Talent Acquisition Lead – Technology

REC2 Recruitment Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health cover

Pension contribution

Equity opportunity

Visa sponsorship

Hybrid work model

Job summary

REC2 Recruitment Ltd partners with a high-growth London healthtech company to hire a Talent Acquisition Lead or Internal Recruiter. This hands-on, target-driven role focuses on sourcing, engaging and closing exceptional candidates across software engineering, product, clinical and operations in a fast-paced startup environment.

You will own the recruitment lifecycle, partner with founders and managers, and scale a scalable function to support ongoing UK and international growth.

Qualifications

• Hands-on, target-driven technology recruitment experience essential.
• Experience recruiting software engineers and technology roles.
• Ability to manage multiple recruitment processes concurrently.
• Strong sourcing, assessment and candidate engagement skills.
• Experience working with senior hiring managers and founders.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle from market mapping to onboarding.
• Source and engage high-quality candidates, including passive talent.
• Support expansion of software engineering and related teams.
• Build and develop UK and international talent pipelines.
• Collaborate with founders and hiring managers to define requirements and improve processes.
• Utilize data and scorecards to drive hiring decisions and reporting.

Skills

Direct sourcing

Headhunting

Candidate engagement

Agency-to-internal

Tools

ATS management

Job description

REC2 Recruitment is partnering with a high-growth London healthtech company seeking an experiencedTalent Acquisition Lead or Internal Recruiterto take ownership of its recruitment function.

This is not an HR, People Operations or employee relations role.It is a hands-on, target-driven recruitment position focused on sourcing, engaging and closing exceptional candidates. The role is structured and rewarded in a similar way to sales, with substantial performance-related earnings based on successful hires.

This is a permanent, long-term appointment at the heart of the company’s growth strategy. The initial priority will be to manage a live pipeline of software engineering and operational vacancies while supporting plans to grow its 15-person Software Engineering team during the company’s next phase of growth.

The company’s engineers work across a modern technology environment that includes TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Node.js and AWS.

Beyond the immediate hiring programme, you will recruit across software engineering, product, clinical, customer operations and commercial functions, while building and continually developing a scalable talent function capable of supporting the company’s ongoing UK and international growth.

This is a hands-on position for someone who can identify and engage exceptional candidates, manage multiple recruitment processes and thrive within a high-performance technology start-up environment.

The Role

You will manage the complete recruitment lifecycle, from market mapping and direct sourcing through to interview management, offer negotiation and onboarding.

Responsibilities will include:

• Managing a varied pipeline of software engineering, product, clinical, customer operations and commercial vacancies.
• Supporting the continued expansion of the Software Engineering team.
• Directly sourcing and approaching high-quality passive candidates.
• Developing talent pipelines across the UK and potentially the US.
• Working closely with founders and hiring managers to define recruitment requirements.
• Managing candidate progression and maintaining momentum throughout the interview process.
• Improving the company’s ATS, interview stages, scorecards and recruitment reporting.
• Using recruitment data to evaluate sourcing channels and hiring performance.
• Developing employee referral and external talent-partner networks.
• Supporting hackathons, meetups and other events designed to attract exceptional software engineering talent.
• Strengthening the company’s employer brand and candidate experience.
• Building a scalable recruitment function capable of supporting long-term growth.

Ideal Background

A proven track record in hands-on, target-driven technology recruitment is essential. The ideal candidate will have started within an agency before progressing into an internal talent role with a technology start-up or scale-up. High-performing agency technology recruiters ready to make their first move in-house will also be considered.

This is not suitable for candidates whose experience is primarily within general HR, employee relations, learning and development or People Operations.

Applications are also welcomed from high-performing agency technology recruiters who can demonstrate the ability to move into a broad internal recruitment position.

You should have:

• Experience recruiting full-stack software engineers, ideally across TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Node.js and AWS environments.
• Strong direct sourcing, headhunting and candidate-engagement skills.
• The ability to manage several recruitment processes simultaneously.
• Experience working closely with senior hiring managers, founders or business leaders.
• A good understanding of structured interviews, scorecards and recruitment analytics.
• The confidence to operate independently and take ownership of hiring outcomes.
• A collaborative, team-focused approach.
• Resilience, commercial awareness and the ability to respond positively to constructive feedback.

The company has an ambitious, energetic and highly collaborative team. This opportunity will suit someone who enjoys a fast-moving start-up environment, works well alongside technically minded colleagues and is comfortable with direct feedback, high expectations and significant personal accountability.

This is unlikely to suit someone seeking a conventional nine-to-five role. In return, it offers considerable responsibility, autonomy and earning potential to someone motivated by ambitious hiring targets.

Salary and Benefits

• £70,000–£90,000 basic salary.
• Performance-related bonus offering potential total earnings of approximately £140,000–£180,000.
• Meaningful company equity.
• 25 days’ annual leave plus UK public holidays.
• Private medical, dental, vision and mental-health cover.
• Employer pension contribution.
• £1,000 annual learning and development budget.
• Wellness contribution.
• Enhanced parental leave.
• High-spec MacBook and home-office equipment.
• Co-working allowance where applicable.
• Regular company offsites and regional events.
• UK visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates.

The company operates a hybrid working model, with employees expected to spend at least two days each week at its modern Farringdon office.

This vacancy is for a permanent, full-time role based in the UK. Applicants must have independent legal authorisation to live and work in the UK.