Sourcing, Talent Intelligence, and Research Partner

Job description

The Sourcing, Talent Intelligence, and Research (STAR) Partner function at Wolt plays an exciting part in the role of Talent Acquisition, as we are scaling & driving sophistication in our org design, in order to future-proof Wolt, proactively raising the talent bar as we embark on a continued journey of accelerated growth. 

The STAR team name is not just a fun acronym intended to sound catchy - it is due to our genuine goal of hiring the most awesome sourcers and researchers in the world, who know that attraction of top talent requires a whole ton more than basic InMail outreach. The STAR team won’t merely pipeline-build on behalf of recruiters, in response to immediate open hiring.

Instead you will conduct deep, proactive research into global talent availability, bring market insights, be aware of competitor activity, understand local and international working conditions/comp & benefits, investigate diverse talent pools and more. You will inform the long-term talent attraction strategy at Wolt, bringing intricate data & insights that support the location selection of future talent hubs, while guiding geo expansion.

Whether you are sourcing for entry level or executive talent, you will bring a scientific approach to talent identification, adopt a high-touch approach, carefully headhunting talent and offering an outstanding candidate experience, considering each and every candidate as a first class citizen.

Responsibilities

• Help to build sourcing team processes, tooling & ways of working, ensuring seamless interaction with recruiting and coordination teams for a slick candidate and stakeholder experience
• Utilize tools like TalentNeuron, LinkedIn Insights and more, to produce detailed research that informs the talent strategy for multiple roles types. 
• Partner closely with your TA Partner peers, aligning on who owns what in the attraction work for shared-ownership vacancies and ensuring a joint-up approach in communicating with your shared customers
• Maintain evergreen pipelines for critical-mass roles such as product designer, product lead, data scientist
• Lead deep-dive research projects, for example finding and analysing data to inform geo-strategy for new country/city tech hubs or shared service centres
• Build mechanisms for rapid response to volatility in the market, changing direction quickly to opportunistically scoop up top talent from companies announcing slowdowns or layoffs.
• Use funnel pass-through ratios (screens to interview to assessments to offers to accepts etc) to calculate sourced volume needed at the top end of the funnel to generate high-quality hires
• Contribute to a monthly talent insights newsletter with actionable recommendations
• Support social media attraction campaigns, in partnership with the Employer Branding team, ensure prompt STAR team follow-up with ‘warm leads’ resulting from campaign activity
• Participate in ‘diversathons’ and ‘sourcathons’ with all hands on deck across TA, everyone in it together to source for the trickiest roles
• Stay up to date on the latest AI-based sourcing tools, online & offline events and other opportunities to efficiently attract passive talent
• Build a valuable talent networks & communities that Wolt can leverage for long term branding, networking, direct-sourcing and referrals
• Get creative on where to find talent for niche roles, using advanced scraping/other techniques to pull leads from multiple online and offline sources.
• Be a true talent advisor and competitor talent expert, building deep knowledge of the markets or domain expertise that you support.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in either a sourcing or research/data analytics capacity (especially within Product Management, Product Design and Data Science)
• Candidates without prior talent acquisition/recruiting industry experience can be considered, providing career history and or studies include highly numerical/analytical/research-based expertise/qualifications
• Ability to translate complex data into tangible and actionable insights for partner teams and stakeholders
• Creative approach to problem-solving, ideally with demonstrable experience of identifying and attracting talent for niche roles, in other words magicking rabbits out of hats :-)
• Experience in consultative roles, requiring strong business acumen
• Top notch verbal communication, writing/presentation skills: able to collaborate with TA
• Partners in defining strategic talent plans that can be presented to senior business leaders, able to bring to life Wolt job opportunities to candidates in a compelling manner.