Talent Acquisition Manager - UK

Salience Labs; Abingdon; Presencial; GBP 50.000 - 70.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

Salience Labs in the United Kingdom is seeking a hands-on Talent Acquisition Manager to own end-to-end recruiting in an early-stage environment. You’ll headhunt for UK and European roles, report to the Head of Talent, and collaborate with hiring managers to move quickly from intake to offer.

The role requires 3–5 years of recruitment experience, agency background, and a track record of filling hard-to-find technical roles.

Qualificações

• Three to five years of recruitment experience with direct sourcing and closing hires.
• Agency experience and a track record of outbound recruitment at pace.
• Experience in early-stage tech startups with fast hiring cycles.

Responsabilidades

• Run full-cycle recruiting from intake to offer with limited support.
• Manage hiring across multiple functions and prioritize as needed.
• Build outbound pipelines using research, networks and market mapping.
• Collaborate with hiring managers to define role requirements.
• Sell Salience to candidates and provide regular pipeline updates.
• Coordinate with US talent team on regional recruitment approaches.
• Track time-to-hire and conversion metrics; iterate processes.

Conhecimentos

Talent acquisition

Sourcing

Closing hires

Outbound/Head hunting

Stakeholder management

Descrição da vaga

About Us

Salience Labs is building an industry-defining approach to optical circuit switching for AI infrastructure, engineered for real latency reduction and cost savings at hyperscale. We’re moving from proven technology to real world deployment at scale, and joining at this stage means genuine ownership over that next chapter, working alongside a small, highly technical team on one of the most consequential problems in AI infrastructure today.

About Us

Salience Labs is building an industry-defining approach to optical circuit switching for AI infrastructure, engineered for real latency reduction and cost savings at hyperscale. We’re moving from proven technology to real world deployment at scale, and joining at this stage means genuine ownership over that next chapter, working alongside a small, highly technical team on one of the most consequential problems in AI infrastructure today.

The Role

This is a hands-on, delivery-focused recruiter role. As Talent Acquisition Manager in the UK, you will run recruiting end to end in an early-stage environment. The work is broad and the pace is high. You will go directly into the market to headhunt the best possible candidates for each role opened.

You will report to the Head of Talent and work closely with hiring managers to fill roles based in the UK and Europe.

Responsibilities

• Run full-cycle recruiting, from intake and sourcing to closing and offer, with limited dedicated support
• Manage hiring across multiple functions at once, prioritising as needed
• Build outbound pipeline for hard-to-find talent using research, networks and market mapping as well as LinkedIn
• Work with hiring managers to define role requirements
• Sell Salience to candidates with better-known options
• Give hiring managers regular pipeline updates and fast turnaround on feedback and decisions
• Align with the US talent team on a shared approach across regions
• Track time to hire, outbound response and conversion, and act on the results
• Contribute to tools and processes as the team grows

What We’re Looking For

• 3 to 5 years of recruitment experience, personally sourcing and closing hires
• Agency experience, with a record of working at pace and delivering on outbound
• Early-stage technical start-up experience, moving fast on hard-to-fill roles through headhunting
• Range across technical, commercial and operational hiring, with the ability to get up to speed quickly
• Bias to speed, with a clear view of your own time to hire
• Strong attention to detail across candidate communication, scheduling and offers
• Strong outbound sourcing, with examples of reaching candidates who were not looking
• Comfort working with demanding stakeholders and tight deadlines
• Curiosity and quick learning in unfamiliar technical areas
• Flexibility across UK and US time zones
• Comfort using AI tools to work faster
• A team-first attitude, with no job too small
• Deep-tech, semiconductor, hardware or photonics experience is a plus

Salience Labs Limited is a leader in photonic solutions targeting connectivity for AI datacenter infrastructure. Backed by over a decade of research from the University of Oxford in the UK and the University of Münster in Germany, Salience’s innovative developments in photonic switching technology enable high-speed, ultra-low latency networking fabrics that remove infrastructure bottlenecks for AI workloads.