Ascent Hiring for Talent Acquisition Specialist – UK Job at Remote Full Time

If you want to be at the heart of hiring in a growing tech company, and be part of a team with real influence and tremendous impact, then this is the place to be!

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About the role*
Talent Acquisition at Ascent is a full stack/full lifecycle recruiting job, with end-to-end responsibility for sourcing, selecting, and hiring candidates in predominantly technical roles. We’re growing at a really quick rate, and we’ve decided to open a new role for a Talent Acquisition Specialist in the UK as a result of our increasing recruitment needs. If you’re an experienced tech recruiter, who loves to work in a collaborative, transparent, and energetic team, this is an amazing opportunity to make your mark in a high-growth company, where everything you do, and everyone you hire, will have an immediate impact.

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What you’ll do*
Reporting to the Director of Talent Acquisition, you’ll be the lead recruiter in UK, partnering closely with business and HR leaders as we grow rapidly. Your priority will be to hire the best tech people out there to be part of Ascent – here are some of the things you’ll need to do:

• Design and implement the right strategies to engage and nurture a diverse pipeline of well qualified and highly engaged candidates to join Ascent in the UK, in a variety of tech industry roles and for some senior level hires
• Champion a high touch candidate experience, coaching and supporting hiring managers to be really effective in recruitment, and ensuring we go a step further than our talented competitors to make sure every candidate we talk to has a great experience of Ascent
• Keep data and reporting on recruitment activity visible and transparent so we can make effective decisions quickly – our ATS is JazzHR
• Play a big role in our TA team as we continue to evolve and adapt how we recruit – we are always looking to improve our processes, our approach, and our skills as a team
• Be the trusted advisor our hiring manager and senior leaders need to give them insight, guidance, and informed choices about our hiring strategies – you should be the go-to expert on hiring in Portugal
• Coach, mentor, and upskill other TA team members as they grow their recruitment skills and experience

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Skills and experience needed*
We’re looking for a real talent acquisition expert, who knows the difference between “order fulfiller” and “talent advisor”.

• You should bring great experience in end-to-end recruitment where hiring data engineers and software developers has been the focus. We’d ideally like some of this experience to have been gained in a scaling company, so you understand how to work at pace with lean, efficient processes
• A deep and proven expertise in sourcing and attracting software and data talent in a highly competitive talent market. You’ll be an expert in the use of sourcing tools and approaches (direct sourcing, LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean techniques)
• An effective influencer, able to leverage various techniques to engage and close candidates, and make your knowledge and insight count with hiring stakeholders
• A proactive, energetic, and highly efficient approach to your work – we’re a collaborative team working in a demanding and dynamic candidate market, so the ability to deliver a great outcome for hiring managers and candidates consistently is key for us

We don’t mind where your role experience has taken you so far, but knowing the UK as a tech hiring market and understanding data and software engineering are really important. Your strong background as a recruitment professional will include a sound knowledge of employment legislation so that you make good decisions that avoid risk and ensure really great experiences for our candidates and new hires. You’ll have a high level of fluency in English, and be confident and comfortable working in English both internally and externally. You’ll need to be based in the UK and be able to work without any visa or work permit sponsorship requirements to apply.

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What’s in it for you*

• A strongly competitive salary that is regularly reviewed, and a good overall benefit package
• A really supportive and collaborative team environment where we share, learn and grow together – your teammates are people from 5 different countries and counting. We like talking about food and pets as much as we do about recruiting!
• Direct working relationships with the CEO, COO, founders, and other senior executives in our business – we don’t consider this “exposure to executives” – these are just the people who are our hiring collaborators!
• Impact – we make things happen here, when something doesn’t work very well, we can change it and barriers get removed here pretty swiftly
• The right investment in talent acquisition – we have invested significant 6-figure sums in our recruitment tools so you can just get on with being a brilliant recruiter

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Working at Ascent*
This is a hybrid role, where you can spend time at the office or work from home. Ascent is a company where your development and learning will be taken seriously, and we’ll support your professional development with training and certification, with regular feedback and review.
Ascent is an equal opportunities employer. We take intentional steps to ensure inclusion and belonging are something real here, not just something we talk about. No person will be treated less favorably because of their gender, pregnancy, and maternity status, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. If you require any reasonable accommodation, please let us know when you apply.
If you have any questions contact our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected].

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Job Type: Full-time