Position Summary
The Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist plays a key role in attracting, engaging, and hiring top talent across Yugo’s U.S. portfolio. Supporting both our operational portfolio of student housing communities and our corporate functions, this is a high-impact role for a recruiter who thrives on pace, challenge and delivering results. This position will manage recruitment across multiple properties and business functions simultaneously, partnering with leaders to fill a broad spectrum of roles. Success in this role will be measured by the ability to reduce vacancy levels, shorten time-to-hire, improve quality of hire and successfully fill difficult-to-recruit positions. We're looking for a recruiter with an agency mindset who enjoys building talent pipelines, proactively engaging passive candidates and taking ownership for delivering against ambitious hiring goals.
This role partners closely with hiring managers, operations, and the People & Culture team to deliver a high-quality candidate and manager experience while ensuring alignment with Yugo’s culture and values.
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Key Responsibilities
Recruitment Delivery & Talent Acquisition
· Own the full recruitment lifecycle across a portfolio of property-based and corporate vacancies throughout the United States.
· Manage multiple concurrent requisitions while maintaining exceptional service levels for hiring managers and candidates.
· Partner with hiring managers to understand business requirements, define hiring priorities and develop effective recruitment strategies.
· Drive the successful delivery of hard-to-fill, specialist and business-critical vacancies through proactive sourcing and market mapping techniques.
· Build and maintain strong talent pipelines to reduce future hiring lead times and support workforce planning initiatives.
· Use a variety of sourcing approaches and channels.
· Actively manage recruitment activity to reduce average time-to-fill across all open vacancies and minimise workforce gaps within the business.
Stakeholder Management
· Influence hiring managers to drive efficient recruitment processes, timely interview feedback and effective decision-making.
Performance & Commercial Focus
· Use recruitment data and analytics to identify bottlenecks and continuously improve hiring performance.
· Contribute directly to business performance by ensuring vacancies are filled quickly and effectively, reducing operational disruption and agency spend.
Candidate Experience & Employer Brand
· Deliver an exceptional candidate experience that reflects Yugo's values and employer brand.
What Success Looks Like
Within the first 12 months, the successful candidate will:
· Reduce overall time-to-hire across the U.S. business.
· Successfully fill challenging operational and corporate vacancies.
· Establish proactive talent pipelines for recurring and critical roles.
· Improve hiring manager satisfaction through responsive, high-quality recruitment support.
· Contribute to eliminating external agency reliance and reducing recruitment costs.
· Deliver measurable improvements in vacancy management and recruitment performance.
What else?
Performance Incentive: In addition to base salary, this role participates in a performance-based incentive programme designed to reward achievement against key recruitment outcomes, including successful delivery of hard-to-fill positions, reduction in vacancy levels and improvements in time-to-hire across the U.S. business.
This job description serves as a guideline, this list of responsibilities is not intended to be exhaustive and other requests commensurate with the role may be made of you from time-to-time.
Requirements
· Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience).
· Minimum of 8-10 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, preferably in hospitality, real estate, or property management and ideally within a recruitment agency or fast-paced in-house talent acquisition environment.
· Proven track record of successfully managing high-volume recruitment activity across multiple locations and business functions.
· Demonstrated success filling difficult-to-fill, specialist or niche positions through direct sourcing strategies
· Strong sourcing, networking and candidate engagement skills..
· Strong communication, relationship-building, and organizational skills.
· Experience with using Workable or similar ATS.
· Understanding of EEO, OFCCP, and other compliance requirements in the U.S.
Desirable:
· Experience recruiting in student housing, hospitality, or multifamily property management.
· Familiarity with behavioral interviewing techniques and candidate assessment tools.
· SHRM-CP, PHR, or equivalent certification.
Benefits
As part of the Yugo team, you are eligible for a competitive salary, bonus eligibility, comprehensive benefits and more! Here’s a snapshot of what we offer;
- Competitive salary ($65000 - $80000 + commission)
- Generous benefits package! Including health, dental and vision
- 401k + 4% employer matching
- Three weeks of PTO
- Paid Wellness Time
- 11 paid Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- 1 Paid Volunteer Day
- 1 Paid YuDay
- Company paid STD, LTD and Life insurance
At Yugo, we believe in creating a culture where everyone belongs and feels empowered to do their best work. If you're looking to make an impact in a people-first environment, apply today!
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.