About the Role
Stake is seeking a Talent Acquisition Sourcing Specialist to join their People team. This role is crucial for finding and engaging exceptional talent across various functions during a significant growth phase. It's a sourcing-first position focused on building talent pools and scalable sourcing systems to enhance hiring processes.
Responsibilities
- Build proactive talent pipelines across engineering, customer success, operations, product and business functions.
- Identify and engage exceptional candidates through creative sourcing strategies across LinkedIn, communities, referrals, events and other networks.
- Partner closely with talent partners and hiring managers to deeply understand role requirements, hiring context and what exceptional talent looks like.
- Translate hiring briefs into thoughtful talent strategies, unpacking transferable skills and identifying adjacent profiles others may overlook.
- Build structured talent maps and market insights across key competitor and talent landscapes.
- Design and improve sourcing workflows using AI and automation to reduce manual work and improve speed, quality and candidate experience.
- Leverage Zapier, Claude, and juicebox.ai to create smarter recruiting workflows and stronger candidate engagement.
- Build and nurture warm talent pools for future hiring needs, creating thoughtful candidate touchpoints over time.
- Deliver a responsive, high quality and human candidate experience from first interaction through to process coordination.
- Continuously refine sourcing approaches, outreach messaging and operational processes based on feedback, data and evolving business needs.
Requirements
- You genuinely love sourcing and have strong instincts for identifying exceptional talent across both obvious and non-obvious backgrounds.
- You’re highly curious about AI and automation, and actively look for ways to improve workflows and candidate experience.
- You have strong judgement and can quickly calibrate on talent quality, role requirements and hiring priorities.
- You communicate clearly, move quickly and build trust through responsiveness, follow through and thoughtful collaboration.
- You’re adaptable and coachable, able to absorb feedback quickly and refine your approach without losing momentum.
- You enjoy partnering closely with talent partners, hiring managers and teammates to solve hiring challenges together.
Skills
- AI and automation
- Zapier
- Claude
- juicebox.ai
Location
- CBD office
- hybrid working model
Work Type
- 6-month contract
- hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Career relevant development and training with professional development allowance
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Childcare allowance
- Sonder - healthcare, safety support and EAP for you and your immediate family
- Additional leave types (Swap days, Bear Days, TOIL, Compassionate, Sorry Business)
- Employee Share Options scheme for senior leaders
- Stake products: SMSF 30% discount on yearly membership fee, $295 AUD annual trading credit and Stake Black account
- Recognition awards and team celebrations
- Discretionary performance bonus and talent referral bonus
About the Company
- Stake is an Australian investing platform that helps ambitious people confidently grow their wealth.
- They offer seamless, immersive access to the share markets, empowering a new wave of investors.
- Stake has grown fast from a fintech startup into a robust financial services company with over 750,000 customers and more than A$5 billion under administration.
- The company culture is driven by ambition, continuous growth, collaboration, and a high-performance environment.
- Their shared vision is to unleash the investor in everyone, reshaping the financial industry and inspiring investor confidence.
Equal Opportunity
- Stake is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity.
- They are proactive about providing an inclusive work environment and do not discriminate based on race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status.
- Endorsed by WORK180 as a great employer for women.
- Placed 1st in the 2024 AFR BOSS Best Places to Work list for the Banking, Superannuation & Financial Services category, across all of Australia and New Zealand.
