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Senior Recruitment Professional

Sledgehammer Games

Guildford, United Kingdom 11-03-2021
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Senior (5-10 years) Experience
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Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Melbourne, Australia, Toronto, Canada and Guildford, UK – Sledgehammer Games is the videogame development team behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare and Call of Duty®: WWII. Since our founding in 2009, our greatest passion has been making AAA games. The strength of our team makes us not only excellent at what we do, but also how we do it. We firmly believe in supporting our passionate employees to be the best they can be. Here at Sledgehammer Games, everyone is a game maker.

We are constantly evolving and innovating – which are some of the most rewarding aspects of game development. With our extraordinary audio, design, engineering and art teams, we've been able to achieve some of the highest-quality game execution of any studio in the industry. We love making games and we work hard to make sure that each new game we make is even better than the last. Creativity is key, and we're looking for dedicated game developers for our exciting next project.

Sledgehammer Games is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, please visit us at www.sledgehammergames.com or search for Sledgehammer Games on your favorite social media platform. Want to hear what it's like at the studio directly from current employees? Check out our #LifeatSHG developer profiles: https://youtu.be/12DUBszg-w4

Your Mission

As a Talent Professional (Recruiter) supporting the Sledgehammer Games Studio you will drive full life-cycle recruiting. We know that it takes great talent to make great games, so we're always seeking out Talent Professionals that demonstrate enthusiasm for our industry, passion for our people, and the motivation to support our studio on the path to success. Our Talent Professionals build trust and credibility with the business and act as consultants to hire the amazing people for our open roles.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Run the end-to-end recruiting process for game development roles including Software Engineers, 3D Artists. Game Designers and more.
• Partnering with recruitment coordinators and talent sourcers to find, attract, assess, and hire for all open roles.
• Collaborate with hiring managers to understand their team's talent needs, develop a tailored sourcing strategy, provide advice and implement the plans to assess and hire top talent.
• Source and build pipelines of candidates using all available systems and tools.
• Serve up a high-touch candidate experience from first outreach through a new hire's first days with timely communication and a diligent follow-through.
• Facilitate interview process, hiring decisions, and offer negotiations.
• Partner with HR to support new hire onboarding tasks including employment contracts, visa documentation, orientation, onboarding paperwork and other related projects.
• Help ensure recruiting data integrity by using our ATS (Workday Recruit) to optimize and document your work.
• Apply data and analytics to drive decision-making with partners.
• Partner with University Relations, Kaleidocope, and Executive Recruiting as needed
• Work with your colleagues in systems, assessment, analytics, talent attraction, and talent planning to level up your broader skills and knowledgebase.
• Be a proactive ambassador and aly, for diversity, equity, inclusion efforts in all things we do.

Minimum Requirements:
• 5+ years or more, as a full life-cycle recruiter, including proactive sourcing.
• 2+ years of in-house recruiting experience (rather than agency/search firm).
• Experience handling multiple searches and client relationships simultaneously.
• Proficiency with applicant tracking systems, CRMs, and internet sourcing tools.
• Strong communication and influencing skills across all levels of an organization.
• Well organized with the ability to learn and adapt quickly
• Great teammate who approaches challenges and change with positivity.

Extra Points:
• Bachelor's degree preferred
• 1+ years or more, Recruiting experience working withing either the Video Games, Animation or VFX Industry.
• Proficiency with Workday Recruit

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-dyo99p-52-14-121-242-42 in your application.

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Sledgehammer Games

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