Talent Acquisition Specialist

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🎯 Recruiter

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Aquent

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

💰 $12.5M Debt financing on 2015-07

B2B • SaaS

Aquent is a global creative staffing company that connects businesses with marketing, creative, and design talent using proprietary recruitment technology and a team of recruiters. It offers services including temporary staffing, contract-to-hire, permanent recruitment, and Employer of Record support, and serves clients across industries (e. g. , healthcare, government, tech) with specializations in roles like UX designers, illustrators, animators, content strategists, and project managers. The company also produces resources like salary guides and AI talent research, and operates brands such as Skill, Aquent Studios, RoboHead, and Aquent Scout.

📋 Description

• Lead full-lifecycle searches from intake through sourcing, assessment, selection, offer, and close • Partner with hiring leaders to understand business needs and create candidate profiles and recruiting strategies • Recruit across engineering, product, analytics, corporate functions, sales, client/account management, and leadership • Adapt recruiting and assessment approaches to each search’s function, level, and complexity • Create a thoughtful, high-quality candidate experience • Build targeted sourcing strategies and research industries, companies, talent pools, and emerging skill sets • Identify high-potential candidates outside conventional profiles or keyword searches • Develop and maintain talent pipelines for critical and recurring positions • Build candidate relationships and compelling reasons to consider Aquent • Conduct structured interviews evaluating skills, accomplishments, intellectual capability, leadership potential, motivation, and alignment • Develop interview and assessment approaches with hiring managers • Synthesize interviews and assessments into clear, evidence-based recommendations • Maintain a high talent bar while balancing quality, speed, candidate experience, and business needs • Develop understanding of Aquent’s businesses, products, technology, customers, and strategy • Build relationships with hiring managers and senior leaders • Provide market intelligence and data to shape hiring strategies • Manage multiple searches and competing priorities • Use AI tools to accelerate research, sourcing, preparation, analysis, and communication • Experiment with AI-enabled recruiting approaches and share effective tools, prompts, workflows, and practices • Apply judgment when using AI and continually evolve recruiting practices

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher, with a demonstrated record of academic achievement • Demonstrated leadership capability through professional, academic, extracurricular, entrepreneurial, or community experiences • Recruiting, talent acquisition, executive search, research, consulting, sales, or another experience demonstrating the ability to identify and assess talented people is preferred • Strong intellectual curiosity and ability to quickly learn unfamiliar businesses, technologies, roles, and industries • Engineering mindset: logical, structured, analytical, and inclined to understand how things work and improve them • AI fluency and demonstrated interest in using AI tools to improve work quality and efficiency • Strong research and sourcing capabilities, including finding talent beyond obvious candidate pools • Excellent interviewing, listening, and assessment skills • Strong written and verbal communication skills and confidence interacting with candidates and leaders at all levels • Sound judgment and ability to make evidence-based recommendations while operating with discretion and integrity • High initiative, ownership, organization, and follow-through • Comfortable in an environment where priorities evolve and experimentation is encouraged