Junior Talent Partner - Tech

Unlikely Artificial Intelligence Limited.; London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI company is seeking a Junior Talent Partner to enhance tech hiring capabilities and improve operational efficiency. This role involves sourcing diverse tech talent, ensuring a seamless onboarding experience, and supporting various talent projects in a collaborative and fast-paced environment. If you're passionate about tech recruitment and eager to make an impact, this is the opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years in an in-house Talent/People Operations role.
• Hands-on tech sourcing experience; ideally within a tech startup or agency.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal.

Responsibilities

• Source and engage top tech talent across various domains.
• Conduct initial screenings and deliver exceptional candidate experiences.
• Coordinate logistics for hiring-related events like career fairs.

Skills

Communication

Organisation

Detail-oriented

Tech Sourcing

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

Slack

GSuite

GitHub

ATS tools like Lever

Job description

We’re looking for a sharp and motivated Junior Talent Partner with a passion for tech hiring and strong operational foundations. You'll play a key role in helping us scale by finding and engaging exceptional talent, while ensuring a smooth and efficient experience for candidates and new joiners alike. This is a hands-on, high-impact role that offers a fantastic opportunity to deepen your expertise across the full hiring and people lifecycle, spanning tech recruitment, people operations, and talent projects. You’ll work closely with hiring managers and cross-functional teams in a fast-moving, supportive environment that values ownership, creativity, and high standards.

Please see our Company Principles to understand the core things we value – in particular, we are looking for exceptional people in order to create something extraordinary with huge impact.

Talent Acquisition – Tech Focus

• Source and engage top tech talent across Engineering, Product, and Applied Science by executing targeted sourcing strategies that attract high-quality, diverse candidates through LinkedIn and other platforms.

• Support scheduling and coordination for interviews, including candidate communications and feedback loops.

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records in our ATS, ensuring seamless collaboration across hiring teams.

• Partner with hiring managers to define requirements and deliver an exceptional candidate experience.

• Conduct initial screenings to make recommendations based on the candidates' skills, experience and alignment with our company principles.

• Drive creative outreach campaigns and build talent pipelines using LinkedIn and other platforms

People Operations

• Prepare contracts of employment for new joiners

• Conduct right to work checks and support pre-employment compliance

• Deliver smooth onboarding experiences in collaboration with EA/Office Manager e.g. first-day comms, systems access, and culture touchpoints)

• Support with maintaining data integrity across all people systems and documentation.

Talent Projects & Initiatives

• Support ATS migration and implementation projects (e.g. testing workflows, migrating data, updating templates)

•Support employer branding initiatives and ad-hoc projects by writing content, contributing to LinkedIn campaigns, and partnering with technical recruiting and cross-functional teams to improve processes and enhance the experience for candidates and internal stakeholders.

• Coordinate logistics for hiring-related events such as career fairs, university partnerships, and meetups

Required

•Hands-on tech sourcing experience across Engineering, Machine Learning and Product.

• 2 - 3 years of experience + in-house Talent/People Operations role (ideally within a tech startup/scale up or agency with a strong tech focus)

• Detail-oriented and highly organised, with exceptional communication skills, written and verbal.

• Interested in building strong candidate and employee experiences.

• Comfortable using tools like Slack, GSuite, LinkedIn Recruiter & GitHub.

• Bonus: experience using ATS tools like Lever.

•Team player – willingness to “muck in” and help colleagues.

Location:

We are currently operating a hybrid scheme with a small office near Holborn tube station available to anyone who wants to work there. We also have occasional team days where everyone meets face to face and days where people work heads down from home, communicating with colleagues using Slack and Zoom.

Compensation:

Compensation will be through salary and generous share options. The company has a tax-efficient EMI share option scheme set up (not available to larger companies) which allows us to provide real exposure to the success of the company without taxes being due when they are paid.

Equal Opportunities:

We are committed to having a truly diverse team where everyone is encouraged to be their authentic selves. We, therefore, do not discriminate in employment based on gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, disability, age, marital status, medical history, parental status or genetic information. Having a broad mix of people helps us to be the best we can.