Talent Specialist – Marketing & Growth Hiring

About the role

Pangolin Marketing is a B2B marketing agency for companies with long sales cycles (SaaS, climate tech, enterprise software) that does branding, SEO and AEO, B2B storytelling and growth marketing. As Talent Specialist, you report to the HR Generalist and own hiring end to end for a set of roles, from strategy and sourcing to evaluation and closing. Success is measured by the quality of hires and how long they stay, not by the number of positions filled.

Key responsibilities

• Build a hiring strategy for each role: profile, level, salary range, target cities and channels, including internship colleges
• Benchmark agencies' approaches to similar roles and adapt them
• Choose the right sourcing channel for each role and keep talent maps current by role and city
• Design AI workflows for market mapping, benchmarking, screening notes and reporting, and document them
• Shape assignments and live, screen-shared working sessions to evaluate candidates, treating AI use as something to observe and grade
• Screen, interview, debrief and close with written reasoning, keeping a clean funnel in the hiring tracker
• Treat every candidate, hired or not, with respect and honesty

Required profile

• 2 to 4 years of end-to-end hiring, ideally for marketing, creative, consulting or other business roles at an agency, startup or professional services firm
• Has closed offers themselves, not only sourced for others
• Curious about the work behind the CV, comfortable with evidence and research, able to explain judgment
• Clear writing and intellectual honesty
• A background in psychology, research, economics or marketing is a plus

The application asks for one short written answer about a hire that went wrong and what it taught you, followed by a 30-minute screening call, a take-home assignment on a real role and a live interview.