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Junior Technical Recruiter - Shanghai

Kong

Kong

People & HR, IT
Shanghai, China
Posted 6+ months ago
Are you ready to power the World's connections?
About the role:
In this role you will report directly to the Director of Talent and partner with our R&D leaders to scale our teams in APJ! You will be exposed to building and executing a worldwide expansion strategy. It will be your responsibility to generate a pipeline of candidates for our hard-to-fill roles across R&D. This role is a full cycle recruiting role and the expectation is to accelerate hiring across APJ. In this role, you will also work with all the hiring managers to run launch meetings for all new roles, setting and managing expectations on both ends, gather feedback from candidates and hiring managers and help coordinate the candidate experience.

What you'll be doing:

  • Consistently generate a healthy pipeline of high-quality candidates for our R&D teams (Kong Gateway, Mesh, KIC, Insomnia).
  • Partner with engineering leadership to understand hiring profiles, needs of the business and to drive candidates through the hiring process.
  • Partner with hiring managers and interview teams to understand their hiring needs and goals
  • Create and execute unique and effective sourcing strategies and techniques to find top-talent
  • Engage, screen, and schedule candidates for relevant openings and assist them through the recruitment process; provide a quality professional recruiting experience
  • Stay consistently engaged with active candidates through the entire recruiting process.
  • Be the market knowledge expert and provide insights to recruiting and hiring managers at the company
  • Work with the rest of the recruiting team to assist with driving initiatives and developing processes -- referral program, company happiness, retention, training, etc.
  • Become a brand ambassador and help with networking and recruiting events

What you'll bring:

  • A friendly and welcoming attitude in person and over the phone.
  • 4+ years experience in a sourcing and/or recruiting for technical engineering roles.
  • Experience sourcing in Technical Engineer, Support, Solutions Engineers, etc.
  • Knowledge of technical sourcing with an eagerness to learn and grow
  • Experience sourcing and researching through different social media channels
  • Self-motivation, strong time management and organizational skills
  • Proven ability to build networks, both internally and externally
About Kong:
Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). As the innovation leader of cloud API technologies, Kong is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become "API-first" and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally - from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises - unleash developer productivity, build securely and accelerate to market.
83% of web traffic today is API calls! APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another. Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud. Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!
For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter. We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
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