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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions,

Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
Protection Starts with People. Proofpoint.

The Role

To enable our continued trajectory as one of the world’s fastest growing Cyber Security vendors, we are seeking a dedicated, creative, and tenacious Talent Acquisition Sourcing Specialist (sourcer) to join our hands-on recruitment team supporting business leaders globally.

You will be responsible for attracting and securing outstanding candidates to work at Proofpoint across multiple business units, including engineering, G&A, and sales.

In this role, you will be expected to identify, attract, and convert potential candidates into hires for roles at Proofpoint, all while providing an excellent candidate experience.

With a focus on multiple job families, this person will work closely with senior and principal recruiters to align on candidate skills and experience requirements to ensure alignment and effective sourcing.

Your day-to-day

• Targeted sourcing for various positions globally.
• Effective “seller” of the Proofpoint business to prospective candidates
• Partner with recruiters and hiring managers in defining a recruitment strategy to source the best talent based on the business needs and goals
• Partner with HR colleagues and stakeholders on HR programs and hiring initiatives
• Identify, attract, and hire high-quality candidates through the development and implementation of innovative recruitment sourcing programs and strategies
• Communicate recruiting activity, challenges and results with hiring managers, recruiters, and the talent acquisition leadership team
• Report on sourcing outputs, metrics, and prospect pipelines
• Leverage ATS (Workday Recruit) and LinkedIn Recruiter for candidate sourcing, organization, and communications

What you bring to the team

• Experience in SaaS sales sourcing and attraction methods, targeting talent within the technology sector, preferably in security, SaaS or Infrastructure
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent search assignments
• Demonstrate understanding of recruiter and hiring managers’ needs and identify top-calibre talent
• Excellent negotiation skills with the ability to deliver a compelling vision and opportunity to prospective candidates
• Collaborative, customer-focused, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, result-oriented environment
• Proven track record of delivering recruitment assignments to tight timescales
• Experience working with an Applicant Tracking System (Workday Recruit);
• Process-orientated and good attention to detail Influential stakeholder and candidate management skills, including ability to manage internal leadership expectations Uncompromising desire to create an outstanding candidate experience
• This is a hybrid role in our Reading, UK office

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! LifeAtProofpoint

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you’ll enjoy your career with us!