Junior / Senior Recruitment Consultant – Quantum Technology

Scope Group; Brentwood; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Scope Group is a specialist recruitment business operating at the heart of the global quantum technology market. We partner with 35+ companies across the quantum ecosystem, from venture-backed start-ups to leading quantum firms, recruiting scientists, engineers and commercial talent.

We’re growing our team and open to Junior Recruitment Consultants starting a career in specialist recruitment, or experienced Consultants moving into a high-growth, deep-tech market with international potential.

Qualifications

• Ambitious, competitive, commercially minded and curious.
• Junior hires: sixth form or university and progression tied to performance.
• Senior level: proven recruitment/headhunting or business development track record.

Responsibilities

• Head-hunt highly specialised scientists, engineers and tech leaders globally.
• Build long-term relationships with passive candidates.
• Learn complex quantum technology and speak credibly with technical candidates.
• Work with founders, CTOs, VPs and hiring leaders at quantum companies.
• Manage recruitment processes from search to offer and placement.
• Develop new client relationships and expand existing accounts.
• Map emerging companies, technologies and talent pools.
• Advise clients on talent availability and market activity.
• Attend industry conferences and build presence in the global quantum ecosystem.
• Develop own specialist market and grow ownership of client relationships.

Skills

Tenacious

Competitive

Money motivated

Curious

Confident communicators

Commercial mindset

Self-driven

Ambitious

Job description

Company: Scope Group

Employment: Full-Time

Level: Junior Consultant through to Senior Consultant

Sector: Quantum Computing, Quantum Technology & Photonics

About Scope

Scope is a specialist recruitment business operating at the heart of the global quantum technology market.

We partner with 35+ companies across the quantum ecosystem, from ambitious venture-backed start-ups through to some of the world's leading and publicly traded quantum technology companies.

Our clients are developing technologies across quantum computing, quantum error correction, neutral atoms, trapped ions, photonics, quantum sensing, quantum software and enabling hardware.

We recruit internationally across the UK, Europe, US and Asia, working directly with founders, CTOs, VPs and technical leaders to identify highly specialised scientists, engineers and commercial talent.

We're now looking to grow our own team.

We're open to people at two different stages: Junior Recruitment Consultants looking to build a career in specialist recruitment, and experienced Recruitment Consultants who want to move into one of the fastest-developing deep-tech markets globally.

The Opportunity

This isn't high-volume recruitment.

You'll learn a highly technical market, build relationships with some of the strongest people in the quantum ecosystem and become a genuine specialist within your area.

You'll be responsible for developing both the candidate and client side of your market, ultimately building a network that includes scientists, engineers, founders, CTOs, investors and senior industry leaders.

For junior hires, no recruitment or quantum experience is required. We're looking for the underlying attributes and will teach you recruitment, headhunting and the market.

For experienced consultants, we're looking for people who can bring strong recruitment fundamentals and want the opportunity to develop a highly valuable specialist desk.

What You'll Be Doing

• Headhunting highly specialised scientists, engineers and technology leaders globally.
• Building long-term relationships with passive candidates who are rarely actively applying for jobs.
• Learning complex areas of quantum technology and becoming credible when speaking with technical candidates and clients.
• Working directly with founders, CTOs, VPs and hiring leaders at quantum companies.
• Managing recruitment processes from initial search through to offer and placement.
• Developing new client relationships and expanding existing accounts.
• Mapping emerging companies, technologies and talent pools.
• Advising clients on talent availability, compensation and competitor hiring activity.
• Attending industry conferences and building your presence within the global quantum ecosystem.
• Developing your own specialist market and, with progression, taking increasing ownership of client relationships and revenue.

What We're Looking For

We're interested in people who are ambitious, competitive, commercially minded and genuinely curious.

For junior hires, you may have recently finished sixth form or university and be looking for a career where your progression and earnings are closely connected to your performance.

An interest in technology, current affairs, business or sport is a strong cultural fit. You don't need to arrive knowing quantum mechanics, but you do need to be someone who wants to understand what is happening in the world and can become obsessed with learning a market.

We're particularly interested in people who are:

• Tenacious – recruitment involves rejection; you keep going.
• Competitive – you want to perform and improve.
• Money motivated – you want your earnings to increase significantly as you become successful.
• Curious – you're interested in technology, businesses and people.
• Confident communicators – you're comfortable picking up the phone and building relationships.
• Commercially minded – you can understand what motivates both candidates and clients.
• Self-driven – you don't need someone constantly telling you what to do next.
• Ambitious – you want to build something rather than simply have a job.

For the Senior Consultant level, we're additionally looking for a proven track record in recruitment, headhunting or business development. Previous quantum experience isn't essential.

Why Scope?

Work in a genuinely specialist market.

Rather than recruiting generic roles across hundreds of companies, you'll develop expertise in one of the most technically advanced talent markets in the world.

Established client base.

Scope already has partnerships with 35+ companies across quantum technology, including publicly traded businesses and some of the industry's most exciting private companies.

Global exposure.

Our searches regularly take us across Europe, the US and Asia, giving you access to an international candidate and client network.

Access to senior decision-makers.

You'll build relationships directly with founders, CTOs, VPs and other leaders shaping their companies' technical roadmaps.

High-value recruitment.

Quantum talent is scarce. Many of the searches we work on involve highly specialised PhD-level scientists, senior engineers and technical leaders, making quality and market knowledge far more important than CV volume.

Strong earning potential.

You'll have the opportunity to build a high-value recruitment desk where your financial progression is directly linked to your performance.

Career progression.

As you develop, you'll have the opportunity to own a market, grow key accounts and ultimately help build and lead teams within Scope.

Who This Could Suit

Junior: Someone leaving sixth form or university who is competitive, articulate, hungry to earn and wants to get into technology without becoming an engineer themselves.

Experienced: A recruiter who has already demonstrated they can build candidate and client relationships and now wants to specialise in a high-growth, technically complex market with significant international potential.

You do not need an existing background in quantum technology.

You do need the drive to learn it.

If you want to build a recruitment career while working with companies and people developing technologies that could fundamentally change computing and science, we'd like to hear from you.