Recruiter - 6 Month Contract

Location: Fully remote; recruitment spans multiple countries and time zones.

Company

hirify.global is a Sydney-based creative entertainment company creating IP-driven products across animation, consumer products, publishing, games, licensing, and digital media.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle recruitment for full-time, freelance, and contract roles across animation, art, technology, and game production.
• Partner with hiring managers and department leads to define requirements, hiring plans, timelines, and priorities across a high volume of concurrent roles.
• Build talent pipelines and freelance benches for recurring specialist roles, including artists, riggers, animators, compositors, and voice-over talent.
• Lead salary negotiations and benchmarking, manage recruitment agencies, and coordinate with payroll, legal, and EOR partners for compliant global hiring.
• Shape the Employer Value Proposition, job postings, candidate communications, interview guides, scorecards, and interviewer training.
• Improve recruitment reporting, ATS data quality, recruiting technology, and automated workflows for sourcing, screening, scheduling, communications, and offer generation.

Requirements

• Proven full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally in animation, VFX, gaming, entertainment, or a related creative industry.
• Experience recruiting freelance, contract, and full-time talent and understanding the differences between these engagement types.
• Familiarity with ATS platforms, including JazzHR, and broader recruitment technology.
• Hands-on experience using or implementing AI and automation tools in recruitment workflows.
• Experience with salary benchmarking, competitive offer development, and DocuSign or similar e-signature platforms.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, organisation, and prioritisation skills for managing many concurrent roles.

Nice to have

• Existing freelance talent networks in animation or gaming.
• Recruitment experience for niche technical and art roles, including riggers, look development artists, and Unreal Engine specialists.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible, fully remote six-month contract with potential extension or conversion to a permanent role.
• Opportunity to shape recruitment, the Employer Value Proposition, and hiring processes at a growing indie studio.
• Small People and Culture team with direct influence on hiring practices.
• Exposure to animation and game production pipelines and their creators.
• Art-first, innovative, collaborative, inclusive environment with support for independent input and career development.