Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

As a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at Spare you'll be instrumental in finding the best talent in the world and showing them the awesome things they can accomplish at Spare. To help you do that, our Talent team is committed to using the most cutting edge modern TA tools alongside with a humanistic, data-driven approach to Talent and recruitment.

This role follows a hybrid schedule. We require team members to be in the office on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with the option to work remotely on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Our office is located in downtown Vancouver, and we believe this balance fosters strong collaboration while supporting flexibility.

About this role✨

• You'll work directly with hiring managers and own the end to end talent process for open roles, including talent brand, sourcing, interviewing, and offers.

• You'll have a high degree of autonomy in how you structure your recruitment practice and day-to-day, while retaining a clear understanding of long term objectives and your role in the team's success.

• You will advise hiring managers and senior leadership on best practices and act as an internal champion of the Talent function, with assistance from your manager, the TA Lead.

• You will get the chance to work extensively on talent projects and process, in close collaboration with your hiring partners and the People Ops team, in order to ensure high talent density and robust data/reporting.

• You'll receive clear big-picture goals and actionable feedback and work in a team where your opinions and expertise are valued.

About You ✨

Successful candidates will have...

• 5+ years total in Talent Acquisition, with 2+ years working in-house in the tech industry.

• Experience working with a high requisition load and urgent hiring needs, and being measured against KPIs like time-to-hire and hires per quarter.

• Experience hiring for Software Engineering, Product, Design, Customer Success, Sales/GTM, Marketing, Executive, People + Talent, and Finance roles.

• Worked in a startup or scale-up SaaS environment and be comfortable with rapid pace, high ambiguity, and quick pivots.

• Capable of dealing with high volume of both inbound roles and proactive outbound sourcing.

• Able to work independently with hiring managers and advise on best modern TA practices, can act as a thought partner in hiring.

• Understands Talent Operations and is able to effectively use reporting and data to iterate on their recruitment practice.

• Experience with a modern ATS system like Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, etc.

Nice to have:

• Has worked in VC or PE-backed companies at the Series B-D stage, bonus if they were founder-led.

• Extensive experience with Ashby ATS

• Experience with Talent Brand or Talent Marketing

Don’t meet every single requirement?
Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification in the job posting.

At Spare, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment so we strongly encourage you to apply even if you don't believe you meet every single qualification outlined. We also do our best to respond to all applications we receive.

About the Talent Team:

• We're a small but mighty team committed to finding the best talent and bringing them into Spare's awesome mission.

• We're an agile team focused on individual agency, holistic team goals/KPIs, and enablement instead of useless metrics and micromanagement.

• We work closely with almost every aspect of the business here at Spare.

• We're committed to giving you the best and most modern tools available to do your job.

• There is a clearly defined path for you to be promoted and grow your career upwards from this role in either the people management or expert IC career tracks, along with market-linked compensation designed to reward you for your hard work.

About Spare

Spare's mission is empowering everyone to unlock the potential of mobility.

Spare is the future of shared transportation. We’re revolutionizing how the busy mom from Dallas, the retired teacher from Oslo or the aspiring entrepreneur from Tokyo experiences transportation, by partnering with transportation providers around the world to enable worry-free, efficient, flexible, and automated on-demand solutions.

From the daily commute to non-emergency hospital visits, last-minute lunches, and leisurely trips to the museum, our technology makes people’s lives easier and transit more equitable both for those with specialized mobility needs and those without.

With Spare’s Platform, which includes a feature-rich admin web-panel, as well as rider and driver apps, transportation providers can break free from para and microtransit silos and provide holistic demand-responsive services that give each rider exactly what they need. We also help cities easily optimize their transit network so that the entire transportation ecosystem works better together.

At Spare, nothing is impossible. We think safe, affordable, scalable and eventually autonomous transportation is the right way forward. Join us for the ride!

Guiding Principles

At Spare, we don't have a strict set of values, but rather a set of Guiding Principles that represent the most successful people at Spare.

🗝️ Take Ownership
⛰️ Growth Mindset
🚨 Execute with Urgency
🚌 Drive Results
💩 No Assholes
🤩 Customer-Obsession

Culture at Spare

You can read more about our culture (and how we work) here