Job summary
Help us hire key talent for Red Hat's growth. The Red Hat People (HR) team is looking for a Talent Acquisition Advisor to join us in Raleigh, NC. In this role, you will be responsible for hiring through strategic planning, process redesign, collaboration, keen negotiation, and motivating communication. In partnership with peer HR consultants, you'll lead the implementation of recruitment activities for Red Hat's operating business and field-based teams. You will effectively translate data and objectives into actions, delivering against the overall business strategy and financial goals. As a Talent Acquisition Advisor, you will also work closely with the Talent Acquisition (TA) Delivery teams to ensure that they fill recruitment demand across multiple functions, businesses, and locations. By building and managing solid relationships with key hiring managers, you will help us lead processes in areas like developing detailed and well-defined position profiles, competitive market analysis, go-to-market strategy, interview design and planning, candidate experience, final candidate selection, and closing.
Primary job responsibilities

• Serve as an internal consultant and adviser to hiring managers from the opening of a requisition through to candidate onboarding
• Conduct a thorough needs analysis to deliver quality results with a sense of urgency
• Work closely with the fulfillment team to ensure that their sourcing and recruitment strategies are aligned with the needs of hiring managers
• Work with sourcers and recruiters to set aggressive, but realistic timelines for presenting deliverables and interested candidates to hiring managers
• Lead continuous productivity improvement to the recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding operations
• Expertly manage communication and cooperation among associates and teams to include conflict resolution, stress management, diversity awareness, teamwork, and political dynamics
• Lead status update meetings with customer stakeholders as required
• Develop robust workforce plans and distill them into TA plans for each new fiscal year; monitor and adjust these plans on a quarterly basis to match the business environment at Red Hat
• Successfully design interview and evaluation processes for all levels in a systematic and collaborative manner
• Become a subject matter expert in recruiting market developments, competitive trends, compensation, and other relevant areas; share knowledge with key stakeholders
• Enhance the process of qualification of skills, cultural assessment, and demonstrative evaluation techniques used to ensure the selection and hiring of the best talent for all openings
• Create optimal candidate experience

Required skills

• 5+ years of progressive consulting or project management experience working for top-tier organizations
• Solid sales recruiting experience in a technology company
• Bachelor's degree
• Solid business insight and broad understanding of current business trends and strategies
• Understanding of HR metrics
• Advanced consulting skills with demonstrated ability to successfully persuade senior stakeholders
• Ability to think strategically and objectively while considering global implications
• Willingness to engage at all levels of an organization; ability to handle ambiguity, structure problems, and deliver results
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities that require attention to detail and nuanced communication
• Desire to win by using expert negotiation skills, employing value selling strategies, and anticipating objections, resulting in successful candidate offers
• Solid understanding of business fundamentals, financial goals, and the competitive landscape

About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
• Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
• Retirement 401(k) with employer match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
• Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
• Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!

Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.
Red Hat is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, uniformed services, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
Red Hat does not seek or accept unsolicited resumes or CVs from recruitment agencies. We are not responsible for, and will not pay, any fees, commissions, or any other payment related to unsolicited resumes or CVs except as required in a written contract between Red Hat and the recruitment agency or party requesting payment of a fee.