Reporting to: Head of Talent Acquisition

We are looking for a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to lead full-cycle recruitment across our technical and graduate hiring. You'll be the talent partner for hiring managers across TIME dotCom — sourcing and closing specialist candidates, running our graduate intake, and keeping our recruitment systems and reporting sharp. This role suits someone who is equally comfortable headhunting a niche candidate, running a structured graduate campaign, and pulling a clean hiring dashboard for management.

Key Responsibilities

Full-cycle technical recruitment

Manage end-to-end hiring for specialist and IT roles, including data analytics, network engineering, cybersecurity, software, and cloud
Partner with hiring managers to scope roles, define requirements, and advise on market realities, talent availability, and compensation benchmarks
Proactively source and engage passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, referrals, and direct headhunting, not job-board response alone
Run structured screening and interview processes, and manage candidates through to offer and close

Graduate recruitment

Own the graduate hiring cycle end to end — campus engagement, campaigns, assessment, and selection
Build and manage early-careers pipelines and talent pools for future intakes

ATS and recruitment systems

Administer and maintain the Applicant Tracking System — data hygiene, workflow configuration, and user support
Ensure hiring activity is accurately and consistently captured across the team

Recruitment reporting and dashboards

Build and maintain recruitment dashboards and reporting — time-to-fill, pipeline health, source effectiveness, and other hiring metrics
Translate hiring data into insight for hiring managers and management, and flag risks early

Stakeholder and vendor management

Act as the trusted talent advisor to hiring managers across technical functions
Manage recruitment agency and platform partners where used, and hold them to quality and cost

Requirements

5+ years of full-cycle recruitment experience, with a strong track record hiring technical and IT roles (data, network, cybersecurity, software, cloud, or similar)
Hands-on experience sourcing passive candidates via LinkedIn Recruiter or equivalent, not reliant on inbound applications
Working knowledge of Applicant Tracking Systems, including data management and reporting
Comfortable working with recruitment data — able to build and interpret dashboards and hiring metrics
Experience running graduate or early-careers recruitment is a strong advantage
Enough technical literacy to hold a credible conversation with engineering and IT hiring managers and screen for role fit
Strong stakeholder management — able to influence and advise hiring managers directly
Degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

*Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.