Founding Talent Lead | Build Our Recruiting Engine

MLabs Ltd

Greater London

On-site

GBP 67,229 - 104,578

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

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Quarterly bonus

Job summary

MLabs Ltd seeks a Founding Talent Lead to build the recruiting engine from scratch, partnering with the founding team across engineering, sales, claims, and operations to source top professionals.

You will own end-to-end recruitment, design scalable processes, and establish onboarding and early performance management in a fast-growing startup. Equity and quarterly bonuses are part of the compensation package.

Qualifications

  • 2–7 years of full-lifecycle recruiting experience, preferably in fast-growing startups.
  • Proven ability to build recruitment processes from scratch.
  • Strong sourcing skills and deep network across engineering and leadership roles.
  • Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.

Responsibilities

  • Own the full hiring lifecycle from profile creation to offers and closures.
  • Proactive talent sourcing and pipeline generation through outbound and referrals.
  • Build scalable recruitment systems and ATS workflows.
  • Design and optimize employee referral programs.
  • Collaborate on onboarding processes and early performance management.

Skills

Full-lifecycle recruitment
Talent sourcing
Stakeholder management
Process design
Communication & relationships

Job description

MLabs Ltd seeks a Founding Talent Lead to build the recruiting engine from scratch, partnering with the founding team across engineering, sales, claims, and operations to source top professionals.

You will own end-to-end recruitment, design scalable processes, and establish onboarding and early performance management in a fast-growing startup. Equity and quarterly bonuses are part of the compensation package.

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