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Talent Specialist

📍 London | Full-time | On-site (5 days/week)
💰 £40k base + £15k OTE (£55k total)
👥 Team: People & Talent

About the Role

As a Talent Acquisition Specialist, you’ll play a key role in helping us attract, engage, and hire top talent across the business. Working closely with our Global Head of Talent, Senior Talent Partners, and hiring managers, you’ll support and deliver a seamless, high-quality hiring experience from start to finish. From finding and engaging great candidates to running interview processes and closing hires, you’ll play a key role in building the teams that drive our growth.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone early in their recruitment career who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You’ll be hands-on, proactive, and trusted with real ownership from day one.

What You’ll Be Doing

Partner with Talent Partners and hiring managers to support end-to-end hiring processes
Source and engage high-quality candidates across technical and non-technical roles globally
Craft personalised outreach to attract and convert passive talent
Screen applications, conduct initial calls, and assess candidate suitability
Coordinate interviews across multiple time zones and stakeholders
Maintain accurate data in our ATS and support scheduling and recruitment operations
Contribute to broader Talent initiatives, including employer branding, candidate experience, and hiring events

What We're Looking For

• 1–2 years’ experience in recruitment (agency or in-house), ideally in a fast-paced environment
• Strong sourcing capability and confidence building candidate pipelines across different functions
• Experience coordinating interviews and managing complex scheduling across global teams
• Familiarity with ATS platforms

Nice to Have

• Experience hiring internationally
• Exposure to high-growth startups or product-led tech companies
• Experience recruiting across both technical and commercial roles

Mindset & Attributes

• You continuously optimise, looking for ways to do things better, smarter and faster
• Lean into AI, using it to make you more efficient
• You take ownership and move things forward at pace
• You stay organised and keep a high bar even when things are busy
• You’re calm under pressure and comfortable adapting when priorities shift
• You’re collaborative, low ego, and enjoy being part of a fun team
• You’re curious and driven to grow

What We Can Offer You

Earn What You Deliver: A market leading incentive scheme with bonuses paid per hire. High performance is rewarded, not capped
Own Your Impact: Real ownership from day one. You’ll run your own hiring processes and directly influence how we scale
Grow Fast: Clear and intentional career progression with real opportunities to step into more senior roles as we scale
Learn from the Best: Work alongside a high-performing talent team with experience from Google, Meta, Amazon, Uber and more
Think Globally: Exposure to hiring across multiple markets, functions and levels, building a skillset that sets you apart
Travel & Connect:Opportunities for international travel and time spent with our teams across global offices
Work in a Space You’ll Love: A state of the art London office built for collaboration, energy and being together in person
Enjoy the Ride: A social, driven environment with Friday drinks and the occasional karaoke session at the bar
High Performance Culture: We move quickly, raise the bar, and recognise people who deliver

Interview Process

Screening Call (30 mins) – Video-call with a member from the Talent Team
Skills Interview (45 mins) – Video-call with our Global Head of Talent
Final Stage (60 mins, in-person) – Meet the wider People & Talent team and present a short task


We aim to complete the interview process and provide feedback within two weeks.
Every application is reviewed manually by our Talent Team. While we strive to assess applications within 7 days, the high volume of interest from talented candidates may occasionally extend this timeline.