Talent Partner

Who you are

• You have strong experience owning and delivering end-to-end recruitment across multiple live roles
• You bring genuine expertise in Product and Engineering hiring, with the technical understanding and market knowledge to work credibly with hiring teams
• You’re a confident direct sourcer who knows how to find, engage and build relationships with strong candidates
• You’re highly delivery-focused, organised and proactive, and you naturally create momentum without needing lots of direction
• You’re comfortable with ambiguity and incomplete information, and can change direction quickly when business priorities shift
• You can challenge constructively, stay pragmatic and judge when to advise, when to push and when to help a hiring manager move forward
• You’re happy to recruit outside your core specialism when needed. Experience in a fast-paced or scale-up environment would be valuable
• If this sounds like your kind of thing, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We’d love to hear from you

What the job involves

• We’re looking for a talent partner to join our People team, reporting to our talent lead. We have an ambitious hiring plan and need an experienced recruiter who can help us bring great people into Seccl at pace
• This is a hands-on delivery role. You’ll primarily support our Product and Engineering teams, owning roles from intake and sourcing through to interview, offer and close. Product and Engineering will be your core focus, but you’ll also pick up hiring across other teams as our priorities change
• You’ll build trusted relationships with hiring managers and bring clear advice, market insight and constructive challenge. You’ll help teams make strong decisions and keep hiring moving, while recognising that hiring managers remain accountable for the final call
• Things move quickly here and plans change. You’ll need to be comfortable working with ambiguity, adapting your approach and switching focus without losing momentum. You’ll care about a high hiring bar and a brilliant candidate experience, while staying pragmatic about how we get there
• Delivering end-to-end hiring across a portfolio of roles, primarily within Product and Engineering, while flexing across Seccl when priorities change to support with non-Technical roles
• Building strong candidate pipelines through direct sourcing, agency management, creative search approaches and thoughtful engagement
• Creating pace across every hiring process, spotting blockers early and keeping candidates and hiring teams moving
• Partnering with hiring managers and leaders to clarify what they need, share market insight and support strong, evidence-based decisions
• Maintaining a high hiring bar and an inclusive, engaging experience without adding unnecessary process or complexity
• Using hiring data and day-to-day insight to improve delivery, sharing practical ideas with the talent lead and wider People team
• Most of your time will be spent actively delivering hiring and owning live roles
• Our needs can change quickly, so you’ll need to adapt and make sensible calls without perfect information
• Product and Engineering will be your focus, but you’ll pick up roles across Seccl when needed
• We want you to bring expertise and challenge, while enabling hiring managers to make the call and keep things moving
• Direct sourcing and proactive pipeline building are important parts of this role

The application process

• Interviewing is a two-way process. Our interviews are conversational, with plenty of time for you to get to know us and ask questions too
• First stage - competencies based interview with the talent lead
• Second stage - interview with the head of people and talent lead to delve into your technical skills (this may include a case study or live interview task)
• Final stage - 45 mins bar-raiser culture-based interview with two key stakeholders for this role
• We review applications as they come in and may close the role once we have enough candidates to move forward. We’ll keep you updated throughout

Benefits

• Flexible/hybrid working: We don’t prescribe when or how many days you come into the office. It’s what you deliver that’s important
• Events and socials: Twice-yearly all-company offsites, regular team socials and plenty of non-work activities – from gigs to sporting activities – to get stuck into
• Private medical: Access GP and other health and dental appointments work through private medical insurance
• Focus on mental health: Your wellbeing is more important than work. We offer free and confidential access to therapy if you need it
• Long-service award: A month’s fully-paid sabbatical when you’ve worked here for eight years (we’re part of Octopus, after all)
• The usual stuff: 27 days’ holiday (plus religious holidays and your birthday), Cycle2Work scheme and workplace pension