Sr Talent Acquisition Specialist
Float
About Float
Float is on a mission to simplify finance for Canadian businesses, empowering them to eliminate complexity and unlock new opportunities. Through our innovative platform, Float enables businesses to streamline spending and optimize cash flow, so they can focus on what matters most: growth. As one of Canada’s fastest growing companies and top-rated startups in 2024 and 2023, Float is customer-obsessed, passionate, and entrepreneurial, with a team that includes leaders from Uber, Shopify, Top Hat, Ritual, Ada, and more.
At Float, everyone is an owner, bringing their unique perspective to our team and product. Your voice is important, and we take having a culture based on feedback seriously. We openly share our thoughts and differing opinions so we can continue to improve. We do our best to keep our decision-making decentralized so that all team members feel ownership in our success.
Our Product
Float is Canada’s first finance platform designed to empower businesses with fast, flexible, and accessible financial solutions. Our integrated suite of products—including corporate cards, bill pay, reimbursements, and financial services—rethinks how companies access capital, streamline spending, and manage growth. Backed by world-class investors like Tiger Global, Golden Ventures, and Susa Ventures, we’re disrupting the global B2B finance space—and we’re looking for bold innovators to help shape the future of business finance.
About the Talent Acquisition role
We’re looking for an outstanding full cycle Talent Acquisition professional to join Float. This is a super exciting and critical individual contributor role, recruiting across all functions and levels (entry level to director). We hire the best of the best and have an incredibly high talent bar which means we are actively sourcing top talent and prioritize quality and fit every time - sometimes that means that roles take a while to fill, but we are persistent and wait until we find exactly what we were looking for.
In this role, you’ll be responsible for the entire recruitment process from end to end:
- Partnering with Float hiring managers to understand their hiring needs - becoming a true and trusted partner in all things recruitment
- Creating candidate success profiles and workback plans - identifying those unique and critical candidate “must haves” at each stage of the interview process and ensuring we have a hire date to work backwards to.
- Writing top notch job descriptions - ones that are captivating and capture the true essence of the role
- Actively source the best talent (this is a key component of the role) - not just using the traditional methods, but ones that are creative and highly effective, packaging key information that gets our message across and gets strong candidate responses.
- Providing an exceptional candidate experience - screen, interview and reply to candidates in a thoughtful way and in a timely manner, ensuring that we get back to all candidates
- Interviewing and evaluating candidates - asking nuanced questions for each role and team, actively listening, and assessing for technical/functional skills and fit
- Managing the candidate pipeline and candidate experience - keep our TA systems up to date and keeping teams and candidates informed at all times
- Leading candidate debriefs - structured discussions with all interviewers to determine candidate fit based on the success profile and job description
- Offer management - work with the hiring managers and head of people to align on offer details and prepare for offer
- Reporting on our talent acquisition metrics - ensure your recruitment dashboards are up to date so that we can tweak our interview approach using a data informed approach