Talent Acquisition Specialist

Contract Talent Acquisition Specialist / Recruiter – Canada

Company: MediaMint Canada

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Employment Type: Contract

Work Mode: Hybrid

Experience: 2–4 Years

Budget: CAD 50K per annum

Hiring Requirement: Additional Headcount (HC)

Industry: Advertising Technology (AdTech)

Role Overview

MediaMint is looking for an aggressive, proactive and result-oriented Contract Recruiter to support its Canada hiring requirements, primarily across Toronto.

The ideal candidate will have 2–4 years of hands-on recruitment experience, strong sourcing and headhunting capabilities, excellent stakeholder management skills, and the ability to manage end-to-end recruitment activities.

This role requires someone who can take ownership of open positions, build strong talent pipelines, drive interview coordination, and go above and beyond to ensure hiring targets and planned joiner headcounts are achieved.

Key Responsibilities

1. Sourcing & Headhunting

• Independently source candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, job portals, referrals and other recruitment channels.
• Proactively identify, approach and engage passive candidates through targeted headhunting.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines for current and upcoming hiring requirements.
• Use creative sourcing strategies to identify niche and hard-to-find AdTech talent.
• Conduct initial candidate screening and assess suitability against job requirements.
• Ensure a consistent pipeline of qualified and interested candidates.

2. Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with hiring managers, business leaders and internal recruitment stakeholders.
• Understand hiring requirements, role expectations, urgency and business priorities.
• Provide regular updates on recruitment progress, pipeline health and potential challenges.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and proactively address hiring bottlenecks.
• Demonstrate strong ownership and accountability for assigned positions.

3. Interview Coordination & Candidate Management

• Coordinate interview schedules across candidates, interview panels and hiring managers.
• Ensure timely interview confirmations, feedback collection and follow-ups.
• Maintain consistent communication with candidates throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
• Manage candidate engagement and ensure a positive candidate experience.
• Proactively follow up with selected candidates to minimize offer dropouts and joining delays.

4. Offer Management & Joiner Headcount Delivery

• Support offer discussions, negotiations and closure activities in coordination with the relevant stakeholders.
• Track offer acceptance, notice periods, expected joining dates and joining commitments.
• Maintain regular engagement with candidates during their notice periods.
• Proactively identify joining risks and develop mitigation plans.
• Take ownership of ensuring committed joiner headcount is achieved within agreed timelines.
• Go above and beyond to resolve challenges impacting candidate conversion and joining.

5. Recruitment Reporting & Execution

• Maintain accurate recruitment trackers and ATS updates.
• Monitor sourcing numbers, screening conversions, interview pipelines, offers and joiners.
• Share periodic hiring reports and recruitment dashboards.
• Identify process gaps and recommend improvements to improve hiring turnaround time.

Required Competencies

1. Aggressive Sourcing & Headhunting: Strong ability to identify, approach and convert active and passive talent.
2. Stakeholder Management: Ability to influence, communicate and collaborate with hiring managers and business stakeholders.
3. Execution Excellence: Strong sense of urgency and ability to deliver against tight hiring timelines.
4. Ownership & Accountability: Takes complete responsibility for assigned hiring requirements and committed joiner headcount.
5. Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication, candidate engagement and negotiation skills.
6. Problem-Solving: Ability to overcome sourcing challenges, interview delays, candidate dropouts and joining risks.
7. Candidate Experience: Ability to build relationships and maintain candidate engagement throughout the hiring lifecycle.
8. Adaptability: Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic and target-driven recruitment environment.

Mandatory Requirements

• 2–4 years of hands-on recruitment / talent acquisition experience.
• Experience in end-to-end recruitment, sourcing and headhunting.
• Strong LinkedIn sourcing and Boolean search capabilities.
• Excellent stakeholder management and interview coordination skills.
• Strong communication, follow-up and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
• Experience supporting Canadian or North American hiring is highly preferred.
• Exposure to AdTech, MarTech, Digital Media, Advertising or Technology recruitment is an added advantage.

Ideal Candidate Profile

We are looking for someone who:

• Is aggressive, driven and highly proactive in recruitment execution.
• Does not wait for follow-ups or instructions to move hiring forward.
• Can independently manage multiple open positions.
• Has a strong sense of urgency and thrives on hiring targets.
• Is solution-oriented and willing to go the extra mile to close positions.
• Understands that recruitment success is measured not just by offers released but by actual joiners delivered.
• Demonstrates strong ownership of additional headcount requirements and business-critical hiring.

Success Measure: The recruiter's primary objective is to build strong talent pipelines, accelerate recruitment closures and ensure committed joiner headcount is delivered within agreed timelines.