Smarkets

Lead Talent Partner

Smarkets

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • Talent Strategy & Partnership (30%)
  • - Strategic Planning: Act as a trusted partner to the Leadership Team and Hiring Managers, developing and executing a data-driven talent acquisition strategy aligned with our goals.
  • - Technical Bar Ownership: Define, articulate, and maintain our exceptionally high technical and cultural bar. Continuously refine assessment methods to ensure we hire individuals who thrive in a complex, fast-moving environment.
  • - Employer Branding: Champion and articulate the company's value proposition to the external market, particularly within the competitive London tech landscape.
  • Full-Cycle Recruitment & Execution (70%)
  • - Sourcing & Headhunting: Execute proactive, advanced sourcing strategies (not just relying on job boards) to build deep pipelines for highly specialized and hard-to-fill technical roles.
  • - Candidate Experience: Own and deliver a best-in-class, personalized candidate experience from initial contact through offer acceptance.
  • - Screening & Assessment: Conduct in-depth, competency-based screening interviews, effectively serving as the initial technical and cultural filter for all candidates.
  • - Offer Negotiation: Manage complex offer negotiations, compensation benchmarking, and closing strategies.

Requirements

  • Experience (12+ Years): A minimum of 12 years of progressive experience in technical recruitment, specifically within the high-growth tech/startup environment.
  • Startup/Standalone Expertise: Proven experience operating as a standalone internal recruiter or successfully managing the entire recruitment lifecycle (end-to-end) within an agency environment, demonstrating deep self-sufficiency and resourcefulness.
  • Technical Acumen: Deep, demonstrable understanding of modern software development, architecture, and tech stacks common in Series B companies (e.g., Cloud technologies, modern programming languages, data engineering).
  • London Tech Market: Established network and expert knowledge of the London/UK technical talent landscape.
  • Nice to have: Previous experience hiring technical and operational talents in the East Coast.
Benefits
  • Stock Options: Vest over 4 years, your success is our success.
  • Pension Scheme: Competitive plan via Aviva, with up to 6% matched contributions if you opt in.
  • Health Insurance: Comprehensive coverage to keep you and your family healthy.
  • Enhanced Parental Leave: Enhanced maternity and paternity leave to support you through life’s most important moments.
  • Stay Fuelled: Enjoy fresh, chef-made breakfast and lunch every day, plus a constant supply of fruit, snacks, tea, coffee and soft drinks, because great work starts with great food.
  • Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Support for sustainable commuting and staying active.
  • Learning & Development: £1,000 annual education budget for courses, conferences, books, or training.
  • Holiday: 25 days paid leave + bank holidays, with the option to carry over 5 days.
  • Flexible Working: Hybrid model with 3 days in the office and 2 days from home to fit your lifestyle.
  • Global Working: Work from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days a year.
  • Team Energy: Regular socials, hackathons, and events — because collaboration and fun go hand-in-hand.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
technical recruitmentsourcing strategiesscreening interviewsoffer negotiationdata-driven talent acquisitioncompensation benchmarkingcandidate experienceassessment methodstechnical and cultural filterend-to-end recruitment lifecycle
Soft skills
strategic planningpartnershipresourcefulnessself-sufficiencycommunicationleadershippersonalizationnegotiationtrustworthinessadaptability