Talent Acquisition Specialist

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About Picus

Picus Security, the leading security validation company, gives organizations a clear picture of their cyber risk based on business context. Picus transforms security practices by correlating, prioritizing, and validating exposures across siloed findings so teams can focus on critical gaps and high-impact fixes. With Picus, security teams can quickly take action with one-click mitigations to stop more threats with less effort.

The Picus Security Validation Platform easily reaches across on-prem environments, hybrid clouds and endpoints coupled with Numi AI to provide exposure validation. 

The pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation, Picus delivers award-winning threat-centric technology that allows teams to pinpoint fixes worth pursuing, offering a 95% recommendation in Gartner Peer Review.

About The Role

If you’re a results-driven person with an entrepreneurial mindset, who takes the initiative and thrives in a dynamic environment, then this is a great opportunity to play a pivotal role in a fast-growing cyber security company. 

Picus is looking for an incredible Talent Acquisition Specialist based in Türkiye to partner with our Tech Leaders to find the best technical talent in the business and support our Manager, Talent Acquisition with global hiring as required. You will assume full ownership of the hiring process to deliver a seamless and exceptional end-to-end recruitment experience.

This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced Talent Acquisition professional to shape the future of our business. Reporting to the Global Manager,Talent Acquisition, you will play a vital role in refining strategies, enhancing processes, and contributing to the growth and success of our dynamic team.

What You'll Do

• Lead and Oversee Full-Cycle Recruitment: Drive and manage all stages of the recruitment process, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness from sourcing to onboarding.
• Collaborate with Hiring Managers: Partner closely with hiring managers to understand role requirements and craft targeted recruitment strategies that align with business objectives.
• Leverage Sourcing and Marketing Expertise: Utilize innovative sourcing techniques and employer branding strategies to attract and engage top talent.
• Maintain a Robust Talent Pipeline: Develop and nurture a diverse pipeline of qualified candidates to meet both immediate and future hiring needs.
• Screen and Interview Candidates: Manage the evaluation process, including resume screening, initial assessments, and interviews, to identify top candidates efficiently.
• Optimize the Candidate Experience: Design and implement seamless, end-to-end hiring processes that create a positive and professional experience for all candidates.
• Promote Employer Brand: Enhance employer visibility by showcasing Picus’s value proposition across career sites, social media platforms, and other recruitment channels, targeting diverse talent at all levels.
• Develop Effective Job Descriptions: Partner with the People & Culture Team and hiring managers to craft clear, engaging, and inclusive job descriptions and postings.
• Champion Picus’s Mission and Culture: Communicate the organization’s mission, vision, and values to inspire and attract candidates who align with the company’s culture.
• Stay Ahead of Talent Trends: Conduct ongoing research into talent acquisition trends and best practices to continually improve recruitment strategies and processes.
• Represent the Organization: Act as a brand ambassador at job fairs, networking events, and other recruiting opportunities to expand the company’s reach and attract top talent and support our diversity objectives

What You Have

• Strong Talent Acquisition Experience: Proven track record in talent acquisition, ideally within an in-house recruitment team environment.
• Technical Recruitment Expertise: Demonstrated success in technical recruitment, particularly within the IT sector within a start up/scale up environment.
• Bilingual Communication Skills: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in both Turkish and English.
• Emotional Intelligence and Cultural Alignment: High emotional intelligence and the ability to foster strong relationships, aligned with a culture-driven approach to success.
• Career Development Advocacy: Genuine passion for supporting individuals in growing their careers and achieving their potential.
• Results-Oriented and Agile: Strong focus, ability to prioritize effectively, and capacity to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining high-quality outcomes.
• Technology Proficiency: Hands-on experience with Applicant Tracking Systems and LinkedIn , leveraging these tools to drive hiring success.
• Continuous Learning Mindset: A growth-oriented attitude and commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.

Working at Picus

Fascinating work - a chance to shape and lead an exciting, fast-growing cyber security segment. Security Validation is a concept that helps organizations evaluate their security posture in a continuous, automated, and repeatable way. This approach allows for the identification of imminent threats, provides recommended actions, and produces valuable metrics about cyber-risk levels.

Unlimited opportunity! We are growing. At Picus, you'll be provided with as much responsibility as you can handle - new career development opportunities constantly arise given our rate of growth.

Global exposure - Get a lot of experience working not only in a fast-growing startup but also interact with customers all around the world.

Be part of a global remote team who is taking on Exposure Validation and a growing market segment.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, national origin, religious belief, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by International law. Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete reference and identity checks in line with local labor laws and as per the Company’s employment policy.