Senior Talent Partner - Tech

Wordsmith AI Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams, and we are growing fast. You'll own R&D hiring from intake to signed offer: Product Engineers, Applied AI and LLM Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers and Designers.

You'll partner with engineering and product leaders to define what great looks like at each level, run technical processes that candidates respect, and close people who have offers from AI labs and big tech. This is not a coordination role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting at product-led tech companies.
• Experience hiring software engineers (3+ hires per quarter).
• Able to discuss stacks, levels and system design with engineers.
• Proven track record with measurable outcomes (hires, offers, performance).
• Experience sourcing engineers directly via GitHub and communities.
• Fluent with AI in recruiting workflows.

Responsibilities

• Deliver bar-raising R&D hires each quarter.
• Own a fair and fast recruiting process optimized to hire the best talent.
• Source engineers directly via GitHub, research communities, alumni networks.
• Run fast technical loops: tight take-homes, calibrated interviewers, fast debriefs.
• Own the candidate journey from first message to day one, with competitive offers.
• Report on your funnel weekly and fix based on data.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Tech recruiting

Interviewing & assessment

Ashby ATS

AI in recruiting workflow

Sourcing engineers directly

Tools

Ashby ATS

Job description

Wordsmith

Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams, and we are growing fast.

We believe in-house legal is becoming one of the most important functions in the AI era. Every business is moving faster, but legal work is still too often scattered across inboxes, chats, documents, and disconnected systems.

Wordsmith brings that work into one system. Requests come in from across the business, AI agents handle the routine, lawyers stay in control where judgment matters, and every step is captured as work happens.

We are built for in-house legal, not law firms. Our goal is to help legal teams move faster, reduce unnecessary external counsel spend, and become a function the business can run with.

The Role

Our product is only as good as the people who build it. You'll own R&D hiring from intake to signed offer: Product Engineers, Applied AI and LLM Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers and Designers. You'll partner with engineering and product leaders to define what great looks like at each level, run technical processes that candidates respect, and close people who have offers from AI labs and big tech. This is not a coordination role.

What You'll Do

• Deliver bar-raising R&D hires each quarter

• Own a robust, fair and fast recruiting process that is optimized to hire the best talent vs the best interviewers

• Source engineers directly: GitHub, research communities, alumni networks and competitor teams, with AI-personalised outreach

• Run technical loops that move fast: tight take-homes, calibrated interviewers, debriefs within 24 hours

• Own the candidate from first message to first day, and close against higher cash with equity, scope and the problem

• Report on your funnel every week and fix what the data shows

What We're Looking For

Essential

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting, with at least 3 hiring software engineers at product-led tech companies

• Comfortable discussing stacks, levels and system design with engineers, and spotting weak signal

• A track record you can put numbers on: hires per quarter, offer acceptance, how your hires performed

• Most of your recent hires sourced by you, not from inbound

• Fluency with Ashby or a similar ATS, and real use of AI in your own workflow

Valued

• Hired AI, ML or LLM engineers

• Hired product managers and designers alongside engineering

• Relocated engineers into the UK, including visa sponsorship