Senior AI & Engineering Recruiter

Dex; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Above-market base

Significant equity

Claude tokens

Private healthcare

Fertility benefits

Gym membership

Socials & offsites

MacBook Pro

Job summary

Dex is recruiting a senior client-facing recruiter to manage top AI, software engineering and quant roles in the UK. You will own relationships end to end, from briefing clients to delivering offers, working with founders and hiring managers to shape roles and timelines.

You will collaborate with a product and engineering team to refine hiring tools, using AI-assisted workflows and data to accelerate placements while maintaining high standards.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in tech, engineering or quant recruitment at a specialist agency or in-house at a startup or scaleup.
• Experience hiring for backend, infrastructure, ML/AI engineers, quant developers, researchers or founding engineers.
• Strong command of funnel metrics and conversion across stages.

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of client relationships end to end: brief, delivery, feedback and everything after.
• Run kick-offs that scope the role and validate requirements with clients.
• Manage the process on the client side to keep feedback fast and interviews moving.
• Use funnel data to diagnose stalled roles and explain losses to clients.
• Negotiate and close offers so both sides feel good about the outcome.
• Grow accounts from one search into the full hiring plan.

Skills

Tech recruitment

Client management

Funnel metrics

Negotiation

AI tooling

Job description

Dex is recruiting a senior client-facing recruiter to manage top AI, software engineering and quant roles in the UK. You will own relationships end to end, from briefing clients to delivering offers, working with founders and hiring managers to shape roles and timelines.

You will collaborate with a product and engineering team to refine hiring tools, using AI-assisted workflows and data to accelerate placements while maintaining high standards.