Senior Talent Partner

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Act as the primary in-house recruiter for Ably, reporting directly to the VP of People.

• Take full ownership of the hiring process from initial discussions with hiring managers to signed job offers.

• Establish and enhance interview processes, recruiting tools, sourcing strategies, and the overall candidate experience.

• Manage comprehensive recruiting efforts across engineering, go-to-market (GTM), and other positions.

• Focus on recruiting highly technical engineering talent, including experts in distributed systems.

• Collaborate closely with hiring managers, including the CTO.

• Align hiring briefs and convert complex technical specifications into straightforward candidate profiles.

• Carry out outbound sourcing, candidate screening, interviews, and closing offers.

• Assist in managing offers and compensation discussions alongside the People team.

• Enhance structured interviews and scorecards to ensure fair and consistent evaluations.

• Optimize the use of Greenhouse and hiring metrics reporting.

• Implement AI technologies in sourcing, outreach, screening, and administrative tasks.

• Oversee and negotiate relationships with recruitment agencies.

• Influence Ably’s employer branding and candidate experience.

• Facilitate successful integration for new hires prior to their start date.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in sourcing and closing high-caliber engineers, preferably in infrastructure or distributed systems.

• Strong technical knowledge that earns the respect of engineering candidates.

• Excellent judgment when collaborating with hiring managers.

• Experience in calibrating hiring briefs, providing candid feedback, and executing structured, equitable interview processes.

• Demonstrated full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally as the primary or lead recruiter in a startup or scale-up environment.

• Familiarity with hiring across the UK and Europe.

• Proficient in hands-on outbound sourcing and market mapping.

• Track record of metrics that demonstrate sourcing effectiveness.

• Regular use of AI in professional tasks.

• Experience in managing recruitment agencies, including negotiating contracts and holding them accountable.

• Additional experience hiring for developer tools, AI, or open-source companies is advantageous.

• A background in agency recruiting is a plus.

• Familiarity with Greenhouse ATS is beneficial.

• Active engagement in technology or recruiting communities, with comfort in representing Ably publicly is a bonus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible remote-first work environment.

• Access to the London office whenever desired.

• EMI share options program.

• 28 days of paid annual leave, including a day off for your birthday.

• Enhanced parental leave: up to 16 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers and 4 weeks for secondary caregivers, depending on length of service.

• £500 budget for a home workstation upon joining and £150 annually thereafter.

• £1,000 annual budget for personal learning and development.

• 5% of work hours dedicated to learning and development.

• Private healthcare provided by BUPA.

• Medical cash plan covering healthcare and dental expenses.

• Mental wellbeing coaching and counseling from Self Space.

• Monthly wellbeing budget through Juno.

• Life assurance and income protection benefits.

• Tech and Cycle to Work schemes available.

• Weekly snack allowance for the end-of-week “Need to Know” meeting.

• Fully paid one-month sabbatical after five years with Ably.