
Talent Sourcer
Elliptic
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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About the role
- **What you will do**
- - **Proactively source** exceptional candidates using a variety of channels including LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, social media, professional networks, industry events, and creative research techniques.
- - **Build and maintain robust talent pipelines** for current and future hiring needs across technical and non-technical functions, with a focus on hard-to-fill roles.
- - **Conduct market mapping and talent intelligence** research to identify where top talent is located, understand market trends, and provide insights on competitive hiring landscapes.
- - **Engage passive candidates** with personalized, compelling outreach that tells the Elliptic story and generates genuine interest in opportunities.
- - **Partner closely with Talent Acquisition Partners and hiring managers** to understand role requirements, ideal candidate profiles, and team culture to ensure highly targeted sourcing.
- - **Conduct initial candidate screening** to assess qualifications, motivations, and cultural fit before handing over to recruiters for deeper engagement.
- - **Track and optimize sourcing tools & metrics** including pipeline health, conversion rates, channel effectiveness, and response rates to continuously improve sourcing outcomes.
- - **Champion diversity and inclusion** in sourcing practices, actively building diverse pipelines and experimenting with strategies to reach underrepresented talent pools.
- - **Contribute to employer branding initiatives** by representing Elliptic authentically in all candidate interactions and feeding insights to help us strengthen our market presence.
- **What you will achieve in the first 6 months:**
- - Establish yourself as a trusted partner to the talent acquisition team and key hiring managers, becoming known for delivering quality pipelines consistently.
- - Build sustainable talent pipelines for at least three critical hiring areas, significantly reducing time-to-fill for key roles.
- - Demonstrate measurable improvements in sourcing metrics, including increased response rates, higher-quality candidate submissions, and improved conversion rates from sourced to hired.
- - Successfully source candidates for 10+ hires, playing a pivotal role in helping Elliptic attract exceptional talent during a key growth phase.
- - Implement at least one innovative sourcing strategy or experiment with a new channel that expands our reach to talent we weren't previously accessing.
Requirements
- **You’ll be great here if you:**
- - **Experienced in sourcing**, with significant time spent in a dedicated sourcing role, ideally in a fast-paced tech, SaaS, or start-up/scale-up environment.
- - **A sourcing expert** who is proficient in LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search techniques, and various sourcing tools and platforms.
- - **Naturally curious and creative**, always thinking about new ways to find talent and willing to experiment with unconventional sourcing channels.
- - **Data-driven and analytical -** using metrics to inform your sourcing strategies and making decisions based on what the data tells you.
- - **AI Fluent** with the ability to comfortably engage with AI-powered tools and technologies to enhance productivity, creativity, or decision-making.
- - **An exceptional communicator**, able to craft engaging outreach messages and build authentic relationships with candidates from diverse backgrounds and seniority levels.
- - **Highly organised and able to manage multiple searches simultaneously**, prioritizing effectively and maintaining detailed records of candidate interactions.
- - **Passionate about diversity and inclusion**, actively working to build diverse talent pipelines and challenge biases in the sourcing process.
- - **Comfortable working across technical and non-technical roles**, with the ability to quickly understand different functions and what makes candidates successful in various positions.
- - **Resilient and persistent**, understanding that great sourcing often means hearing "no" before finding the perfect "yes."
- **Bonus Points for:**
- - Experience sourcing for Go-to-market (GTM) positions including sales, marketing, customer success, and revenue operations roles.
- - Understanding of the B2B SaaS landscape and what makes commercial talent successful in this environment.
- - Familiarity with Pinpoint or other modern ATS platforms.
- - Experience building sourcing strategies from scratch in a high-growth environment.
- - Knowledge of UK and European talent markets and employment regulations.
Benefits
- **> How we work:**
- - Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
- - £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space
- **> Learning & Development:**
- - $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development
- **> Vacation/ Leave:**
- - Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- - An extra day for your birthday
- - Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave and leave.
- **> Benefits:**
- - Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
- - Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
- - Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
- - £100 cryptocurrency for you!
- - Cycle to Work Scheme
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
sourcingBoolean searchdata-drivenanalyticalAI fluentcandidate screeningmarket mappingtalent intelligencediversity and inclusionsourcing strategies
Soft skills
exceptional communicatornaturally curiouscreativehighly organizedresilientpersistentrelationship buildingprioritizationauthentic engagementpassion for diversity