Founding Recruiter

Mat Vin; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mat Vin is scaling rapidly and seeking a hands-on Head of Hiring to own end-to-end recruitment for engineering, product and GTM teams. You will design the hiring system, run it with the founders, and build high-ownership processes from scratch.

You will source directly, build long-term pipelines, and implement clear scoring and feedback loops to ensure top talent fits the technical bar and team culture as we grow.

Qualifications

• 4–7+ years experience recruiting engineers.
• Experience in early-stage or scaling startups.
• Proven ability to source directly, not just manage inbound.
• Strong intuition for technical bar & team fit.

Responsibilities

• Own the hiring engine and end-to-end hiring for engineering, product and GTM roles.
• Translate headcount plans into clear hiring strategies.
• Own pipelines, prioritisation, and time-to-hire.
• Design and continuously improve scorecards, feedback loops and hiring metrics.

Skills

Engineering recruitment

Sourcing directly

Startup hiring

Hiring analytics

LinkedIn Recruiter

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

Job description

We’re transforming one of the last untapped industries where billion-dollar enterprises still rely on pen and paper. Inspections are critical to global safety, yet the technology behind them still mostly functions on manual processes.

Every day, over a million inspectors manually assess infrastructure, factories, and goods using processes that haven’t evolved in decades. The result? Delays, errors, and billions in losses. We’re using AI to change that - building a future where inspections are instant, precise, and fully automated.

We’ve raised an oversubscribed pre-seed round totalling $4M from tier one investors (who backed Stripe, Lime, Discord, Flexport).

We work with some of the largest Testing, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) companies globally increasing inspection throughput.

This is an incredible moment to join as we scale rapidly toward Series A.

About this role

We’re entering a phase of sustained growth and want to build hiring as a core capability .

This role owns end-to-end hiring alongside the founders for engineering, product and GTM roles and will shape how we attract, assess, and close talent as we scale.

This is a hands-on, high-ownership role . You’ll help design the system and run it.

What we’re looking for

Must-haves

• 4–7+ years experience recruiting engineers
• Experience in early-stage or scaling startups
• Proven ability to source directly , not just manage inbound
• Strong intuition for technical bar & team fit

Nice-to-haves

• Experience as a first or early recruiter
• Experience building hiring processes from scratch

What you’ll do

Own the hiring engine

• Translate headcount plans into clear hiring strategies
• Own pipelines, prioritisation, and time-to-hire
• Design and continuously improve:
• Scorecards
• Feedback loops
• Hiring metrics (time-to-hire, pass-through rates, source quality)

Source like an operator

• Proactively source high-signal candidates (LinkedIn, referrals, outbound)
• Build and maintain long-term talent pipelines
• Set clear expectations and close loops properly

Amsterdam, Netherlands, Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, Netherlands