Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎯 Recruiter

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Sporty Group

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2013

📱 Media

🎮 Gaming

🎲 Gambling

Media • Gaming • Gambling

Sporty Group is a global sports, technology and entertainment company that builds large-scale products including live sports experiences, streaming media, interactive gaming, and integrated sports betting platforms. The group operates remote-first across multiple continents with flagship offerings such as SportyTV (a free live sports and entertainment streaming platform), Sporty. com (sports app with news, scores, streams, and odds), Sporty Studios (video and content production), and Sporty Interactive (video games and SportyBet sportsbook). Sporty focuses on user experience, technology-driven innovation, and scaling digital products for millions of users worldwide.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end recruitment for senior leadership, specialist and business-critical positions, including sensitive or confidential searches where required • Translate business priorities into clear hiring briefs, advising 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 diagnose stalled searches, refine approaches and resolve difficult hiring challenges • Support priority searches beyond the assigned portfolio and partner with the Global Talent Acquisition Lead on critical hiring and capacity constraints • Share effective practices and turn successful approaches into tools, guidance and team ways of working • Use recruitment data, market insight and candidate feedback to identify risks and recommend action • Maintain accurate records and reporting in Greenhouse • Strengthen structured, inclusive assessment practices and candidate experience • Lead improvements to sourcing, assessment, workflows and automation, demonstrating impact on hiring quality, conversion, speed and candidate experience

🎯 Requirements

• A strong track record of personally delivering senior, complex and business-critical hires across commercial and business functions, ideally within iGaming and/or FinTech • Experience leading targeted searches for leadership and director-level appointments, from initial scoping and market mapping through to offer acceptance • Demonstrated ability to operate as a player-coach: delivering your own recruitment portfolio while improving the judgement, capability and effectiveness of colleagues • Credibility with senior stakeholders, including evidence of constructively challenging requirements, influencing hiring decisions and navigating competing priorities • Strong hands-on capability in direct sourcing, candidate assessment, offer negotiation and closing • Commercial understanding and the ability to connect hiring decisions to business priorities, quickly building knowledge of unfamiliar functions or talent markets • Sound judgement and discretion when handling ambiguous requirements, sensitive appointments and complex candidate conversations • The ability to translate 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 • Evidence of improving recruitment processes or tools. Experience with Greenhouse integrations, automation or other recruitment technology would be an advantage • High autonomy, accountability and a consistent commitment to inclusive, evidence-based and candidate-centred hiring

🏖️ Benefits

• Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability • A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter • 28 days annual leave • Top of the line equipment • Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities