Senior Technical Recruiter

Summary

Join Wave, a leading financial institution in Africa, as a Senior Technical Recruiter. You will play a crucial role in shaping our technical hiring strategy, attracting top talent across various technical roles, and contributing to our mission of financial inclusion. This role involves full-cycle recruiting, developing creative sourcing strategies, partnering with hiring managers, ensuring exceptional candidate experiences, and optimizing hiring processes. You will work remotely with flexible vacation time and receive various benefits, including subsidized health insurance, parental leave, and a yearly stipend. Wave offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment where you can make a real impact. We are looking for someone with 6+ years of recruiting experience and a passion for optimizing processes and delivering exceptional candidate experiences.

Requirements

• 6+ years experience owning recruiting processes end-to-end
• Minimum of 4 years recruiting experience in engineering, product, data, and design focused hiring
• Solid stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience partnering closely with senior leaders and hiring managers
• Analytical mindset and familiarity in using metrics and data to inform hiring strategies
• Experience negotiating complex offers, and closing candidates
• Proficiency in modern Applicant Tracking Systems (preferably Greenhouse) like Ashby, or Lever

Responsibilities

• Own the full-cycle recruiting process of sourcing, screening, interviewing, and closing candidates for a variety of technical roles
• Develop creative sourcing strategies to build strong pipelines of technical talent through online channels, networking, and events
• Partner with hiring managers, including senior leadership, to deeply understand their team's needs, and act as a trusted advisor on hiring strategies and best practices
• Ensure an exceptional candidate experience by staying on top of communication, throughout the hiring process
• Conduct thorough interviews to assess technical skills, cultural alignment and long-term fit
• Track and analyze key recruiting metrics (e.g. conversion rates, passthrough rates, time-to-hire, offer acceptance rates) to optimize hiring processes
• Maintain clean, consistent, and accurate data in our ATS (Greenhouse)
• Drive diversity hiring initiatives, ensuring fair and inclusive hiring practices
• Support interviewer training, hiring process improvements, and documentation

Preferred Qualifications

• Are highly adaptable and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Have a passion for optimizing recruiting processes, continuously improving workflows, and delivering on candidate experience
• Use data and analytics to drive decisions and refine hiring strategies
• Are inspired by Wave’s vision of financial inclusion in Africa
• Enjoy networking and engaging with diverse talent communities
• Have a natural ability to navigate complex relationships
• Are tech-savvy and leverage automation tools to streamline processes
• Embrace challenges and think creatively
• Proactively identify areas for improvement in a process and propose solutions
• Possess excellent negotiation skills and can compellingly advocate for both candidates and the company
• Excel at managing ambiguous projects autonomously

Benefits

• Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country)
• 6 months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
• Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching
• You can work remotely from anywhere (between UTC -1 and +3) with reliable internet access
• You’re willing to travel to one of our key markets once per year for ~6 days (Wave covers all costs). We also provide a yearly stipend of $1,200 to meet with coworkers
• We run performance reviews twice a year and award bonuses or promotions to strong performers who have been with the company for more than six months