Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

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🕒 October 14

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎯 Recruiter

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Sporty Group

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201 - 500 employees

🎮 Gaming

💳 Fintech

📱 Media

Gaming • Fintech • Media

Sporty Group is a consumer internet and technology business with a strong foothold in sports media, gaming, social, and fintech platforms. The company serves millions of daily active users globally through its technology and operations hubs located across more than 10 countries and 3 continents. Sporty Group's success is built on attracting intelligent, energetic individuals who are passionate about creating value and are rewarded for their contributions. The company employs a diverse team of over 300 professionals and continuously seeks to grow with the help of talented people offering innovation and excellence.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end recruitment for senior leadership, specialist and business-critical positions, 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 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 • 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 reusable tools, guidance and 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 • High autonomy, accountability and a consistent commitment to inclusive, evidence-based and candidate-centred hiring • Experience with Greenhouse integrations, automation or other recruitment technology would be an advantage

🏖️ 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

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