Senior Talent Acquisition Partner (Tech) - AI, Scale-Up

Senior Talent Partner (Tech)

Location: London (Hybrid - 1-2 days in office, flexible)

Industry: AI

Salary: £75,000-£80,000 + Stock Options

Hawkwood are partnering with a high-growth, AI scale-up that counts many of the world's leading financial organisations and law firms among their loyal customers.

The business has achieved exceptional and sustained growth, doubling its revenue year-on-year for the past five years while rapidly expanding its global footprint across London, New York, and Belfast to meet increasing customer demand. Following a recently announced and highly successful Series C funding round, the company has now reached unicorn status and is continuing to invest heavily in product innovation, international expansion, and customer success. 📈

The Role:

We are looking for a high-performing Senior Talent Partner to join the London-based talent team, with a focus on Product, Data, and broader Tech hiring.

Reporting into the Tech Talent Lead, you will work as part of a close-knit Talent Acquisition team, whilst partnering closely with senior stakeholders across the tech organisation. If you’re a recruiter with a strong ownership mindset, experience hiring across multiple technical domains, and a passion for modern, AI-enabled recruiting practices, then we’d love to hear from you.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Owning the end-to-end recruitment process across Product, Data, and Engineering roles
• Building strong partnerships with hiring managers and product leadership to align hiring with business priorities
• Proactively sourcing and engaging passive candidates across multiple channels
• Building and maintaining high-quality talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs
• Conducting structured screening and delivering clear, actionable insights to stakeholders
• Driving efficient, high-quality hiring outcomes in a fast-paced environment
• Embedding and evolving best-in-class hiring practices, including data-driven decision making
• Leveraging AI tools and modern recruiting workflows to improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Championing inclusive hiring practices and contributing to a diverse talent pipeline
• Using data from our ATS (Ashby) to inform decisions and continuously improve processes.

About You:

• Proven experience hiring for Product and Engineering roles, ideally across multiple technical domains
• Experience operating in startup or scale-up environments, with exposure to fast-paced, ambiguous environments
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and partner with senior hiring managers
• Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end hiring pipelines and delivery outcomes
• A ‘hunter’ mentality, with proven ability to build pipelines in competitive markets through proactive sourcing
• Experience using modern, data-driven and AI-enabled recruiting practices (e.g. sourcing tools, automation, workflow optimisation)
• Ability to operate with high autonomy and accountability
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail.

If you are interested in this opportunity, we kindly request that you apply via this LinkedIn advert, as opposed to sending us an email or a LinkedIn direct message. We are eager to ensure that each candidate application is considered fairly and receives a consistent experience. Unfortunately, we cannot ensure this standard if you enquire about a role via email or LinkedIn message, as it falls outside of our established process.