Job Title: Global Talent Partner – Digital, Tech & Engineering
Location: India, with Global Coverage. Must be flexible to cover US/Europe Timezones
Reports To: Senior Talent Manager
About Pearson:
Learning is no longer just a stage of life but a lifelong journey. In an era where AI is moving at breathtaking pace and where there is huge demand for new talent, with new skills, the world needs learning more than ever before.
Whether it’s upskilling in the workplace, developing a team, getting ahead in school, making the grade at university, or learning a new language, millions of people around the world trust Pearson products and services to help them realise the life they imagine through learning.
We hold learners, educators, and enterprises at the heart of our thinking. Our five interconnected business divisions work together to meet people’s evolving learning needs. We’re proud to be a trusted partner in the moments that matter throughout their lives.
About the role
As a Talent Partner sitting within our Tech division of our Global Talent Team, you will be responsible for the full end to end talent selection process for technology roles in multiple locations including the US, UK & Europe. In your everyday work you will contribute towards achieving one of our core multiyear goals to become a truly talent and skills-based organisation. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our company through your abilities to find and match great people to great roles both internally and externally. As part of this you will be focused on creating the best possible candidate and manager experience, driving innovative hiring strategies to meet specific needs. You’ll embrace new technologies, ideas and ways of thinking to drive new solutions to business problems and be a brand ambassador for the areas you support. You will love to influence through data and experience, operate at pace while always striving to deliver quality results for the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with Hiring Managers and HR teams across your specific area to identify hiring needs and skills gaps as well as their business needs and strategy. Leveraging all the tools in your tool kit to find the best and fastest solution to solve the need - (Tool Kit: Including but not limited to Direct sourcing via LI and search databases, advertising marketing and campaign creation, social sourcing and activation, Application management, Creative referral campaigns, Pipeline building and management and Active Networking)
- Own and control the full end to end process to drive towards a successful hire at pace.
- Operate as a strategic thought partner for the business, building strong relationships with your hiring teams and leverage your experience and influence to drive a best-in-class recruitment and candidate experience.
- Operate with a growth mindset challenging your own and others thinking to consistently evolve talent practises to achieve greater results.
- Monitor and drive your own performance against pre-set criteria, always striving for excellence. Operate as one with your peers and the broader HR teams, prioritising and being agile providing support one another as needed.
- Leverage data to influence business thinking and support on talent decisions.
- Be a champion and ambassador for diversity and unbiased hiring as a lever for business growth.
- Stay relevant and up to date with industry trends, demographic shifts, new technologies, platforms, or channels for us to explore.
About you
- Extensive experience in recruiting across various technology roles, with a passion for sourcing and uncovering top-tier engineers, developers, and technical wizards?
- Tech-savvy mindset: You’re comfortable with Boolean searches, AI tools, and sourcing platforms like LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Stack Overflow, and more.
- Proven experience recruiting in the US, UK & Europe with the flexibility to support US time zones.
- Confident in working with senior stakeholders and presenting regular business updates.
- Strong communication skills: Whether it’s crafting compelling outreach messages, or building rapport with candidates or hiring managers, you know how to engage.
- Operates as a strategic talent partner across all positions within your remit.
- Experienced in leveraging market insight and data to support key hiring or talent decisions/movements.
- Knows what great recruitment looks like and can demonstrate successful execution of the end-to-end proactive talent attraction/acquisition services and strategies.
- A desire to delight the customer – whether that be a candidate or a manager.
- Being positive, collaborative, agile and adaptable is part of your DNA.
- Has fun with new technologies and understands how to use them to automate tasks when needed.
- Focused on being the best Talent Partner possible with the core objective of helping the business achieve its goals to drive growth.
- Are performance driven – challenging yourself and others to achieve.
