Talent Acquisition Manager - Technology

Talent Acquisition Manager

London

The world is changing.

We all want something different.

At Luno, we see you as an individual.

Together, we're upgrading the world of work to unleash your potential and empower you to become the best possible version of yourself.

Upgrading the entire planet to a new financial system is a challenge of epic proportions. Like the first moon landing, it requires a special kind of people working together with unusual skill, focus and determination. We’re changing the financial landscape, and to do so, we need the best team on board for our mission. In short, to achieve our goals, we need people with exceptional talent. As simple as that.

A little about us

• We make it safe and easy to buy, store and learn about cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
• We currently have over 5 million customers across 40 countries.
• We're part of the Digital Currency Group, a group of companies driving progress in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space that includes Grayscale, Genesis, Coindesk and Foundry Services
• Our platform has processed over $14 billion to date
• We’re proud to be one of the world’s most international cryptocurrency teams from 43 different nationalities — working across South Africa, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Nigeria and Singapore.

The role in a nutshell

Luno’s TA team makes sure that Luno attracts and hires the best talent in the market. Our global team consists of passionate individuals immersed in external talent pools bringing the Luno story and mission to diverse and innovative talent pools to realise our vision.

We are looking for someone to join our global team and lead hiring activity for our technical teams (Engineering, Product & Data Science). You will help scale up the business, by proactively building talent pipelines, managing employer brand campaigns and initiatives, lead or support people team projects

• You will report to Daisy who oversees the Global Talent Acquisition function for Luno. This role will support global technical recruitment which includes Countries, Marketing, PR, Emerging Markets. The Talent Acquisition Team is a global team with people based in South Africa, South East Asia and London offices and forms part of the People team function within Luno.

Your mission will involve

• leading shaping and leading our hiring practices, ensuring scalability as we continue to accelerate our hiring across engineering, product and data science
• Managing your own workload and range of vacancies across multiple geographic locations, whilst leading a Team to also deliver
• Partnering with Build function stakeholders, advising and providing expert advice on all areas of TA to support hiring needs and strategy
• You will use data insights to shape current and future hiring goals as well as track against wider recruitment delivery objectives
• Be a Luno ambassador and building our employer brand as a “best place to work” for top talent in new markets
• Proactively manage candidate experience via our ATS ensuring the highest data integrity
• Lead and engage in recruitment branding outreach events representing Lunos employer Global Employer brand.
• Assisting with the implementation of specific products and team re-organisation, to align with a wider transformation project and change initiative.
• As a Talent Acquisition lead you will coach and mentor more junior members as the team grows
• Proactively sourcing and attracting candidates by using a variety of creative methods (not just LinkedIn or our careers page)
• You will use data insights to shape current and future hiring goals as well as track against wider recruitment delivery objectives

In your first six months, you will

• Have built strong relationships with key stakeholders understanding challenges and potential and outlying solutions to bottlenecks
• Help ramp up the hiring as per the headcount strategy as well as provide project support or own your own projects
• Have integrated yourself into the global team
• Understand Luno's hiring processes, policies and practices and where you fit in the matrix
• Learnt Luno's ATS for candidate management and reporting

‘ The ideal Lunaut for this role will have’

• A minimum of 2 years of demonstrable experience leading technical recruitment across multiple geographic locations ( preferably including the U.S)
• Essential, excellent Boolean, LinkedIn and alternative search techniques
• Proven ability driving performance in a high growth tech environment
• Expert knowledge of recruitment and sourcing tools and techniques.
• Proven ability in developing and leading large-scale recruiting strategies and campaigns with multiple media channels and sizeable stakeholder groups
• Collaborative team player across the Recruitment Leadership Team – driving inclusion, seeking continuous improvement through and leading by example in all aspects of your role
• Previous experience developing and executing recruiting function development strategies including and branding, process improvement and best practice
• Demonstrable experience consulting and managing senior stakeholders hiring managers to understand their hiring needs and proactively looking for opportunities to find talent for their respective positions.

Remote Life at Luno

If you’re looking to work on something truly global and disruptive with a forward-thinking and ambitious team that highly values diversity, teamwork, and the continuous quest for excellence, then this is an opportunity for you. Like the majority of the companies, Luno is currently working remotely to keep our employees safe, which means you will not be physically, but virtually onboarded for now!

• You'll be able to continuously upskill yourself with access to free online learning via MyAcademy, an international teaching marketplace with over 100000 courses from Harvard and other leading providers + share knowledge with your peers.
• Live long and prosper. We’ve got you covered with excellent private medical insurance.
• Generous maternity/paternity and even (yes, you are reading it correctly) paw-ternity for your furry friend.
• Annual Inspiration Day... like that pottery course you’ve always been meaning to do!
• Work with a diverse team of hardworking, ambitious and friendly people on something that will truly revolutionise the financial world.
• We are a social bunch of people, we have virtual quarterly activities and drinks Fridays for whoever wants to join!
• We have virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts to break up your day and work that other part of your brain.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not negatively discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.