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SalaryRole:Technical Recruiter
Type: Full Time
Location: Seattle, Hybrid
Who You Are:
Getty Images is hiring a Technical Recruiter to join our team in Seattle! The Technical Recruiter is responsible for working closely with our Technology and Product functions to strategically approach and execute hiring needs, ensuring that top talent gravitates towards and is well-positioned within Getty Images. As a trusted partner, you have proven success in collaborating with tech leaders and hiring managers and a broad scope of recruiting experience across a variety of technical roles and for all levels of an organization – full-stack, front and back-end Engineering, Search, Data Science, AI, Machine Learning, UI/UX, and Product. You excel at attracting and hiring top technical talent and have strong industry knowledge and understanding of current and emerging trends and technologies. You are well-connected in the tech industry and bring with you an already established pipeline of potential candidates, with the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with passive candidates through networking and outreach.
You are ready for a high impact role, which provides autonomy for how you do your work while prioritizing strong collaboration and partnership with the business. You seamlessly integrate yourself within the Technology and Product functions while positively representing the Talent Acquisition team and Human Resources function. You excel in owning the complete scope of tech recruiting which includes full lifecycle recruiting and creation of strategic hiring plans, processes, and documentation. You take initiative, think creatively, work strategically, and have strong problem-solving skills. You are focused and productive during slow and active hiring times, and consistently put in a concerted effort at work. You are excited to work for a well-known, global media organization and public company that relies on a knowledgeable and committed technical team. As the Technical Recruiter, you can’t wait to make a strong impact through the design and execution of the tech recruiting strategy.
Your Next Challenge:
- Responsible for serving as the primary recruiter for our Technology and Product functions, focusing on hiring across multiple locations including Seattle, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin, New York, and Madison, and for other global technical roles.
- Enhance tech recruiting and contribute to shaping our strategy, which includes understanding our Technology function goals and leadership’s vision and maintaining a steady headcount of approximately 350 tech employees while prioritizing hard-to-fill, critical roles.
- Collaborate closely with senior leaders and hiring managers to thoroughly grasp role and skill requirements, team dynamics, technical specifications, and company culture. Apply this insight and data to develop informed hiring plans and make strategic candidate decisions.
- Establish a robust and comprehensive tech recruiting knowledge base by crafting and maintaining effective strategies, processes, documentation, and data.
- Proactively and resourcefully engage with candidates through various channels, using impactful methods to generate interest and actively facilitate initial connections.
- Develop and maintain pipelines of passive candidates to address current and future hiring needs.
- Own the end-to-end recruitment process, ensuring an exceptional candidate experience from initial contact to offer and negotiation. Meticulously track candidate data and interactions in our ATS.
- Foster strong, trusted relationships with hiring managers by being highly responsive, communicating clearly, listening to their needs, prioritizing tasks, providing regular updates, and transparently explaining hiring practices and procedures to enhance effectiveness.
- Conduct technical interviews and assessments with hiring teams to evaluate candidates' skills, expertise, and alignment with our principles-based culture. Act as a positive ambassador for Getty Images within the tech community, enhancing our employer brand to attract top talent.
- Collaborate with agencies when necessary to secure both contractors and full-time employees, emphasizing speed and improving cost efficiencies.
- Engage and present diverse slates of candidates for each role and maintain relationships and partnerships with diverse associations and platforms to further our goals of rejecting bias and discrimination and being inclusive of difference voices, perspectives, and experiences.
- Maintain a hybrid in-office/remote capacity, spending minimally 2-3 days per week in the Seattle office to foster strong connections with tech staff and leadership.
What You'll Need:
- Proven experience sourcing and recruiting top technical talent with ideally 4 or more years of direct technical recruiting experience.
- Ability to build strong and trusted partnerships with tech leaders and hiring managers, providing recruiting expertise and thoughtful consultation.
- Regarded as a team player who maintains strong connections with recruiting peers, collaborates well with HR partners, and engages with accountability.
- Ability to use data to present current and future recruiting strategies, demonstrating where we have candidate success and where we need to shift and consider other avenues to success.
- Able to balance all aspects of the recruiting lifecycle, from sourcing candidates through to offer.
- Experience working with recruitment software and reporting, with technical precision and solid attention to detail. Manages candidate data and recruitment activities in an ATS with diligence, maintaining accurate records and ensuring data completeness. Adheres to data management protocols to support informed decision-making and compliance.
- Has a growth mindset and positive outlook, determination, and resilience.
- Effective communicator in both writing and speech. Able to produce detailed plans, processes, and documents, with openness to iteration and improvement. Highly responsive to team members and candidates. Strong presentation and influencing skills, specifically with senior leadership.
- Experience with external branding activities, with a savvy approach to social media engagement, networking events, and talent community building. Positively represents the business with professionalism and enthusiasm.
- Excellent prioritization, time management, and project management skills, with the ability to meet deadlines and pivot and adapt to address emerging needs.
- Experience working across regions and time zones with flexibility to expand working hours to better reach candidates and colleagues.
What You Can Expect (Physical and Mental Demands and Requirements):
- Frequent communication with others to exchange information. (Required)
- Frequent sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing; Time of each will vary. (Required)
- Constant operation of computer and frequent usage of other office machinery, including (but not limited to) calculator, copy machine, computer printer, etc. (Required)
- Frequent repetition of motions and gestures that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers. (Required)
- Constant assessment of accuracy and thoroughness of the work assignment. (Required)
Benefits at Getty Images
Health Insurance
We provide Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance for you and your family. We partner with Meritain (An Aetna Company), and CVS Caremark to provide you with two options for medical coverage - a POS plan and an HSA-qualified (Health Savings Account) Plan. The POS plan comes with a $200 per year Getty Images contribution to an FSA account. If you enroll in the HSA plan, Getty Images will give you $1400-$2400 per year to spend on any qualified health expenses. Dental insurance is available through Delta Dental. Vision Insurance is available through VSP. All full-time employees working at least 25 hours per week will become eligible for health benefits the 1st of the month following their date of hire. Contributions to health care accounts are prorated based on the date of hire. For more information on these benefits, you may request an electronic copy of our Benefits Guide.
Time off Work/life balance is important to us
We provide a flexible time off policy. Additionally, we pay 4 weeks of fully-paid Parental Leave for new parents, with primary caregivers eligible for an additional 8 weeks of fully-paid leave.
Company Paid Holidays
Employees enjoy company-paid holidays for each of our global locations.
Disability and Life Insurance
We automatically enroll and pay for Basic Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance (AD&D) up to 2 times your annual salary. We also provide you with fully paid Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability Insurance.
Employee Assistance Program
Employees have access to free, confidential assistance for everyday problems such as stress management, financial coaching, marital or family issues, substance abuse, occupational problems, and referrals for legal, childcare, and eldercare services. Employees can seek additional discounts on other wellness activities such as travel, gym memberships, and sports! Through our EAP services, employees are also eligible for 3 free counseling visits and life coaching sessions.
401(k)
Start saving for retirement! Getty Images matches up to 4% of your deferred compensation, with immediate vesting – that means all of Getty Images employer match money is automatically yours – with no waiting period!
Learning & growth
We value continuous learning and development to help everyone develop their skills. Enjoy mentorship, curated training & more.
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Who We Are:
Getty Images is a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace. Through Getty Images, iStock, and Unsplash, we offer a full range of content solutions to meet the needs of any customer—no matter their size—around the globe.
Getty Images encompasses the largest and best path to market for visual creators through their premier brands including its core, Getty Images; iStock, a value offering of creative stills and videos providing a significant volume of exclusive content to small and medium-sized businesses; and Unsplash, a free offering of creative stills servicing the fast-growing and broad-based creator economy.
Help us move the world with images! Bringing award-winning imagery to everyone, Getty Images has customers in almost every country in the world, with websites in 23 languages, bringing the world’s best content to media outlets, advertising agencies and corporations, small businesses and increasingly, direct to consumers.
Getty Images works with over 516,000 contributors and image partners to provide comprehensive coverage of more than 160,000 news, sport, and entertainment events around the globe. With over 520 million assets, of which over 320 million are digitized, encompassing the latest global news, sports, celebrity, music and fashion coverage; exclusive conceptual creative images; and the world’s largest commercial archive. New content is added daily, with 8-10 million new assets added each quarter.
Getty Images offers the most exclusive and unique creative and editorial visual content globally. The breadth and quality of our content allow our customers and partners to tell their stories with greater creativity and accuracy, thereby eliciting more emotion and enabling more action. Getty Images moves the world —whether the goal is commercial or philanthropic, revenue-generating or society-changing, market-disrupting or headline-driving. Getty Images offers the highest quality and most diverse visual content, based on industry-leadingexpertise and innovation.
Leadership Principles
As a company, we're committed to living these Principles every day. Here's how we support our mission to be the best place to work globally.
We are trustworthy, transparent, and honest
We love character, authenticity, and integrity.
We always raise the bar
Excellence is our norm; we get better through endeavor, curiosity, and speed.
We collectively bring solutions
We love debate but collaborating to solve problems for ourselves and our customers is everyone’s responsibility.
We care, are kind, courteous, and respectful
We will not tolerate rudeness.
We reject biased behavior and discrimination
We seek to understand biases in all forms. We call out biases and discrimination when observed and take action where responsible.
We are inclusive of different voices, perspectives, and experiences
Diversity and inclusion are never done, but we are passionate in their pursuit.
We are one Getty Images with no silos
We share goals and accountability; we and actively seek information and expertise; we make time for our peers.
We deliver on our commitments, and commercial goals
With one voice and shared accountability.
We put the customer at the heart of everything we do
We listen to, anticipate, and exceed customer needs, adapting as they evolve.
We celebrate our inclusive work environment and welcome members of all backgrounds and perspectives. Women, gender-nonbinary, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Getty Images is committed to providing Reasonable Accommodations and will work with you to meet your needs. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance to search for a job opening or submitting an online application, please email RecruitingAccommodations@gettyimages.com.
Visit Getty Images atwww.gettyimages.com to learn more about how the company is advancing the unique role of still and moving imagery in communication and business, and enabling creative ideas to come to life.
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Getty Images is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. Getty Images believes that diversity is critical to our success in moving the world with images and is committed to creating an inclusive, mutually respectful environment that celebrates diversity. We seek to hire on the basis of merit, competence, performance, and business needs.
