Talent Acquisition Lead

AiCore; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based bonus

Ownership of talent function

Direct founder exposure

Job summary

AiCore is seeking a Talent Acquisition Lead to own the end-to-end hiring engine for our delivery team, scaling 4–6 hires per month. You’ll source, screen, close and report on the funnel, partnering with management to raise hiring quality while driving rapid growth in AI consultants and AI Transformation Managers.

You’ll work with the founders, own the recruitment playbook, and build a scalable function in a remote-first UK environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-cycle, in-house recruiting with high-volume hiring.
• Experience recruiting both graduates and experienced hires, ideally in consultancy.
• Proven sourcing ability and a busy pipeline management.
• Strong closing skills and ability to win offers against competition.
• Experience designing screens or assessments and calibrating interviewers.
• Data-driven with ability to track conversions and improve processes.
• Highly organised with capacity to manage many candidates at once.
• Comfortable with technical detail to screen AI/tech work.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle hiring for AI consultants and AI Transformation Managers.
• Maintain top of funnel through outreach channels, university links and referrals.
• Conduct first-stage screens and progress candidates to technical interviews.
• Design screening questions and assessments to predict success.
• Sell AiCore to strong candidates and close offers against competing offers.
• Set up and run the applicant tracking system and report funnel metrics.
• Track time-to-fill, conversion, withdrawals; fix issues from data.
• Provide a fast, professional candidate experience reflecting well on AiCore.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

High-volume hiring

Graduate & experienced hiring

Sourcing & pipeline building

Candidate closing

Screening design

Recruiting analytics

Organisational skills

Technical sensing

Ownership mindset

Tools

Applicant Tracking System

Job description

AiCore is the AI transformation partner for enterprises across England. We design and embed AI operating models that turn AI investment into measurable ROI while managing the risk, all funded through the government's levy.

The Role: Talent Acquisition Lead

As AiCore's Talent Acquisition Lead, you'll build and run the hiring engine behind our delivery team. We're making 4–6 hires a month in total, mostly into our delivery team as AI consultants and AI Transformation Managers. You'll own that hiring end to end, from sourcing and screening to closing, while raising the bar with every hire.

You'll work directly with the management team to scale our hiring without compromising on quality.

Who This Is For

You'll likely thrive here if you:

• Enjoy high-volume hiring: booking, screening and closing candidates week after week without letting quality slip.
• Judge yourself by who you hire, not how many: you'd rather leave a seat open than fill it with the wrong person.
• Live in the numbers, and can tell from a funnel where the process is leaking and what to fix.
• Are curious about AI and want to understand the work well enough to spot exceptional consultants.
• Want ownership, direct feedback and real accountability for results.

What We Offer

• A genuinely performance-based culture: up to a 100% performance bonus on top of your base salary, with your bonus and career growth driven by the results you deliver
• Ownership of AiCore's talent function from day one, and the chance to grow it into a team as we scale
• Direct work with the founders on every hiring decision that shapes the company
• A clear, high-volume hiring brief in one of the most in-demand talent markets: AI

What We Expect From You

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle hiring for our AI consultants and AI Transformation Managers, from sourcing to accepted offer.
• Keep the top of the funnel full through outreach, job channels, university links and referrals.
• Run first-stage screens and decide who moves into the technical interview.
• Design screening questions and assessments that predict who will succeed in later interview stages.
• Sell AiCore to strong candidates and close them, including those weighing competing offers.
• Set up and run our applicant tracking system, and report monthly on the funnel.
• Track conversion, time to fill and withdrawals at every stage, and fix what the data shows is broken.
• Give every candidate a fast, professional experience that reflects well on AiCore.

Results (first 12 months)

• 4–6 hires a month by month 6, with at least 3 a month by month 3
• Time to fill of 6 weeks or less for AI consultant roles, and 9 weeks or less for AI Transformation Manager roles, by month 6
• 80% of hires rated above the median of current consultants in the same role at 6 months, and 90% passing probation
• Technical interview pass rate raised from 25% to 40% by month 6
• Around 170 first-stage screens booked a month by month 4
• An applicant tracking system and monthly funnel reporting in place by month 3
• Offer acceptance raised from 75% to 85% by month 9

(Final targets are agreed with you at offer stage.)

Requirements

• 3+ years of full-cycle, in-house recruiting, with a track record of hiring at high volume.
• Experience running both graduate and experienced hiring (consultancy recruiting is ideal).
• Proven sourcing ability: you've kept a busy pipeline full through outreach and channels you built yourself.
• Strong closing skills, including winning candidates who hold competing offers.
• Experience designing screens, work samples or assessments, and calibrating interviewers to score consistently.
• Confident with recruiting data: you track conversion at every stage and use it to fix the process.
• Highly organised, able to run many candidates at once without dropping any.
• Comfortable with technical detail: you don't need to be an AI engineer, but you can understand the work well enough to screen for it.
• Intelligent, hard-working and ownership-minded: you learn fast, put in the effort, and treat results as your own.

Location

• Remote-first (UK-centric business).
• Big Upside: We believe in paying for outcomes. Your bonus is tied directly to the results you deliver, in a package designed to be competitive and performance-rewarding.
• Remote-First + Flexible Autonomy: Remote-first by design: less commuting, more life. We hire adults, trust them, and optimise for ownership, not micromanagement.
• Work Directly With the Management Team (Flat Structure): High exposure, fast learning and real influence on how we build our team.