Senior Talent Partner - Tech

The role

You will own R&D hiring from intake to signed offer for Product Engineers, Applied AI and LLM Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers and Designers. You will partner with engineering and product leaders to define hiring standards and run technical processes.

What you will do

• Deliver bar-raising R&D hires each quarter
• Own a robust, fair and fast recruiting process
• Source engineers directly via GitHub, research communities, alumni networks and competitor teams
• Run technical loops with tight take-homes and calibrated interviewers
• Own the candidate from first message to first day
• Report on your funnel every week and fix what the data shows

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting
• At least 3 hiring software engineers at product-led tech companies
• Comfortable discussing stacks, levels and system design with engineers
• A track record of hires per quarter, offer acceptance, and hire performance
• Most recent hires sourced by you, not from inbound
• Fluency with Ashby or a similar ATS
• Real use of AI in your own workflow

Nice to have

• Hired AI, ML or LLM engineers
• Hired product managers and designers alongside engineering
• Relocated engineers into the UK, including visa sponsorship

About the company

Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams. The company aims to help legal teams move faster and reduce unnecessary external counsel spend.