Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Job Description As a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at Fanatics Commerce, you will play a critical role in advancing our ability to hire top talent across functions and geographies. You’ll operate with autonomy to manage the full administrative lifecycle of recruiting while also serving as a trusted partner to recruiters, hiring managers, and executives.

This role requires a balance of high-touch coordination, strategic process ownership, and executive-level communication skills. It’s a unique opportunity to operate in a fast-paced, global environment where precision, professionalism, and a world-class candidate experience are essential.

While recruiting technology and automation support this role, success depends on human judgment, discretion, relationship management, and the ability to navigate ambiguity, particularly in senior-level, confidential, and time-sensitive hiring scenarios. This role requires real-time decision-making and exception handling that cannot be fully automated.

Key Responsibilities

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• Full-Cycle Coordination Ownership: Manage all operational aspects of the recruiting process for primarily Director-level and above hiring, including job description creation, complex interview scheduling (domestic and international), candidate communication, travel coordination, and offer processing.

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• Executive Hiring Support: Confidently manage senior and executive-level hiring processes, serving as a trusted point of contact for candidates, recruiters, and executives. Navigate sensitive conversations, shifting priorities, and confidential information with discretion, professionalism, and a high-touch, human-centered candidate experience.

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• Reporting & Analytics: Build and maintain Executive Hiring dashboards, reports, and trackers using ATS data (e.g., Greenhouse), Excel/Sheets, and other analytics tools. Analyze and interpret data to surface risks, trends, and actionable recommendations, partnering with recruiters and TA leadership to inform decisions, not simply report metrics.

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• Presentation Development: Partner with TA leaders to create polished reports and presentations for executive reviews, quarterly business updates, and strategic workforce planning sessions, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and executive-ready storytelling.

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• Data Integrity & Compliance: Ensure accuracy of all candidate data in the ATS and related systems, upholding process compliance, supporting audit readiness, and applying judgment when handling sensitive or non-standard data scenarios.

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• Process Autonomy & Judgment: Exercise sound judgment in complex, ambiguous, and time-sensitive recruiting situations. Anticipate and resolve scheduling conflicts, competing executive priorities, last-minute changes, and candidate sensitivities with minimal oversight.

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• Exception & Escalation Management: Proactively manage non-standard scenarios that fall outside defined workflows, including confidential searches, urgent executive needs, cross-border complexities, and high-risk scheduling or offer situations.

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• Global Recruiting Support: Coordinate across functions and geographies to ensure alignment, delivering consistency and excellence across diverse hiring initiatives while adapting to cultural nuances and regional expectations.

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• Continuous Improvement & Influence: Identify opportunities to optimize coordination processes, enhance reporting tools, and elevate stakeholder engagement. Influence hiring stakeholders to follow best practices, timelines, and process expectations while maintaining strong, trust-based relationships.

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• Project, Event & Special Initiative Support: Partner with the Talent Acquisition team on executive interview events, hiring initiatives, and special projects that support strategic business priorities.

Qualifications

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• 4+ years of recruiting coordination, talent acquisition support, or specialist-level experience, ideally within a high-growth, global organization.

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• Demonstrated ability to operate independently and apply sound judgment in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

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• Experience supporting executive-level hiring processes with discretion, professionalism, and trust.

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• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with proven ability to manage multiple competing priorities and ambiguous scenarios.

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• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact confidently and professionally at all organizational levels.

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• Proficiency in Applicant Tracking Systems and scheduling platforms.

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• Passion for talent, process excellence, and delivering a high-quality, human-centered candidate experience.

About Us Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.

About The Team Fanatics Commerce is a leading designer, manufacturer, and seller of licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods. It operates a vertically-integrated platform of digital and physical capabilities for leading sports leagues, teams, colleges, and associations globally – as well as its flagship site, www.fanatics.com.

Fanatics Commerce has a broad range of online, sports venue, and vertical apparel partnerships worldwide, including comprehensive partnerships with leading leagues, teams, colleges, and sports organizations across the world—including the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, Formula 1, and Australian Football League (AFL); the Dallas Cowboys, Golden State Warriors, Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester United, Chelsea FC, and Tokyo Giants; the University of Notre Dame, University of Alabama, and University of Texas; the International Olympic Committee (IOC), England Rugby, and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).

At Fanatics Commerce, we infuse our BOLD Leadership Principles in everything we do:

• Build Championship Teams
• Obsessed with Fans
• Limitless Entrepreneurial Spirit
• Determined and Relentless Mindset