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Senior Recruiter(Remote) - 6+ Month Contract

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The Senior Recruiter will develop and execute recruiting strategies, build diverse talent pipelines, advise hiring leaders, and improve candidate and stakeholder experiences. Responsibilities include workforce planning, full-cycle recruiting, process and best-practice development, recruiting metrics, reporting, and partnership with HR leadership. The role requires corporate recruiting experience, familiarity with ATS platforms and OFCCP guidelines, knowledge of labor markets and hiring trends, and strong stakeholder partnership skills.
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Would you like to engage and hire top talent for a premier technology company?

Do you enjoy building diverse and inclusive teams?

Join the Akamai Talent Acquisition team

Our team is passionate about building an inclusive and engaged workforce forming the foundation of Akamai's culture. We're a team of innovative thinkers who are committed to making Akamai a great place to work. Our goal is to bring the very best experience to all colleagues around the globe.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Recruiter you will partner with leaders to establish and execute on creative recruiting strategies. Collaborating with the hiring community you'll become a trusted talent advisor providing guidance throughout the recruiting process. People are our most valuable asset and you will ensure that we hire the best!

As a Senior Recruiter, you will be responsible for:

  • Creating processes and best practices to ensure delivery of diverse talent pools
  • Partnering proactively with the hiring community to understand and plan for hiring needs
  • Influencing and continuously improving on the experience of internal stakeholders, candidates, and new hires
  • Providing regular reporting and metrics updates to hiring community and HR leadership teams

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Have 8 years of relevant experience including full life-cycle recruiting experience, ideally in a corporate environment
  • Demonstrate the ability to partner with business leaders to develop and execute on recruiting strategies
  • Possess knowledge of various recruiting tools such as search engines and social media
  • Have experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and knowledge of OFCCP guidelines
  • Be knowledgeable about the labor market and hiring trends, ideally in the technology sector
  • Be passionate about partnering and providing world class customer service to stakeholders across Akamai's business units

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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