Senior Technical Talent Acquisition Partner

ActAI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ActAI is seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to independently own difficult technical searches and hire exceptional engineering and AI talent globally. You will source across AI/ML, backend, frontend, mobile, infrastructure, and leadership roles, building talent maps and strategies to reach passive candidates.

You will partner with engineering leaders to calibrate hiring bars, refine target profiles, and improve interview processes while managing compensation discussions and complex offers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of recruiting experience, with substantial experience hiring software engineers and other technical talent.
• Strong track record of independently delivering difficult technical hires through proactive headhunting.
• Ability to evaluate technical profiles beyond title and keywords.
• Strong sourcing capability across LinkedIn and relevant platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own technical searches end-to-end across AI/ML, backend, frontend, mobile, infrastructure and engineering leadership.
• Build talent maps and sourcing strategies for difficult searches across AI startups, technology companies, research organisations and technical communities.
• Headhunt high-quality passive candidates rather than relying on inbound applications.
• Assess technical profiles to understand what candidates built and their contributions.
• Partner with engineering leaders to calibrate hiring bars and refine target profiles.
• Close senior candidates through compensation discussions and offers.
• Use data and market feedback to improve search strategies and conversion.

Skills

Recruiting experience

Tech hiring

LinkedIn sourcing

Candidate negotiation

Advising hiring managers

Ownership & execution

Technical evaluation

Tools

LinkedIn

Talent networks

Job description

There are over 5 billion users using basic applications today such email, notes, tasks, calendar and they're not AI-native. Our mission is to build proactive applications for anyone in the world, who are not used to complex prompting. We aim to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organising and workflows, with minimal to no prompting.

Our product focuses on achieving high reliability for long-running workflows, persistent context, and real-world task completion. We believe products will greatly reduce hallucinations.

Our objective is to organise anyone's life, allowing us all to spend time on valuable and meaningful things.

About the Role

As a Senior Technical Recruiter, you will independently own difficult technical searches and hire exceptional engineering and AI talent for ActAI globally.

What You Will Be Doing

• Own technical searches end-to-end across AI/ML, backend, frontend, mobile, infrastructure and engineering leadership.
• Build talent maps and sourcing strategies for difficult searches across leading AI startups, technology companies, research organisations and technical communities.
• Personally identify and headhunt high-quality passive candidates rather than depending on inbound applications.
• Assess technical profiles deeply enough to understand what candidates actually built, their individual contribution and relevance to ActAI.
• Partner directly with engineering leaders to calibrate hiring bars, refine target profiles and improve interview processes.
• Manage and close senior candidates through compensation discussions, competing offers and other complex situations.
• Use recruiting data and market feedback to identify pipeline problems and continuously improve search strategy and conversion.

What You Will Need

• 5+ years of recruiting experience, with substantial experience hiring software engineers and other technical talent.
• Strong track record of independently delivering difficult technical hires through proactive headhunting.
• Good understanding of software engineering disciplines and the ability to evaluate technical profiles beyond company, title and keywords.
• Strong sourcing capability across LinkedIn and other relevant platforms, communities and networks.
• Ability to advise hiring managers using evidence from the talent market rather than simply executing requests.
• Strong candidate management, negotiation and closing skills.
• High ownership, judgement and execution speed.

Nice to Have

• Experience recruiting AI/ML engineers, researchers, distributed systems engineers or senior technical leaders.
• Experience hiring internationally across multiple technical talent markets.
• Experience recruiting for an early-stage AI or technology company.