Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Role Overview

The Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist is responsible for managing the full-cycle recruitment process to attract, evaluate, and hire top talent for the company in the US. This role involves sourcing, screening, and interviewing candidates while ensuring a positive and seamless candidate experience.

The Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist collaborates closely with hiring managers and department directors to understand staffing needs, ensuring timely searches and successful position closures. This role also includes implementing effective recruiting strategies, providing insights through recruitment metrics analysis, and contributing to employer branding initiatives to strengthen the pipeline of top-tier candidates.

Requires US citizenship or Green Card. All company benefits are available for W-2 employees only.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive full-cycle recruitment process for IT positions with different seniority and complexity, ensuring best possible candidate experience and results for the business;
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of projects, customers and their hiring needs;
• Translate project and role requirements into clear, effective staffing strategies;
• Partner closely with Hiring Managers to align hiring priorities with business goals;
• Act as a strategic advisor on hiring approach, talent availability, and staffing risks;
• Ensure hiring decisions support long-term team composition, culture fit, and Hiring Manager expectations;
• Drive communication with Hiring Managers and be their point of contact on talent market-related questions;
• Develop and implement relevant and innovative TA strategies (sourcing, screening, selection and attracting top IT talents, with a focus on pipeline development for key positions) to ensure meeting the agreed targets on in-time vacancies closure, internal customers' satisfaction with recruitment services, and other KPIs;
• Source candidates from different channels (direct research, networking, internal databases, employee referrals, social media, etc.);
• Provide regular reports to Hiring Managers, Director of Talent Acquisition, and other executives in the agreed format to ensure transparency of the process and talent insights;
• Participate in optimization of recruitment processes, as well as in the development of innovative recruitment tools for team effectiveness.

Qualifications & Skills

• Full-cycle IT-recruitment experience — at least 6 years;
• Deep understanding of technologies, especially Data, local and global IT market awareness;
• Extensive experience in staffing on-shore and off-shore for IT Services and IT Consulting Companies is highly preferred;
• Proven experience of running end-to-end recruitment processes for IT positions of various seniority;
• Experience in working with Job Descriptions (understand, clarify, propose to make changes, and/or draft, when needed);
• Profound knowledge of different recruitment practices, process and tools, ability to navigate through any communication gaps or barriers including using of innovative methods for attracting candidates;
• Excellent communication skills and ability to keep continuous contact via multiple channels, including email, company chats, calls, etc.;
• Result-oriented, responsible, attentive to details, curious, team player and management skills;
• Strong interpersonal skills;
• Excellent networking skills;
• Native speaker or advanced level of English;
• Desire to grow professionally and learn new things and best practices.