Senior Technical Recruiter at 2U

What We're Looking For:

The Senior Technical Recruiter is critical in identifying and hiring top Tech talent to join our organization. The Senior Technology Recruiter is responsible for proactively sourcing, screening, interviewing, and placing qualified candidates, partnering with our hiring managers throughout the full candidate life-cycle. The Senior Technical Recruiter serves as an advisor to our 2U managers and senior leaders to provide expert guidance.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

Recruitment:

• Manages the full candidate life-cycle through proactively sourcing, posting, screening, interviewing, and placing qualified software engineering, and IT professionals to fill technical positions
• Leverages experience and expertise to optimize the candidate experience
• Creatively attracts top talent in a timely and cost effective manner using multiple sources to advertise and recruit
• Develops networking and referral base using social networking and other innovative methods to identify desired candidates
• Sources and recruits candidates through direct recruiting efforts
• Identifies and attends job fairs, meetups, and other events for candidate engagement
• Internal Stakeholder Relationship Management:
• Serves as a trusted advisor to 2U's hiring managers and HRBPs, providing expert guidance on the target market, target companies, expected talent pool volume, hiring specifications, job descriptions, and action plans to maximize candidate sourcing, etc. to ultimately ensure the hiring managers are confident with their hiring decisions
• Provides regular updates to hiring managers on hiring progress and challenges
• Works closely and effectively with coordinator to schedule candidate interviews and with scouts (if applicable) to identify and engage hard-to-find talent
• Continuously grows talent communities across targeted talent pools to maintain a strong 2U candidate pipeline
• Fully engages with the hiring managers and broader 2U leadership to maintain open communication around hiring needs and the available talent pipeline

Systems:

• Interfaces with 2U's applicant tracking system to optimally track all phases of the candidate life-cycle
• Fully owns the data quality and data integrity in 2U's applicant tracking system relevant to their job requisitions that they manage in addition to monitoring for data accuracy across the system
• Continuous Improvement:
• Shares Recruiting and sourcing best practices across the team
• Coaches more junior employees
• Proactively seeks new knowledge, skills, and trends and shares with the team
• Partners closely with the Recruiting Leadership team on process improvements and provides solid recommendations to enhance the overall team functioning

Things That Should Be In Your Background:

• 3 - 5+ years experience in Tech, IT or Engineering recruiting; previous experience in a high-volume staffing, agency or corporate setting a plus
• Experience supporting a fast-paced, high growth organization
• Knowledge of employment law relative to hiring and interviewing required
• Previous experience using an applicant tracking system
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent organizational skills
• Demonstrated computer skills in one or more of the following: Google suite, MS Office products
• Other attributes that will help you be successful in this role:
• Strong business acumen

Other Attributes That Will Help You In This Role:

• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment
• Ability to juggle multiple competing priorities
• Proactive attitude with a propensity to learn
• Enthusiasm and the ability to thrive in an environment of constant change
• Knowledge of various social media networking/recruiting sites a plus