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Job listing closed on 4 Jul 2024

Senior Recruiter

🇺🇸 New York City, NY, USA
Part Time
8+ years exp.
US$140,000 – US$170,000 per year

WORK OPTION: 4 days/week from the New York, NY office

The NBA is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace. To safeguard our employees and their families, our visitors, and the broader community from COVID-19, and in consideration of recommendations from health authorities and the NBA’s own advisors, any individual working onsite in our New York and New Jersey offices must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The NBA will discuss accommodations for individuals who cannot be vaccinated due to a medical reason or sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance.

Position Summary

Group Summary

At the NBA, we’re passionate about growing and celebrating the game of basketball. Through the intensity of the game and the amazing athletic skill of our players, we deliver excitement to hundreds of millions of fans around the world. As a global sports and media business, the NBA is so much more. While so many of our departments run the league’s on-court activities, manage relationships with television and digital media partners, or develop marketing partnerships with some of the world’ most recognizable companies, our Human Resources team is focused on our people. We’re hard at work ensuring that NBA employees have a safe, supportive, challenging, and rewarding place to come to work each day. We’re a Center of Excellence, made up of subject matter experts from each of our respective fields: Human Resources, Benefits, Compensation, Legal, Talent Acquisition, and more.


Essential Functions and Job Summary

As a member of our collaborative, driven, adaptable, and fast-paced Recruitment team, you will have the responsibility of being an ambassador for our brand, and an advocate for talent. We are looking for a team-oriented, dynamic, hardworking, and creative Senior Recruiter who will take these responsibilities to heart. You are capable of leading full cycle recruitment for hard to fill jobs across all functional areas and levels, including VP+ and C-Suite, as well as Engineering, Data Science, Product Management, Partnerships, Strategy, Marketing, and more. You will even flex to recruit for our international markets and our teams, helping source candidates for key executive positions. You are a self-sufficient professional with a consistent track record of delivering value for Hiring Managers in a fast-paced environment, and successfully managing your candidates’ experience and expectations. You also proactively seek ways to make the process as seamless as possible for your client groups and engage with your clients regularly to provide updates and news. You’re willing to extend yourself to support your colleagues, and ready to present and test new ideas. You learn from the wins as much as the losses, and no matter what, you show up to play tomorrow. You are focused on running a streamlined, inclusive and rigorous recruitment process, because we believe the best possible hires are derived from a diverse representation of talent. You are proactive and seek ways to continuously improve our talent pipeline and process to go after the best talent. This role will directly impact the changing landscape of the NBA, and while you will find yourself challenged, it will all be worthwhile because what we’re building at the NBA is special.

You will be expected to work from our New York office (645 5th Ave.) 4 days/week with the option to work remotely 1 day/week.


Major Responsibilities
• Own full lifecycle recruitment across executive (VP+), technical, and non-technical roles, as well as provide recruitment support to our international offices and NBA teams as needed
• Create strong working relationships with hiring managers and business leaders to develop targeted yet scalable recruitment strategies that attract and engage high potential talent
• Leverage both internal recruitment data and external market intelligence to inform and influence recruitment and hiring decisions
• Ensure an efficient, rigorous, inclusive, and compliant recruitment and hiring process while prioritizing talent diversity and candidate experience
• Collaborate with Talent Sourcers to develop and maintain robust talent pipelines, and deploy job marketing campaigns
• Develop and maintain strong cross functional relationships with various teams across the organization, including Benefits, Compensation, Employee Relations, HR Consulting and Legal
• Bring a breadth of experience and expertise from a career as a Corporate Recruiter to contribute best practices, as well as new and innovative ideas, as a member of our high functioning Talent Acquisition team

Required Education/Professional Experience
• 8+ years of full lifecycle corporate recruitment experience for a global brand
• 4+ years as a full lifecycle Technical Recruiter developing, maintaining, and owning full tech stack pipelines
• Experience in executive search and/or recruiting for senior level positions
• Bachelor’s degree preferred


Required Skills/Knowledge Attributes
• Highly effective communication skills, along with a demonstrated ability to confidently and thoughtfully manage client relationships
• Highly proficient utilizing applicant tracking systems, LinkedIn Recruiter, and various other creative search tools and tactics to find talent
• Deep understanding of recruiting and interview best practices, as well as the expertise to educate and train business partners on effective interview models
• Ability to interface with and influence senior executives
• Experience utilizing internal and external data sources to develop recruitment strategies, make informed business decisions, and provide strategic updates to business leaders

Salary Range: $140,000 - $170,000

We Consider Applicants For All Positions On The Basis Of Merit, Qualifications And Business Needs, And Without Regard To Race, Color, National Origin, Religion, Sex, Gender Identity, Age, Disability, Alienage Or Citizenship Status, Ancestry, Marital Status, Creed, Genetic Predisposition Or Carrier Status, Sexual Orientation, Veteran Status, Familial Status, Status As A Victim Of Domestic Violence Or Any Other Status Or Characteristic Protected By Applicable Federal, State, Or Local Law.

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