Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

• Own end-to-end recruitment for senior leadership, specialist and business-critical positions, including sensitive or confidential searches where required
• Translate business priorities into clear hiring briefs, advising leaders on role scope, candidate profiles, seniority, location, compensation and assessment
• Build and execute targeted search strategies using talent mapping, direct sourcing and personalised engagement
• Lead kick-offs, calibration sessions and hiring discussions to clarify expectations, challenge assumptions and support timely, evidence-based decisions
• Assess leadership capability, relevant experience and transferable backgrounds
• Manage complex offers, counter-offers and sensitive candidate conversations
• Coach colleagues through search reviews, candidate calibration and feedback on sourcing, assessment and stakeholder conversations
• Help diagnose stalled searches, refine approaches and resolve difficult hiring challenges
• Support priority searches beyond the assigned portfolio and partner with the Global Talent Acquisition Lead on critical hiring and capacity constraints
• Share effective practices and turn successful approaches into tools, guidance and team ways of working
• Use recruitment data, market insight and candidate feedback to identify risks and recommend action
• Maintain accurate records and reporting in Greenhouse
• Strengthen structured, inclusive assessment practices and candidate experience
• Lead improvements to sourcing, assessment, workflows and automation, demonstrating impact on hiring quality, conversion, speed and candidate experience

• A strong track record of personally delivering senior, complex and business-critical hires across commercial and business functions, ideally within iGaming and/or FinTech
• Experience leading targeted searches for leadership and director-level appointments, from initial scoping and market mapping through to offer acceptance
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a player-coach: delivering your own recruitment portfolio while improving the judgement, capability and effectiveness of colleagues
• Credibility with senior stakeholders, including evidence of constructively challenging requirements, influencing hiring decisions and navigating competing priorities
• Strong hands-on capability in direct sourcing, candidate assessment, offer negotiation and closing
• Commercial understanding and the ability to connect hiring decisions to business priorities, quickly building knowledge of unfamiliar functions or talent markets
• Sound judgement and discretion when handling ambiguous requirements, sensitive appointments and complex candidate conversations
• The ability to translate recruitment data and market evidence into clear recommendations and practical interventions
• Significant hands-on experience using Greenhouse for workflow management, data quality, reporting and stakeholder visibility
• Evidence of improving recruitment processes or tools. Experience with Greenhouse integrations, automation or other recruitment technology would be an advantage
• High autonomy, accountability and a consistent commitment to inclusive, evidence-based and candidate-centred hiring

• Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
• A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
• 28 days annual leave
• Top of the line equipment
• Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities