Senior Talent Partner
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Job description
Sole in-house Senior Talent Partner at Ably, owning full-cycle recruiting end-to-end and reporting to the VP of People. The role focuses on raising hiring quality, especially for deeply technical engineering roles, across a remote-first 60-person company.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Europe
What you'll do
- Calibrate hiring briefs before going to market, working with each hiring manager to turn complex technical requirements into a clear picture of who is needed, and give honest feedback when the brief needs to change.
- Run outbound sourcing, screens and interviews, and close offers for engineering, GTM and other roles, supporting offers and compensation conversations alongside the People team.
- Build on structured interviews and scorecards so every process is fair, consistent and good at telling depth from polish.
- Make the most of Greenhouse and hiring reporting, and put AI to work across sourcing, outreach, screening and admin.
- Manage and negotiate agency relationships: decide where agencies add the most value, set the terms, and hold them to account.
- Be Ably's voice with candidates and the technical community, shape employer brand and candidate experience, and make sure new hires land well before they start.
What we're looking for
- A track record of finding and closing high-calibre engineers, ideally in infrastructure or distributed systems, and the technical grounding to earn engineers' respect.
- Strong judgement when partnering with hiring managers: calibrating a brief, giving honest feedback, and running a structured, fair interview process.
- Proven full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally as the sole or lead recruiter in a start-up or scale-up, hiring across the UK and Europe.
- Hands-on outbound sourcing and market mapping, with the numbers to show what works, and a habit of using AI in how you work.
- Experience managing recruitment agencies, including negotiating terms and holding them to account.
Nice to have
- Experience hiring for developer tools, AI, or open source companies.
- A background in agency recruiting.
- Familiarity with Greenhouse ATS.
- An active presence in tech or recruiting communities, online or in person, and comfort being a public face for Ably.
Your team
People team
Reports to the VP of People; works closely with hiring managers, right up to the CTO.
Benefits
Enhanced parental leave: up to 16 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers and 4 weeks for secondary, depending on length of service.
- A remote-first and flexible work environment; London office (next to Old Street) available whenever wanted.
- Equity through EMI share options programme.
- Enhanced holiday allowance: 28 days of paid annual leave (27 regular days, plus a day off to enjoy your birthday).
- A home workstation budget of £500 on joining (and £150 per year after that).
- A personal learning and development budget of £1000 a year, plus 5% L&D time during working hours.
- Private healthcare with BUPA.
- A medical cash plan covering a range of medical and dental costs.
- Mental wellbeing coaching and counselling from Self Space.
- A monthly wellbeing budget via Juno.
- Life assurance and income protection.
- Access to Tech and Cycle to Work schemes.
- A weekly snack allowance for the end-of-week "Need to Know" meeting.
- A fully-paid one-month sabbatical after five years with Ably.
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About Ably
Realtime infrastructure for developers
Ably powers realtime digital experiences, delivering over 700 billion messages to more than 2 billion devices every month. Teams at HubSpot, Fin, Dialpad, NASCAR, Sportsbet, and General Motors build on Ably.
Mission
Helping build the infrastructure that will shape the next generation of the internet.
Key facts
- around 60 people
- Realtime infrastructure / developer tools
- Delivers over 700 billion messages to more than 2 billion devices every month
- Remote-first with a London office next to Old Street
- Company get-togethers twice a year, in February and August
- EMI share options programme
Partners & customers
What they value
- Open for all
- Tech needs humanity
- Even the best do better
- Bias for action
- Dependable by default
- Bold creativity wins