Senior Talent Partner, CS & Tech (London)

Light; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

25 days annual leave

Off-sites twice a year

Job summary

Light is seeking a Senior Talent Partner to lead hiring for Customer Success and Tech in London. You’ll own end-to-end searches, shaping roles with leadership teams and building robust pipelines across Europe.

The role combines strategic workforce planning with hands-on sourcing, underpinned by AI-powered processes and a strong emphasis on maintaining a high hiring bar. You’ll partner with engineers, product and design leaders to recruit senior and hard-to-fill roles, with relocation and visa

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Talent Acquisition, in-house or embedded/recruiting services, with senior and leadership hires.
• Deep knowledge of London and European markets for engineering and CS talent.
• Proven ability to source proactively and build talent pipelines.
• Experience using AI to improve recruiting workflows is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own Customer Success hiring end to end, from managers to technical customer engineers and leadership
• Own Product, Engineering and Design searches, including senior and hard-to-fill technical roles
• Shape roles and briefs with stakeholders and build scorecards to keep the bar high
• Diagnose why a search stalls (brief, comp, location, market) and fix it
• Map markets and build talent pools so pipelines exist before roles open
• Bring great people to London from Europe and beyond, with visa sponsorship and relocation support

Skills

Talent Acquisition

London market knowledge

Fast-paced hiring

AI in recruiting

Tools

Claude

Codex

Lovable

Noon

Ashby

Job description

Light is seeking a Senior Talent Partner to lead hiring for Customer Success and Tech in London. You’ll own end-to-end searches, shaping roles with leadership teams and building robust pipelines across Europe.

The role combines strategic workforce planning with hands-on sourcing, underpinned by AI-powered processes and a strong emphasis on maintaining a high hiring bar. You’ll partner with engineers, product and design leaders to recruit senior and hard-to-fill roles, with relocation and visa