Shopify Hiring for Talent Acquisition Lead Job at London, England Full Time

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Shopify has redefined commerce, raising the standard for how companies of all sizes sell their products and services online and off. With 1,000,000+ merchants in more than 175 different countries, and the most innovative platform on the market, we continue to grow rapidly while constantly looking for new ways to impact and disrupt markets.

Shopify is built by outstanding people. The goal of the Talent Acquisition team is to constantly find the best talent to consistently better the teams at Shopify and achieve our mission to make commerce better for everyone. We care deeply about candidate experience, diversity and inclusion, and hiring of high-impact people. With hiring, we need to be willing to reject orthodoxy and bring innovation and creativity to identify and engage incredible people wherever they are.

As the Recruitment Lead for Sales and Account Management EMEA you’ll focus on bringing in the right talent to support our ambitious growth plans in EMEA in the coming years. As a strategic thinker, you will be accountable for leading your team to execute the talent acquisition strategy for your respective businesses, create positive and consistent hiring manager partnerships and candidate experiences designed to attract diverse talent and acquire the best of that talent to achieve Shopify’s strategic goals.

You will establish and maintain partnerships across the organization while being accountable to attract, develop and retain a strong team of recruitment professionals who are brand champions and talent advisors. You will work to build a team culture that encourages innovation, responds to hiring manager and candidate needs, moves quickly, adapts to changing business needs and manages risk appropriately.

Our growth trajectory demands a lot. This isn’t about long hours but about the intensity of work and achieving a lot every day. You need to thrive in a complex environment that is constantly changing and have a natural curiosity and capacity to learn new things.

In this role you will:

• Lead a team of geographically distributed recruitment professionals.

• Partner with various teams to continuously improve selection and attraction criteria; you’ll be constantly experimenting and making adjustments to improve hiring quality, improve interviewer skill, and improve velocity

• Use data to inform decision-making and naturally partner with business leaders to set and achieve hiring goals.

• Work with your team to support them and help them grow

“Must have” qualities and experiences that will make you successful:

• First experience developing and leading a large scale recruitment team

• You are a multiplier of people (ability to 10x a team’s growth and development). Leadership is your craft and you understand that high-quality delivery only happens with a great team that is motivated and excited to achieve the goals ahead.

• Genuine curiosity and the desire to understand people’s stories

• You listen to and learn from the people around you

• Experience building high-trust relationships. Trust is of paramount importance at Shopify. Read about the “trust battery” here.

• Able to keep up with the pace of Shopify

• High attention to detail both with people and process. You’re able to pick up on nuance, ask excellent questions, and plan accordingly.

• A builder’s mindset and a track record of owning problems and caring about how they get solved.

Additional Information

At Shopify, we are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.

If you’re interested in helping us shape the future of commerce, click the “Apply now” button to submit your application. We know that applying to a new role takes a lot of work and we value your time.

Experience comes in many forms, many skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. If your experience is this close to what we’re looking for, consider applying. We know that diversity of thought makes for the best problem-solving and creative thinking, which is why we’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encouraging everyone to apply.