Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition

honeycomb.io; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 140,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

A progressive technology company is seeking a Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition to drive their recruitment strategy. This remote-first role will involve leading a talented team, enhancing recruiting processes, and fostering an inclusive hiring culture. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in full-cycle recruiting and a passion for creating equitable hiring practices. Competitive compensation offered including a salary range of $185,000 to $205,000.

Benefits

Generous equity program

Unlimited PTO

Paid sabbatical

Home office stipend

Comprehensive health benefits

Paid parental leave

Annual development allowance

Qualifications

• 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including at least 3 years in a recruiting leadership role.
• Proven ability to both lead a team and manage a personal requisition load.
• Strong track record in building scalable recruiting operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead talent acquisition strategy and partner with business leaders.
• Coach the recruiting team to meet performance goals.
• Enhance recruiting processes rooted in business needs.

Skills

Inclusive leadership

Data-driven talent acquisition

Coaching and mentoring

Building recruiting processes

Interpersonal skills

Tools

Greenhouse

LinkedIn Recruiter

Gem

Job description

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About the Job

What We’re Building

Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do! We’re working with well known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and were named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022 and 2023!

If you want to see what we’ve been up to, please check out these blog posts and Honeycomb.io press releases.

Who We Are

We come for the impact, and stay for the culture! We’re a talented, opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group of bees. We have conviction and we strive to live our values every day. We want our people to do what they truly love amongst a team of highly talented (but humble) peers.

How We Work

We are a remote-first company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1.

A Little More About The Role

The Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition will lead our talent acquisition strategy, partnering directly with business leaders to forecast hiring needs, deliver an exceptional candidate experience, and coach the recruiting team to meet performance goals. This role focuses on building simple, efficient, and scalable recruiting processes rooted in business needs — enhancing what works and avoiding unnecessary reinvention. While the Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition does not typically hold a personal requisition load, they may step in for high-priority or specialized searches when needed.

What You'll Do In The Role

• Build, inspire, and coach a high performing Talent Acquisition team
• Lead our recruiting DEI efforts within while partnering with the broader People team, employee resource groups and business groups
• Develop and champion long term data-driven talent acquisition strategy by partnering with leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
• Continuously improve TA processes, system efficiencies, reports, and recruiter/hiring manager enablement
• Create, maintain, and deliver reporting, insights, and metrics across business stakeholders to help drive a focus on execution and excellence in TA execution and operations
• Create a unique and intentional candidate experience
• Manage the strategy, project management, and execution of employer brand initiatives and campaigns
• Work closely with vendors such as Greenhouse, LinkedIn, and Gem to ensure the TA team is fully leveraging functionality of our tools and maximizing efficiency across platforms
• Lead regular updates and audits across platforms to maintain compliance within each global region we operate in

About You

• A people-first, inclusive leader who champions equitable hiring and builds a culture of belonging.
• Energized by the use of AI to accelerate and enhance recruiting experience, integrates AI responsibly into team operations.
• A player-coach who can step into high-priority searches while developing and coaching senior ICs.
• A talent acquisition thought leader with success in high growth and remote environments.
• Passionate about building structured interview processes that help us scale
• A strong advocate for rigorous job scoping to help leaders clarify role expectations and business critical hiring needs.
• Data-driven and fluent in funnel metrics, conversion rates, forecasting, and using insights to coach the team and advocate Talent's role to the business through story telling.
• Embrace experimentation and leverages feedback to iterate and improve processes and practices to scale
• Capable of assessing needs, influencing, collaborating, and delivering at all levels in the organization including the C-level
• A developer of talent who utilizes your coaching skills to bring out the best in your team
• Fosters a psychologically safe team environment and models candid, respectful communication and feedback
• Able to lead teams through change with clarity, empathy, and operational excellence in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including at least 3 years in a recruiting leadership role.
• Proven ability to both lead a team and manage a personal requisition load.
• Strong track record in building scalable recruiting operations, strategies and pipelines.
• Mastery of applicant tracking systems and sourcing tools (e.g., Greenhouse, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter).
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing, and communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal, presentation and negotiating skills to quickly establish rapport and credibility at all levels within an organization, including the C-level
• Proven ability to develop a talent strategy and utilize data to inform the strategy and to scale a workforce.

As a departmental leader

• Will be a BUILDER and will come with the expertise to build systems and processes that are custom to the needs and culture of HNY
• Will need to be an influential strategist in order to drive efficiencies and improvements that span across departments at HNY
• Experience creating, maintaining, and presenting recruiting performance metrics across all levels of an organization
• Ability to work well individually and within a cross functional and diverse team
• Base Salary based on level of experience

$185,000 - $205,000 USD

What You'll Get When You Join The Hive

• A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
• It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience
• Time to recharge - Unlimited PTO and paid sabbatical
• A remote-first mindset and culture (really!)
• Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
• Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional coverage available for dependents
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
• Annual development allowance
• And much more...

Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time. Additionally, in compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work.

Phishing And Recruitment Scam Warning

• All communications will come from an @honeycomb.io email address
• We occasionally work with external recruiting agencies. These partners will use legitimate business email addresses—never personal accounts like Gmail or Yahoo.
• Our recruiting process will never ask you to provide financial or sensitive personal information, including but not limited to:
• Social security or tax identification numbers
• Credit card numbers
• Bank account information
• Diversity & Accommodations

We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace—where people of all backgrounds, identities, experiences, and abilities are welcomed, valued, and supported. We recognize that there is no single path to success and embrace nontraditional career journeys and diverse perspectives as key to building stronger, more innovative teams.

We strive to ensure an inclusive experience throughout every stage of our hiring process and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations as needed. If you require accommodations or accessible formats at any point during our hiring process, please let your recruiter know.

As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work. If there’s anything we can do to improve your experience, we’re always open to feedback.

Privacy Notice

If you apply for a job at Honeycomb and your application is unsuccessful (or you withdraw from the process or decline our offer), Honeycomb will retain your information after your application for a period of time in accordance with local laws. We retain this information for various reasons, including in case we face a legal challenge in respect of a recruitment decision, to consider you for other current or future jobs at Honeycomb, and to help us better understand, analyze and improve our recruitment processes.

For more information regarding our privacy practices please see the Honeycomb Privacy Notice.

If you do not want us to retain your information for consideration for other roles, or want us to update it, please contact [e-mail]. Please note, however, that we may retain some information if required by law or as necessary to protect ourselves from legal claims.

Location

United States (Remote)