to recruit for a vast variety of interesting roles, teams, and people across different continents, and will be instrumental in furthering Featurespace’s mission to fight fraud and financial crime.

This role can be based in either our Cambridge or London office, with a willingness to travel to our Cambridge site when necessary.

You’ll play a key role in helping shape Featurespace’s future by collaborating with colleagues across the company to consistently identify and attract the best people.

The business is growing at an incredible rate, and therefore we want to focus on a more proactive approach when it comes to hiring. Ensuring we hire the best people for the job.

As a company we hire people with a willingness to adapt to a variable role, so along with the key responsibilities below, we ask for ownership of any other duties as required.

• Collaborate with hiring managers, taking in detailed briefs for each role
• Advertise job openings on careers pages, job boards and social networks (e.g. LinkedIn)
• Manage employee referral programs
• Source candidates through online channels (e.g. LinkedIn and Cord)
• Marketing mapping for competitors and relevant businesses
• Build strong talent pipelines for all of your vacancies
• Be the first point of contact, to screen candidates you have sourced directly and sell Featurespace
• Report to hiring managers on the status of open positions you are sourcing for, providing detailed updates and solutions to difficult searches
• Build a strong network of candidates for various roles across the business
• Alongside the Recruitment Manager analyse cost of recruitment and set realistic goals on recruitment costs for each financial year
• Manage candidate relationships through the full hiring process
• Provide detailed interview feedback to candidates
• Manage the offer process

Most importantly, you’ll leave candidates feeling great about Featurespace, regardless of the outcome of the interview.

• Experience recruiting into the technology industry either as part of an in-house recruitment team or in agency
• Excellent sourcing skills, via LinkedIn and other means
• Ability to juggle multiple competing priorities, and be confident at prioritisation
• Exceptional people skills with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• High attention to detail

Great to haves

• Familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems and CV databases
• Experience using various interview formats

As a Headhunter/Talent Sourcer, you also need the following qualities:

• • A can-do attitude, positive outlook and good energy
  • A passion to work for one of the fastest growing fraud prevention technologies in the world
  • Reliable and trustworthy
  • Attention to detail
  • Adaptable
  • Ability to get on with everyone

And most importantly, a small-company attitude: willingness to adapt to a variable role and a great can-do attitude.