Senior Tech Recruiter - Contractor at SPAN Digital Innovation

SPAN is a technical strategy & software engineering firm headquartered in San Francisco, with a distributed development team in Cape Town and Jhb.. SPAN’s founders created & evolved everything from iTunes-top-10 consumer mobile apps to Class-2 FDA-regulated cloud-based healthcare systems to the Shazam app. 

Our team consists of senior people working closely with our founders to create software solutions for global clients like *Pandora *Apple *HERE *Beats Music *Walmart Labs *Major League Baseball Advanced Media/Bamtech *HBO Now, WWE & EuroSport.

You’ll love it here if:

• You are allergic to hierarchical, bureaucratic, business-card cultures
• You want to work with very smart people from radically different backgrounds
• You want to be led from the front, not commanded from the rear
• You don't tolerate intra-office posturing or other douchebaggery

What we offer:

• Competitive comp and work flexibility 
• Learning organisation with a reverence for expertise and professional development
• Friday lunches, mobile haircuts, pet friendly workplace (if you choose to work from the office), home office allowance

As SPAN's Tech Recruiter you will use your passion and knowledge to grow into a trusted talent partner to our leaders.

In this role you will:

• manage the end to end recruitment process for tech roles at SPAN (Software Engineers, DevOps, QA, PM's, Tech Writers)
• proactively source, attract and recruit elite software engineers and tech talent, ensuring that the candidate experience is world-class
• develop market intelligence > talent mapping, pipeline development and competitor analysis
• understand the current tech landscape, workforce and what drives and motivates technologists
• stay abreast of tech hiring best practices
• report on recruitment activity and undertake administrative tasks for the efficient operation of the recruitment area and Talent Management at large
• support the People Ops team with Culture, Morale & Wellness initiatives
• employer branding and recruitment marketing experience
• level-up our TA function, in essence!

Requirements:

• lives and breathes tech recruitment and loves to provide an excellent service to candidates & internal clients
• multiple years of tech recruitment experience in both agency & in-house environments
• HR or I/O Psychology qualification
• articulate, high level of confidentiality and heaps of integrity
• self-sufficient and able to work with little direct supervision
• takes performance and delivery seriously, but not themselves!