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Technical Recruiter
4 years ago
Pocket Gems seeks to build the greatest games and most compelling interactive entertainment in the world. That’s the mission our founders began with in an apartment above a pizza shop back in 2009 and it continues to inspire us today. Since then, we’ve grown to over 200 people in San Francisco, and with $155 million in backing from Sequoia Capital and Tencent, we’re constantly breaking new ground in mobile entertainment.
Our products have been downloaded over 450 million times by players around the world. In recent years, we’ve launched Episode, a mobile storytelling network and platform, and War Dragons, a visually stunning 3D real-time strategy game. As our community of players continues to grow, we’re committed to building diverse and inclusive environments across our teams, and in our games.
As a Technical Recruiter , you will partner directly with our various engineering teams to discover, recruit, and hire top engineering talent. We want our Tech Recruiter to be able to float effortlessly between both the recruiting team and the engineering team, creating and sustaining a seamless partnership and growth effort. This is a high impact role where you’ll own full-cycle recruiting, drive and execute sourcing strategies, and deliver highly quality candidate experience. Our ideal teammate is someone who embraces a creative and learning environment and is willing to try new things!
What You’ll Do:
- Drive the full cycle engineering recruitment process - source candidates for a variety of engineering roles, interview, recommend, and host them onsite
- Coach candidates on how to effectively interview with our teams
- Provide data-driven recommendations around interviewing and hiring decisions for our internal partners
- Identify gaps and continually improve our hiring processes
- Play a significant role in closing candidates
- Collaborate and share learnings and questions with our recruiting team throughout interviewing and hiring, as well as creating and running programs, events, and various initiatives that contribute to growing both our brand and our company
What You Bring to the Recruiting Team:
- 5+ years experience (at minimum 3 years as an in-house tech recruiter)
- Demonstrable knowledge of technologies and career paths for software engineers
- Ability to converse comfortably with and act as a thought partner to engineers and Hiring Managers
- Proven track record of being able to source and hire senior engineers
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to shift focus and priorities easily, iterating quickly to do the best thing for our candidates and our team
- Bachelor’s degree required
Extra Gems for:
- Experience in gaming or entertainment industry
Pocket Gems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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