Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
This position stands out for its leadership role in talent acquisition within a growing tech environment, promoting significant professional development.
- Leadership role offers significant influence on talent strategy
- Excellent growth prospects within thriving tech environment
- Focus on enhancing recruitment efficiency and candidate experience
Pros
- Opportunity to lead and mentor a dynamic recruitment team.
- High relevance within the fast-evolving EdTech sector.
- Chances for strategic impact on the organization’s growth.
Cons
- High expectations and pressure to meet recruitment goals.
- Potentially high workload due to rapid hiring needs.
- Navigating ambiguity in a fast-paced startup environment.
Who it's for
Mid to Senior • Hybrid / Office-based
Good fit
- Experienced talent acquisition professionals
- Leaders with a passion for recruitment and team development
- Candidates looking to impact company culture significantly
Not recommended for
- New recruiters without leadership experience
- Those preferring transactional over strategic recruitment
- Candidates who cannot handle high-pressure recruitment targets
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Cialfo is a leading platform connecting students, higher education institutions, and counselors through technology-driven solutions. Launched in 2017 with a mission to make education accessible to 100 million students, Cialfo provides a range of mobile and web solutions to students, K-12 institutions, and higher education institutions. We’re one of the fastest-growing tech startups in the region, consistently charting new heights!
We’ve always got our colleagues and their experience in Cialfo at the forefront of everything we do. Our passion for people and their success helps us steer the growth of Cialfo, in terms of recruiting, retaining, and supporting our talented colleagues. We’re a diverse crew of foodies, gym enthusiasts, and bakers. If you’re ready to make a global impact in education and technology, join us today.
About This Role
As the Talent Acquisition Manager, you will be responsible to drive recruitment strategies and directions for hires across our global and remote offices, with the end goal of cultivating a culture of high performance within the organization. This would entail holding regular conversations with business leaders to identify the capabilities, experience, and potential of current employees, and align those with the organization’s growth strategy in order to reveal talent gaps and development needs. You will likewise assume a hands-on role in the recruitment process, such as sourcing, screening, and interviewing potential candidates. This role reports to the Head of Talent Acquisition.
What You Will be Doing
- Manage and provide mentorship to the Talent acquisition team to deliver on individual and team’s KPIs.
- Partner with stakeholders to execute on Cialfo’s hiring strategy.
- Work closely with business to understand organization structure, responsibilities. strengths/weaknesses and key business drivers. utilize this information to develop most effective recruiting strategies.
- Identify, approach, interview and assess a diverse pool of candidates ranging from junior level to executive level positions.
- Build strong talent pipelines, execute sourcing campaigns and engage with talent throughout the entire recruitment process.
- Deliver an amazing, engaging and positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.
- Build compelling job descriptions and advertise them on appropriate channels, job boards.
- Perform recruitment data collection and analysis.
- Spearhead and lead end to end talent acquisition project management.
About You
- Qualification
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in the relevant field.
- Experience
- 4+ years of recruitment experience working in a fast paced environment.
- Proven leadership experience managing and building a team of Talent acquisition professionals.
- Extensive knowledge of recruitment and sourcing tools, techniques and mediums.
- Tech savvy and comfortable with GSuite, LinkedinR and Greenhouse or other ATS.
- Works well in a fast-paced environment and is able to move fast to make things happen!
- Skills and Qualities
- Ability to deliver results with little supervision in a start-up, hyper-growth environment with capacity to effectively manage multiple requests and candidates simultaneously.
- Ability to work in a changing environment, comfortable dealing with ambiguity.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, solution-driven, highly organized and detail-orientated with good decision making and time management skills.
- Able to communicate (written, verbal) well with colleagues from various departments.
