Talent Specialist

Role Overview

Talent Specialist at Ziina. This is a hands-on, full-cycle recruiting role where you will own your pipelines from first outreach to accepted offer, working with teams across the business.

Role Purpose

Run end-to-end recruiting for assigned roles in a competitive market using outbound-first searches with AI tooling integrated throughout the process. Contribute to a modern, forward-thinking talent function in a growing startup environment.

Key Responsibilities

Pipeline & Sourcing

• Run end-to-end recruiting for assigned roles, from intake to accepted offer, with a consistent, high-quality process across every team you hire for
• Run outbound-first searches in competitive markets
• Source candidates, comfortable when outbound is the main channel
• Close senior or niche roles through outbound sourcing in markets where inbound does not work

Candidate & Hiring Manager Experience

• Deliver a candidate experience you are proud of at every stage
• Partner with hiring managers to understand what their team actually needs and turn it into a clear, realistic role profile
• Help hiring managers and interviewers evaluate well: clear scorecards, useful feedback, calibrated decisions

Reporting & Analytics

• Track your pipeline metrics, notice what is not working, and improve your own hiring outcomes based on data
• Use data and analytics tools to drive insights and decisions
• Contribute recommendations for senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders

Systems & Operations

• Keep recruiting systems accurate and up to date, including ATS, automations, and workflows
• Propose solutions when you see something not working in the recruiting setup, even outside your own roles
• Support process optimization, including ATS management and recruitment automation tools
• Manage job boards, agencies, and other external recruitment partners day to day and track whether they deliver value
• Build dashboards, reports, or process improvements that your team adopts and uses

Strategic Contribution

• Look beyond your own roles: bring ideas on employer brand, candidate experience, and how the company hires, even where you do not own the outcome
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, and operations, to align recruitment strategy with business priorities

Qualifications & Experience

• 3+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including experience in a startup environment
• Significantly contributed to a Talent Acquisition function from the ground up, establishing processes, playbooks, and scalable systems
• Strong sourcing capabilities

Skills & Competencies

• Comfortable using data and analytics tools to drive insights and decisions
• Understand various TA systems and have supported process optimization
• Experience with ATS management and recruitment automation tools
• Detail-oriented mindset with ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment
• Proficiency with AI tools in daily sourcing and screening work, with clear judgment about where human evaluation remains essential
• Ownership mindset: when something blocks your work, you fix it or find the person who can, without waiting to be asked