Lead Recruiter Tech Product at Red Badger

• 2 months initial contract (possibility to extend)
• Immediate Start 
• Hand on delivery role, finding candidates both permanent and freelance and guiding them through hiring our process to onboarding
• 2 days / week in person working 
• Must have experience of hiring permanent and freelance candidates in Tech and Tech related roles (Software Engineers, Delivery Leads, Product managers, Product Designers, QA's) 
• Competitive day rate
• Outside IR35 (or umbrella) 
• Immediate interviews

At Red Badger, our purpose is to make a positive impact on the world around us. Our mission is to transform blue-chips into next generation digital product organisations.

Founded in 2010 by Stuart, Cain and David, we help large organisations improve their speed to market whilst focusing on delivering value to their users and customers. We work with our clients to understand their problems and validate ideas in order to deliver improved process efficiencies, strategic enhancements and new digital products and services (or make significant improvements to existing ones).

The best bit about Red Badger is, of course, the team. We’ve been around for 10+ years now and we are 120 strong. We are really proud of our people; we support and learn a lot from each other; we work really hard but have fun doing it. We are a diverse group made up of 22 different nationalities, speaking 17 different languages.

Our 3 founders, have considerable tech and consultancy experience and still own the company. We’ve been consistently profitable and have grown responsibly from the beginning. We are embarking on the next phase of growth and development.

The role

Reporting to the recruitment manager, working in close collaboration with the hiring team and the wider business, the Internal Recruiter role at Red Badger is primarily a hands on delivery role, enabling the company to make high quality & timely hires across multiple departments and levels. 

The Internal Recruiter will focus on:

• Ownership and delivery of structured, detailed, measurable and repeatable end to end hiring processes.
• Consistently bringing amazing candidates into hiring processes.
• Identifying areas for improvements in process.

 

 

Key Responsibilities

Delivery of high quality, detailed and repeatable hiring processes

• Working with the Recruitment Manager to bring hiring managers and hiring panels together to collaborate in clearly defining role requirements, interview stages & scorecards.
• Helping to ensuring every hiring process is highly structured 
• Helping to run workshop style role kick off meetings, to ensure clarity at the beginning of each hiring process. 
• Helping to guide a group of individuals to a clear & shared understanding of hiring requirements, interview stages, and how to identify fit with requirements
• Helping to organise and facilitate wash-up meetings at the end of interview processes, and helping to guide a hiring manager and a hiring panel to make a good, quantifiable hiring decision. 

Being an expert sourcer

• High proficiency in proactively identifying, reaching out to, converting and hiring passive candidates.
• Skilled at building excellent peer level relationships with candidates in the hiring process. 
• Skilled at selecting appropriate candidates to progress to interview stages
• Skilled at building diverse and inclusive candidate pipelines.
• Skilled at selling opportunities appropriately, and ensuring the company hires the candidates who are offered positions. 
• Disciplined in sharing constructive feedback with all candidates who engage with Red Badger’s hiring process, regardless of whether they’re successful or not. 
• Proficient with Greenhouse ATS (or similar) 

Collaborative yet Independent work & great judgement  

• Whilst Red Badger is a very supportive and collaborative environment, the Internal Recruiter is expected to be able to work autonomously in generating strong candidate pipelines & to be able to exercise great judgement in bringing problems and blockers to the attention of the team. 
• The Internal Recruiter will build towards becoming a trusted and expert advisor to the business in all things recruitment and hiring. 

Project work, unlocking new channels & metrics 

• Hiring at Red Badger is in a constant state of improvement. As a member of the hiring team you’ll be expected to help identify process improvements, new ways of attracting candidates, and working with the team to bring this to fruition.
• New attraction channel identification
• Diversity hiring and inclusion
• Employer value proposition 
• Employer branded content production 
• Hiring process

Metrics, measuring and data 

• Hiring at Red Badger is in a constant state of improvement. We’re building out a set of tools that we can use to measure the success of our efforts to improve, particularly in: 
• Diversity hiring
• Building new attraction channels 
• Understanding and improving our hiring process
• Providing useful and easily digestible information to the Leadership team to enable better business decisions. 

 

 

Your experience 

It’d be great if you have  

• Experience of organising and facilitating high quality end to end recruitment processes 
• You know technical candidate markets and cross-functional development teams 
• You love measuring progress against a wide variety of objectives
• You love building relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders  

It’d be amazing if you also 

• Love hiring to build diverse and inclusive teams 

 

Red Badger Values:

1. People people
   We respect and care for each other, giving us the space to be our true selves.
2. Find a way
   We’re comfortable with uncertainty, and want to take ownership for outcomes, which we are proactive in delivering.
3. Always learning
   We’re curious. It’s how we learn and grow as individuals, continuously testing and improving what we do, and how we do it.
4. Open & Fair
   We build trust by telling things as they are, being open, and seeking to achieve fair and equitable outcomes.
5. Collaborative
   We are united by our desire to get to the best ideas.  We are generous with our knowledge, actively listen to each other, and are open minded.

Diversity & Inclusion:

Red Badger is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment, and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire, employ, train, promote and compensate regardless of gender, gender identity, race, disability, sexual orientation, age, creed and colour. We are fully focused on equality, and it is our fundamental belief that the fascinating characteristics that make us all different enable us to continue to do amazing work for our clients.