Description
Talent Acquisition Lead (16 Month Contract)
Department: People & Talent
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Remote (Canada)
Reporting To: Mijay Pavon
Compensation: $101,875 - $120,439 / year
Description
We are hiring a Talent Acquisition Lead to join our People & Talent team!
This role will be a 16-month contract to cover a maternity leave and offers you the opportunity to make a significant impact during your tenure.
As a Talent Acquisition Lead, you’ll take the reins of our recruitment strategies for senior, hard-to-fill roles while building and mentoring a high-performing Talent Acquisition (TA) team. You’ll play a vital role in shaping Spare’s workforce, driving innovative recruitment strategies, and influencing company culture. This is an exciting opportunity to develop your leadership skills while working collaboratively with diverse stakeholders across the organization.
Our Spare HQ is in Vancouver, BC, but this position is open to remote work options across Canada. If you like coming into an office, you can work from our HQ as desired, and we also provide a co-working stipend for those who wish to work in an office outside Vancouver.
Key Responsibilities ✨
In this role you will...
- Lead and Mentor: Manage and develop 2 direct reports on the Talent Acquisition team, providing guidance, feedback, and support to help them thrive.
- Drive Recruitment Strategy: own the overall recruitment strategy, ensuring alignment with best practices and driving recruitment-related OKRs.
- Talent Acquisition: Own the end-to-end recruitment experience for senior or hard-to-recruit roles (Director/VP/C-suite for example), ensuring exceptional hiring outcomes.
- Innovate Talent Practices: identify and implement new sourcing techniques, tools, and processes to enhance recruitment efficiency and effectiveness.
- Foster Stakeholder Relationships: Collaborate closely with hiring managers, executive team members, and other stakeholders to align hiring strategies with business needs.
- Manage Vendor Relationships: Own and manage relationships with recruitment-related third-party vendors and agencies, ensuring strong partnerships to support hiring goals.
- Optimize Processes: Use data-driven insights to design and improve Talent Acquisition processes, ensuring compliance and delivering measurable results.
- Champion Diversity and Candidate Experience: Lead efforts to improve candidate diversity and maintain a stellar candidate experience through feedback and strategic initiatives.
- Collaborate on Employer Branding Initiatives: Work closely with other members of the People Team on employment branding initiatives, including career fairs and other events to enhance Spare’s visibility as an employer of choice.
About you ✨
You have...
- Proven experience in Talent Acquisition (7-10 years), including recruiting for senior roles (Director level or above) within a high-growth or fast-paced environment, or within a startup or tech company.
- Demonstrated ability to manage, mentor, and develop junior team members, with a solid understanding of people management principles.
- In-depth knowledge of talent acquisition practices, including market research, compensation benchmarking, and compliance with regional legislation.
- Strong project management skills, with experience designing and implementing recruitment strategies or HR processes.
- Exceptional communication and relationship skills, including the ability to effectively engage and influence executive-level stakeholders.
- Data-driven mindset with proficiency in using software, metrics, and reporting to guide recruitment strategies
It will be considered a plus (nice-to-have):
- Experience hiring for technical roles (including but not limited to, software development, product management, product design, data science, etc.)
- Experience sourcing, engaging and nurturing relationships with passive candidates over time to ensure they are ready to make a move when the right opportunity arises
- Experience and/or passion for transit and public transit industry
Benefits
- Purposeful work: Be a part of a mission-driven company that is solving real-world problems and improving the lives of people around the world. Learn more about the impact we're making in our 2024 Global Impact Report!
- Growth Opportunities: Spare is growing fast and there is uncapped potential for rapid advancement of motivated high performers on our team! 🚀
- Market-competitive pay: We benchmark roles annually to attract and retain top talent. For Growth roles, we also offer a competitive commission/bonus structure that rewards strong performance.
- Stock options: Enjoy the feeling of ownership. All Spartians are provided stock options, so you can share in the growth and success of Spare!
- Flexible work: Work remotely from anywhere in Canada, in your own time zone.
- In-office collaboration: If you're in Metro Vancouver, you have the option to work out of our HQ located downtown, close to Waterfront Station. If you're located elsewhere, you'll have access to CA$200/month to spend on a coworking membership to work together with team members in your city.
- Home office allowance: We recognize the importance of a productive home office setup to help you do your best work, which is why we provide a CA$1,000 home office allowance.
- Team offsites & socials: We love the flexibility of remote work, and we also value the importance of in-person connection. Each team has an annual budget for travel and accommodations to get together for a team offsite or hackathon. Plus you have access to a CA$50 monthly budget to socialize with other Spartians in your city - go out for a meal or hit up a karaoke spot!
- Health insurance: We offer a fully-paid health insurance package for you and your dependents that includes prescription drug, paramedical, mental health, dental, life insurance, travel insurance, and Employee Assistance Program.
- Lifestyle Spending Account: We offer CA$500 per year Lifestyle Spending Account (taxable benefit), which you can use to get reimbursed for a variety of expenses including education, wellness, transportation, and childcare/pet care.