Recruiting Lead

About the company:

Softermii (https://www.softermii.com/) is an outsourcing/outstaffing company with more than 11 years of experience in web and mobile application development with a team of more than 120 specialists from 6 countries.

We have withstood multiple challenges, such as COVID-19 pandemic and war aggression against Ukraine, we have secured sustainable development processes, saved all our projects and jobs. Even more – we’re constantly growing.     

Every day, we add a new project to our portfolio in the following areas of expertise:

• Healthcare
• Real estate
• Livestream E-commerce
• Fintech (Wealth Tech, Capital Trading)
• Real Time Communications (RTC)

 

In addition, we develop 2 of our own solutions that help our customers get faster applications for video or audio calls (https://www.softermii.com/solutions/vidrtc) or an application for real estate with 3D visualization

(https://www.softermii.com/solutions/apartmii)

 

Company mission:

Softermii: Succeed Without (L) imitations

We will turn any idea into a valuable product.

 

Our plans as a company:

We want to move from a regular outsourcing business to an ecosystem of outsourcing, education and product development companies.

Over the years, we have arrived at a highly personalized working model with transparent workflows. This model allows us to create software products that meet our clients’ goals with precision.

Softermii is currently looking for a Recruiting Lead to complement our team and expand our expertise in talent acquisition. We are actively growing, working on exciting international projects, and seeking a leader who can effectively build recruitment processes, develop the team, and ensure high-quality talent acquisition.

 

Type of cooperation: Full-time. 

 

📋Your responsibilities will be:

*Strategic & Operational Leadership:

- Build and execute the recruiting strategy based on company and recruitment OKRs.

Lead the Recruiting Office with a focus on performance, process efficiency, and continuous improvement.

- Develop and implement internal recruitment policies, processes, documentation, and quality standards.

- Drive the achievement of KPIs: time-to-hire, cost -per- hire, offer acceptance rate, first 90-day success rate, etc.

- Analyze recruitment analytics and provide strategic insights and adjustments.

Team Management & Development:

- Lead, mentor, and coach recruiters and researchers.

- Conduct daily team syncs, regular feedback sessions, and monthly retrospectives.

- Oversee onboarding, development planning, probation reviews, and performance tracking of team members.

- Approve vacations, sick leaves, and manage escalations and retention efforts within the Recruiting Office.

- Identify training needs and ensure continuous learning through courses, meetups, certifications, etc.

Process Ownership:

- Participate in vacancy kick-off calls with clients and delivery teams.

- Manage full-cycle recruitment for priority roles.

- Prioritize and assign vacancies to team members based on workload and experience.

- Ensure proper use of recruitment tools to maximize pipeline efficiency.

- Standardize workflows, interview scorecards, and reporting templates.

- Regularly review hiring performance and adapt recruitment strategy accordingly.

- Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

- Align hiring timelines with delivery capacity forecasts and sales input.

- Represent the recruitment team during client syncs where hiring performance is discussed.

- Provide weekly and monthly reports

 

👯You can be part of the following team: 3 researchers, 4 recruiters, Head of Recruiting and HR Departmen.

 

🕹Tools we use: Jira, Confluence, Git, Figma

 

🗞Our requirements to you:

 

Experience & Expertise:

- 6+ years of experience in IT recruitment, including at least 2+ years in a Team Lead role.

- Experience working in IT outsourcing or outstaffing companies.

- Familiarity with ATS, recruitment analytics, and automation tools.

- Experience conducting performance reviews or retro sessions.

- Proven experience in building recruitment strategies and managing recruiting KPIs.

- Strong stakeholder communication skills (Delivery, Sales, Clients).

- Hands-on experience in sourcing, interviewing, and decision-making.

- Leadership mindset with experience in team mentoring, onboarding, and retention.

- English: Upper-Intermediate or higher.

Desired Technical Skills:

- ATS proficiency (Lever, Greenhouse, Recruitee, Zoho Recruit, etc.), including administration, analytics, and process automation.

- Job description creation and optimization, with a focus on value proposition and selling points.

- Recruitment funnel management & optimization, analytics at each stage (CVs → interviews → offers → hires).

- Data-driven recruitment: metrics (time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, source-of-hire, quality-of-hire), setting OKRs/KPIs for the team.

- Advanced sourcing techniques (Boolean Search, GitHub, StackOverflow, Telegram, Discord) and sourcing tools (AmazingHiring, Lusha, CleverStaff).

- Offer management and counteroffer handling.

- HR Tech & AI tools integration into recruitment processes.

- Proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter/Sales Navigator for targeted sourcing and outreach.

- Basic understanding of legal and contractual aspects (B2B, contractor agreements, GDPR, NDA).

- Smooth candidate handoff to onboarding and evaluation of onboarding effectiveness.

Soft Skills:

- Team workload planning and prioritization.

- Balancing operational work with strategic initiatives and team development.

- Mentorship: competency assessment, regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and individual development roadmaps.

- Conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, and creating a psychologically safe work environment.

- Presentation and stakeholder communication skills: reporting to HRD, COO, Delivery Leads, or CEO, and participating in hiring strategy discussions.

 

👨‍💻Who will you have the opportunity to meet during the hiring process (stages):

Call-acquaintance, HR-interview, Test Task, Final Interview with Head of Recruiting and HR Department and COO.

What we can offer you:

1. We have stable and highly-functioning processes – everyone has their own role and clear responsibilities, so decisions are made quickly and without unnecessary approvals. 
2. You will have enough independence to make decisions that can affect not only the project but also the work of the company.
3. We are a team of like-minded experts who create interesting products during working hours, and enjoy spending free time together.
4. Do you like to learn something new in your profession, or do you want to improve your English? We will be happy to pay 50% of the cost of courses/conferences/speaking clubs.
5. Do you want an individual development plan? We will form one especially for you + you can count on mentoring from our seniors and leaders.
6. Do you have a friend who is currently looking for new job opportunities? Recommend them to us and get a bonus.
7. Are you thinking about taking out insurance? This is also what we can offer you.
8. And what if you want to relax? Then we have 21 working days off. We also have 11 paid days off for Public Holidays.
9. What if you're feeling bad? You can take 5 sick leaves a year.
10. Do you want to volunteer? We will add you to a chat, where we can get a bulletproof vest, buy a pickup truck or send children's drawings to the front.
11. And we have the most empathetic HRs (who also volunteers!). So we are ready to support your well-being in various ways.

 

A little more information that you may find useful:

• our adaptation period lasts 3 months, this period of time is enough for us to understand each other better;
• there is a performance review after each year of our collaboration where we use a skills map to track your growth;
• we really have no boundaries in the truest sense of the word – we have a flexible working day.

We are looking for like-minded professionals who believe in making the world a better place by building technology that’s meant to last and scale.

Join Softermii and help us take software to the next level of awesome.

Of course, we have a referral bonus system. So if you have a friend who likes our job opening, you can give us their telegram contact, and we in turn will thank you with a bonus if we start working with them!