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Director, Talent Acquisition
Fox
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Description
The Director, Talent Acquisition will operate as a hands-on recruiter and oversee recruitment for our rapidly growing Games organization in San Francisco, San Jose and Los Angeles. Based in San Francisco, the Director will report to the COO FoxNext Games and Fox Corporate Talent Acquisition. The director will manage recruiters for the Games team in Los Angeles, San Jose, and San Francisco.
Our studios are dedicated to crafting AAA quality games for a global audience, across various platforms, including mobile, console, and PC. The San Francisco team is dedicated to mobile game experiences, while the San Jose studio is developing a unique shooter game within the Alien universe. If you are a seasoned Recruiting and HR professional passionate about working with creative people in a rapidly growing entrepreneurial environment, this is the role for you!
Responsibilities
• Full-cycle recruitment and management of a team of Games recruiters covering San Francisco, San Jose, and Los Angeles locations.
• Work and partner with Corporate Talent Acquisition, participating in Talent Acquisition staff meetings and training, ensuring Games processes are in alignment with corporate recruitment policies, practices, and procedures.
• Develop and direct recruitment strategy for functional roles in game development, engineering, user acquisition, data science, marketing and other functional areas in gaming and software development
• Leverage and manage relationships with external recruiting resources, e.g. staffing agencies, etc.
• In partnership with Fox HQ HR and Compensation, establish a functional job matrix unique to the gaming industry, encompassing Development, Operations and Publishing departments providing job context, levels, and industry comparables.
• Partner with FoxNext Games leadership for the recruitment needs for each Studio/Group as well as the hiring manager to develop new job descriptions as needed and modification/revision of existing job profiles due to promotions/upgrades/restructures.
• Partner with the Fox HQ HR team to manage offers, employment contract requests, relocation, immigration, and related functional HR matters.
Qualifications
• Bachelor degree in business administration or a related field; HR certification preferred.
• At least 7 years Recruitment experience with at least 3 years’ in a supervisory capacity.
• Subject matter expert with proven experience recruiting for experienced professionals in game development, engineering, user acquisition, data science, marketing and other functional areas in gaming and software development. Media/entertainment experience is a plus.
• Experience managing a team of in-house and remote recruiters.
• Strong knowledge of Recruiting practices, policies and California employment law.
• Proficiency using Word, Excel, Outlook, Visio, HRIS and applicant tracking systems (e.g. PeopleSoft, Workday, Taleo).
• Skilled at establishing and maintaining strong relationships with clients and HR peers, effective leadership skills and the ability to work independently.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to multi-task and operate in a fast paced environment with a sense of urgency and focus.
• Must possess a strong service and team-oriented approach.
• Ability to regularly travel to games studio locations.
Division Description
FoxNext is driving immersive, next generation entertainment experiences in the areas of virtual and augmented reality, mobile, console and pc games and location-based entertainment across Twentieth Century Fox Film and Fox Network Group. The division consists of FoxNext Games, FoxNext Destinations and FoxNext VR Studio. Fox has a successful track record identifying exceptional games and publishing partners across the mobile and console/PC space, such as Family Guy: Another Freakin’ Mobile Game, Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards, The Simpsons Tapped Out, Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff, Ice Age Adventures, Sugar Smash: Book of Life and Alien: Isolation. FoxNext VR Studio will oversee VR experiences, such as the already announced ALIEN and PLANET OF THE APES productions, and work to commercialize Fox’s overarching VR strategy. FoxNext Destinations will oversee the company’s location-based entertainment business including the development of the 20th Century Fox World theme park in Malaysia.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.