Responsibilities
- Translate company goals into a hiring plan, sequence roles by criticality, and run the weekly operating cadence with founders and hiring managers.
- Track time-to-hire, source-of-hire, conversion, and quality-of-hire with the discipline of a growth lead tracking CAC.
- Personally source and close the hardest hires.
- Build campaigns, write sequences, and run pipelines that get responses from passive candidates.
- Develop networks across SaaS, AI, Product, Engineering, and Growth in London and internationally.
- Design scorecards, interview loops, work tasks, and assessment frameworks for every function.
- Select and implement the ATS, sourcing tools, AI workflows, and ops stack.
- Build the playbook every future hire in your function will run.
- Act as the final filter on every hire.
- Calibrate hiring managers, run debriefs, and own the recommendation at offer stage.
- Make Searchable a place top operators want to work.
- Make every candidate interaction something people talk about positively whether they get the job or not.
- Hire and lead the internal talent function as we scale.
- Coach future recruiters to the standard you’ve set.
Requirements
- Six to ten or more years in recruitment or talent acquisition, with meaningful in-house experience at a high-growth SaaS, AI, or venture-backed startup.
- Demonstrable track record of personally closing senior hires from elite companies. We want to see specific names and roles, not vague claims.
- Experience building or substantially rebuilding a recruiting function from scratch or near-scratch.
- Strong outbound sourcing skills, with evidence of replies and closes from passive candidates. You can talk us through your sequences, your hit rates, and your closes.
- Comfortable hiring across the stack: Engineering, AI/ML, Product, GTM, and Leadership.
- High agency, high urgency, and complete ownership of outcomes.
- Experience hiring for AI, ML, infrastructure, developer tooling, or technical SaaS companies.
- Existing networks across London’s AI, SaaS, Product, Engineering, and Growth ecosystems.
- Experience using AI-native recruiting workflows, enrichment tools, automation, or Clay-style outbound systems.
- Prior experience as the first talent hire in a venture-backed company.
- Experience hiring internationally or building distributed talent pipelines.
Benefits
- Salary: £120,000 (DOE) + Bonus
- Significant equity at an early stage in a market that is moving fast.
- 25 days paid vacation and leading parental and childcare policies
Work Arrangement
On-site — London
Additional Information
- Office-based, 5 days per week — we work best together in person.
