Senior Recruiter, Interactive and Gaming

Job Description

WB Games is a leader in the games industry across all game platforms and mobile devices. Our diverse and inclusive workforce creates and brings to life the most beloved characters, franchises, heroes, and wizards in the world. We are fans of what we make and proud of what we do. We have studios and offices across the globe.

The Job

As a Senior Recruiter and part of our Global Interactive and Gaming Talent Team, you'll have one of the most exciting recruitment roles in the industry! Day to day you'll be recruiting across a portfolio of 11 iconic studios including Avalanche, NetherRealm, Rocksteady, TT Games, WB Games Montreal - supporting new launches of some of the worlds most beloved gaming franchises as well as new and innovative projects. This role will report to the Director of Global Interactive TA and be located in one of our game studio hubs - Burbank, LA, San Francisco, Montreal, Chicago, New York City or London with some travel.

The Daily
• Partnering with leaders and HR to understand both current and future business needs.
• Sourcing, interviewing and managing relationships through to offer negotiation and onboarding of new hires.
• Identifying creative sourcing techniques and strategies to find, connect with and recruit top talent.
• Establishing and maintaining meaningful relationships, ensuring a strong network within the creative and technical - interactive and gaming community, creating an on-going pipeline of talent.
• Partnering with the business to ensure a great candidate experience.
• Being our industry ''eyes and ears'', providing unfiltered and actionable feedback on our employer brand.
• Partnering with the business to understand our current market position and working to continuously build on our presence and brand with target demographics.
• Partnering with the Director of Talent to create and execute a strategy for employer branding within your function. This includes, identifying partners, hosting recruiting events, attending external events etc.
• Working with compensation and benefits to both understand and share market data on our remuneration to ensure a competitive advantage.
• Identifying high performing agency partners to support as needed.
• Identifying technology platforms and partners to augment our recruitment efforts.
• Ensuring we support the business 'commercial objectives by maintaining strong cost and time to hire metrics.

The Essentials
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience in Talent Acquisition
• A proven track record in recruiting talent across engineering, product management, creative, marketing and operations.
• Strong interpersonal skills, the gravitas to work effectively with a wide range of internal clients and partners of varying levels of seniority.
• Ability to juggle multiple competing priorities, while remaining composed, thorough and detail oriented.
• Resourceful –able to source talent creatively and cost effectively.
• Excellent listener- the ability to understand candidates' key motivators and articulate aspects of the role, culture and organization that align.
• Strong negotiator – able to attract and close top candidates in high demand.
• Proactive-able to build strong talent pipelines within growth areas

The Nice to Haves
• Proactive
• Solution oriented
• Creative
• Quick learner
• Ability to be agile and pivot on short notice

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits…
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. $83,090.00 - $154,310.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@warnermedia.com.

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