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Contract Business Recruiter (Games Services)

Title: Recruiter

Location: Portland, Oregon, USA

Role: Remote

Contract: 3-6 Month Contract

Overview

The role of Recruiter at PTW involves developing strong internal relationships and building talent pools within the niche games sector, globally, for PTW. You will continually research the general landscape of the games industry to continually develop several key prospects for future PTW hires.

You will support PTW’s professional hiring objectives by attracting, identifying, selecting, evaluating, and negotiating offers with candidates that meet our growth goals and ambitions.

This is a challenging role, and you should be able to adapt quickly to new tasks and be an enthusiastic collaborator who thrives under pressure, enjoys working on their own with little to no supervision, is accustomed to being hands-on, and excels when working on Professional Hires with multiple conflicting deadlines. You'll be resilient, adaptable, have endurance and patience, with self-confidence in your own ability and love sharing success. You will also be able to communicate at all levels including C-Suite.

What you will be doing:

• Develop a strong understanding of our professional hiring needs and respond to requests for resourcing support by building relationships with Hiring Managers.
• Lead on professional hiring requisitions mainly focus on sales and marketing roles, using strong sourcing management discipline, working collaboratively with the wider global Talent Acquisition Team.
• Proactively build talent pools and networks; work with our hiring managers to proactively ensure their talent needs are being met on-time and within budget.
• Provide exceptional candidate care and hiring manager/colleague experience.
• Be an ambassador for DEI at PTW by actively integrating DEI into talent acquisition.
• Be a subject matter expert, building a reputation as a high performing Recruiter and adviser to hiring managers.
• General recruitment experience with reporting, posting jobs, headhunting, onboarding, etc.

Requirements

What we are looking for:

• Experience working on Sales and Marketing roles within the video games industry is required.
• Strong track record of success with executive, senior and professional appointments within the gaming industry.
• Experience working in professional resourcing, or executive search.
• Experience working with senior leaders up to and including C-Suite.
• Experienced in building relationships with senior candidates and actively managing talent pipelines/ pools internally and externally.
• An ambassador for DEI, who actively integrates DEI into talent practices/ solutions.
• Strong analytical and strategic problem-solving skills, experience turning high-level hiring needs into impactful talent solutions.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to juggle multiple demanding recruitment requirements concurrently.
• Solid understanding of end-to-end executive recruitment & selection practices.
• Excellent written communication skills, including drafting executive level documents/papers/offer letters, etc.
• Experience of executive sourcing globally (US/Canada/Europe/Asia)
• Experience using ATS systems – Workable for example.

Benefits

Benefits:

• You will be working for the pre-eminent global provider of specialist services to the games industry and provided with full training and the opportunity to work on some of the biggest game clients, titles, projects, and tech in the world.
• Attractive remuneration, holidays, regular team competitions with great prizes; and inclusion into an extensive social calendar. Our environments thrive with collaborative teamwork with people from all around the world, different nationalities, and languages.
• A supportive community inclusive of LGBTQ+, and any age, ethnicity, religion, or disability. We care about the wellbeing of our employees and have a dedicated employee wellbeing programme. We empower our people and offer regular progression opportunities to ensure our employees flourish.
• Remote/Homeworking with flexible working schedules, a fun environment, and a relaxing culture, including the opportunity to work with the leading technology and inventive minds in the world.
• Learn as you work and be part of something real that changes the face of gaming - forever.

Other Benefits:

• Highly Attractive basic salary.
• Collaborating with people creating innovative interactive entertainment.
• Dynamic and entrepreneurial culture.
• Video games focused environment.
• The opportunity to work with video games pioneers creating cutting edge interactive entertainment.

Who we are:

PTW is a boutique games services company that provides custom solutions worldwide. We believe in accelerating innovation across the globe. We started more than 25 years ago and since then, have grown exponentially year-on-year to who we are today. Our history is in gaming, and we are still gamers at heart. In our time within the games industry, we have worked on over 1,500 titles across all genres and all platforms.

We have grown rapidly over the past few years and now have 16 sites spanning the globe. The PTW umbrella of companies includes SIDE, 1518, OR Esports, and Entalize. SIDE works at the cutting edge of interactive media as a provider of audio services for the global entertainment market. 1518 is known industry wide for world-class art and is also our in-house game and product development studio.

Basically, anywhere in the world, any platform, any genre, we can help come up with a custom solution to make games run better, get to market faster, and enhance the lives of more players.

In summary, we connect and bring fun to the world.

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