Talent Acquisition Associate

Summary

Join Employment Hero as our Talent Acquisition Associate and be part of our global team, hiring for the UK and Canada. You will play a key role in attracting and securing top talent, ensuring a best-in-class time to hire. Your responsibilities include full-cycle recruitment, crafting engaging candidate experiences, and implementing AI-driven recruitment strategies. This high-impact role requires hands-on recruitment experience, the ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, and a passion for process improvement. Employment Hero offers remote work flexibility, cutting-edge tools, and a supportive team environment. We also provide generous benefits, including ESOPs, paternity leave, subsidized egg freezing, a WFH office expense budget, and excellent learning and development opportunities.

Requirements

• Some hands-on recruitment experience (you don’t need to be a pro yet — this is an Associate level role and we’ll help you level up fast)
• Proven experience moving fast, thriving in ambiguous environments, and being highly proactive in every aspect of your role
• A passion for building high-performing teams
• A love for testing, improving processes and making things more efficient
• The ability to think creatively, act boldly, and solve problems with first-principles thinking
• A high level of confidence working with generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini, with a keen interest in this space and a passion for what it will do
• Note: you’ll also need to be comfortable working across multiple timezones throughout the UK and Canada

Responsibilities

• Own and execute full-cycle recruitment for high-impact roles, ensuring an outstanding experience for every candidate
• Deliver a best-in-class time to hire metric while maintaining an extremely high quality of hire
• Craft and execute strategies to attract A-players — people who live our DNA
• Craft candidate experiences that are engaging, memorable and boost our brand - from application to onboarding
• Help shape powerful position descriptions and talent campaigns that attract top talent
• Test, implement, and optimise AI-powered recruitment techniques to enhance the functions efficiency and effectiveness
• Improve hiring workflows, ensuring our process is seamless, data-driven, and continuously improving
• Leverage data insights to refine sourcing strategies and hiring decisions

Preferred Qualifications

• Attracting and securing world-class talent for our UK and Canadian entities, ensuring that every new hire is 100% aligned to our ways of working and DNA (measured via: Quality of Talent)
• Operating with speed and focus to fill every live role with efficiency; delivering a best-in-class time to hire that sets the standard for excellence in talent acquisition (measured via: Speed to Hire)
• Pioneering, optimizing, and embedding AI-driven recruitment strategies that transform our Talent Acquisition function—elevating efficiency, streamlining operations, and empowering a smarter, faster, and more future-ready hiring process. (measured via: Productivity metrics)

Benefits

• You will work remotely, with the flexibility to own your time and impact
• You will access cutting-edge tools to amplify your work, knowledge and outputs
• You’ll surround yourself with ambitious, outcome-driven colleagues who challenge you to do the best work of your life
• You’ll own ESOP (employee share options) in one of the world’s fastest-growing tech companies
• You’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits that includes: a very generous paternity leave policy, subsidised egg freezing (so you can make the choice that’s right for you, on your terms), a WFH office expense budget, and outstanding learning & development opportunities