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Team Liquid is a global esports and gaming organization founded in 2000 as a StarCraft clan. The company has evolved into a major player in competitive gaming, esports content, and community building, with operations spanning multiple countries.
The People & Culture team is building a more consistent and scalable recruiting function. You will join as Senior Manager, Global Talent Acquisition, owning recruitment across Team Liquid's global operations. This is a senior, hands-on role combining strategic leadership with direct execution.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own priority searches from intake through offer, developing clear hiring plans, timelines, and candidate pipelines
- Build practical sourcing strategies for different roles and markets, including proactive outreach to passive candidates
- Partner with hiring managers to define realistic requirements, run effective interviews, and make consistent hiring decisions
- Improve recruiting processes across intake, interview planning, evaluation, reference checks, candidate communication, and reporting
- Lead the SmartRecruiters implementation within SAP SuccessFactors, including requirements gathering, workflow design, testing, and adoption
- Maintain reliable recruiting data and report on pipeline health, bottlenecks, hiring progress, and priorities
- Deliver a professional and respectful candidate experience across all searches
- Explore and apply AI tools thoughtfully to improve sourcing research, job descriptions, candidate communications, interview preparation, and recruiting analytics
In your first 90 days, you will learn the business and hiring priorities, build relationships with key stakeholders, assess current recruiting practices, and establish a clear plan for priority searches and the SmartRecruiters rollout.
Team Liquid values six core principles: Integrity, Humility, Pursuing Excellence, Curiosity, Authenticity, and Inclusivity. The company operates with a global mindset, offering in-house chefs at every facility, quarterly Game Days, and three extra global holidays celebrating each continent of operation.
Requirements:
- 5–8 years of progressive talent acquisition experience
- Experience independently managing full-cycle recruitment and improving recruiting processes
- Experience recruiting across multiple countries or regions
- Strong record of sourcing, assessing, and closing candidates, including hard-to-fill roles
- Ability to turn business priorities into recruiting strategy and execute directly
- Confidence advising hiring managers and business leaders on requirements, budgets, market conditions, and tradeoffs
- Strong organization, judgment, discretion, and follow-through
- Experience with applicant tracking systems, sourcing tools, recruiting analytics, and reporting
- Experience in fast-paced, high-performance environments
- Demonstrated curiosity about and hands-on use of AI tools in your work
Bonus qualifications:
- Experience as primary recruiter or in small People & Culture/recruiting teams
- Experience supporting ATS implementation or migration, ideally SmartRecruiters or SAP SuccessFactors
- Experience in esports, gaming, sports, or entertainment
- Experience supporting inclusive hiring practices
- Additional language skills relevant to Team Liquid's operating regions
- Portfolio or personal project demonstrating your thinking
