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Senior Technical Sourcer

Electronic Arts

Guildford, United Kingdom 05-21-2021
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Senior (5-10 years) Experience
Job Description

We entertain millions of people across the globe with the most amazing and immersive interactive software in the industry. But making games is challenging. That's why we employ the most creative, passionate people in the industry.

Most companies call it HR. At Electronic Arts we made the deliberate decision to brand our organization People Experience (PE). It is not just a play on words, PE is a team of cultural stewards who carefully create programs and talent strategies that directly impacts our teams' experience and enables our People to achieve the most meaningful work of their careers.

We're responsible for recruiting the best diverse talent on the planet and supporting their growth through learning programs, internal mobility, affinity group participation, and leadership development. We listen to our employees and dive into analytics to anchor our recommendations and decisions to keep engagement high. Last but not least, we're responsible for a total rewards strategy that incentivizes equitably, provides outstanding benefits, and ensures a safe and inspiring workplace for our teams.

The Senior Technical Sourcer will liaise across the organization on all levels to understand recruitment requirements and to act on appropriate deliverable items for European technical roles. The Senior Technical Sourcer's primary focus is to grow the pipelining of talent pools for technical roles, and, on occasion, manage the end-to-end recruitment process (sourcing to offer stage). We ask that you have an honest approach and a customer mindset with candidates, partners, and many other teams that work together to attract and onboard our employees.

Requirements
• Oversee the end-to-end recruitment process, delivering a great experience to both candidates and your partners. Including sourcing, screening, and assessing candidates.
• Partner with Recruiters to share candidates, arrange interviews, and create offer paperwork.
• Be a talent advisor to your hiring managers; encourage understanding, partner engagement, and supporting best practices across the hiring process.
• Research and document industry trends and market intelligence.
• Identify and source candidates using appropriate tools, maintaining an up-to-date applicant tracking system.
• Conduct candidate assessments by phone, Zoom, and in-person interviews.
• Develop a pipeline, by responding to the needs of your partners.
• Create detailed sourcing project plans, which encompass timelines, strategies, cost, resources, and return on investment.
• Track important sourcing data, producing regular and ad-hoc reports.
• Participate in improvement projects across Talent Acquisition.

Qualifications
• 5+ years of technical recruitment/sourcing experience either in-house or in a recruitment agency environment
• Experience recruiting/sourcing across a mix of disciplines and levels of seniority.
• Excellent sourcing and tracking skills to develop high-quality technical talent pipelines.
• Adept account management skills that help provide candidates and hiring managers a great experience.
• Experience managing recruitment workflow in an applicant tracking system.
• Genuine commitment and a desire to work toward excellence.
• Participate and handle challenges with composure.
• Previous full-cycle recruiting experience is of value.
• Work and perform well with deadlines.
• Have a voice and come forward with your prepared ideas.
• Develop and work on regional/global recruitment strategies.
• Experience guiding partners with data.
• Interest in interactive entertainment/gaming (e.g., Consoles/PC/Mobile).

Education
• Bachelor's Degree is desired or equivalent work experience.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d2xw92-3-131-110-169-42 in your application.

Company Profile
Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment. EA develops and delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, mobile devices and personal computers.