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Talent Scientist - Graduate Lead

Canonical
Remote
Full Time
Posted November 24, 2025
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Job Description

This role involves leading graduate talent acquisition strategies within a remote-first tech company, focusing on building partnerships with academic institutions, utilizing data-driven insights to optimize hiring processes, and applying scientific methods to assess and select top junior talent globally.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build effective partnerships with academic institutions to promote graduate opportunities
  • Create compelling propositions to attract top graduate talent
  • Drive talent analytics to provide real-time insights and improve hiring processes
  • Conduct behavioral and competency-based interviews to assess motivations and behaviors
  • Develop and maintain relationships with global stakeholders to ensure hiring objectives are met
  • Analyze data and build dashboards to monitor hiring outcomes and performance metrics
  • Review and optimize hiring processes and tools for continuous improvement
  • Collaborate with external platforms and third parties to maximize recruitment effectiveness
  • Promote diversity and inclusion by removing unconscious bias from hiring practices
  • Advise on and implement scientific approaches to talent selection and assessment

Requirements

  • An exceptional academic background from both high school and university, with a Bachelors or Masters degree in a Psychology or People based subject.
  • Experience of hiring talent in the technology industry, with an informed viewpoint on graduate hiring.
  • A highly data driven mindset with the ability to create measurable outcomes, using SQL.
  • Passionate about how an organisation selects talent using scientific approaches with a viewpoint on how to predict and measure hiring outcomes.
  • Exposure to psychometric assessments, including interpretation (preferable).
  • Experience of conducting behavioural, competency based interviews with the ability to train stakeholders and advise on how to get the best out of an interview.
  • Experience with tools such as Greenhouse, LinkedIn, Superset, Thomas International DISC assessments (advantageous).
  • A high level of personal organisation and self drive to work remotely and be effective.
  • Willingness to travel to company events 2-4 times a year, for up to two weeks each.

Benefits & Perks

Compensation is shaped by geographical location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews and more frequent reviews for graduates and associates
Performance-driven annual bonus
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Recognition rewards
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Priority Pass, including lounge access, for company travel

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