Talent Partner, Strategic Account Management

Dex; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Uncapped commission

Equity

Healthcare & dental

Fertility benefits

Wellness benefits

Claude tokens

Socials & offsites

MacBook Pro

Tools & support

Job summary

Dex is hiring a Talent Partner in the UK to manage end-to-end client relationships, from brief to delivery, ensuring a seamless hiring experience. You will challenge role briefs, maintain momentum, and deliver strong market insights to support hiring decisions.

You will use the Dex platform daily, aligning with product teams and talent leaders to optimize outcomes. A passionate recruiter with 2+ years of experience and a drive to build exceptional teams will thrive.

Qualifications

• Highly organised, compelling, smart and driven.
• Commercially sharp; comfortable challenging senior people.
• Credible with technical hiring managers; understand software engineering basics.
• Excellent command of talent metrics and funnel analytics.
• 2+ years in recruitment (agency or internal) or equivalent proven impact.
• Motivated to build an exceptional team solving a meaningful problem.
• Open to varied backgrounds and eager to contribute.

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of client relationships end to end: briefing, delivery, feedback, and follow-up.
• Assess role briefs; interrogate requirements; advise clients if a role should be split or not hired.
• Manage client-side process: keep feedback fast, interviews moving, momentum maintained.
• Analyse Dex pipelines with conviction; manage expectations to improve offers results.
• Negotiate offers with clients to land candidates without friction.
• Grow accounts by turning searches into ongoing relationships and more roles.
• Be the client's go-to; provide market insights, pipeline reporting, candid candidate reads.

Skills

Organised

Commercially sharp

Stakeholder management

Talent metrics

Recruitment experience

Drive to build team

Effective communication

Job description

Our Mission
Human time and effort is the rarest thing in the universe. The fact that so many people hate what they do for work is a disaster on so many levels. How many people live quiet lives of misery? How many generational talents do we miss due to circumstance?

Dex’s mission is to close the gap between Talent & Opportunity, we believe that work, and being productive, is part of the human condition, that regardless of AI, human passion, ingenuity and a desire to do things means that work will always exist.

We are building Dex to create a future where technology helps every individual to understand their strengths, interests and unique abilities, and to connect with opportunities where they can thrive, because more people doing things they love leads to a better, happier and more productive world.
We are starting by connecting the world's most ambitious software engineers with the companies that deserve them.

About the Role

The AI Startups and scaleups we work with have roles they can't fill. Not because they haven't tried, but because they have world-class hiring bars, and it’s genuinely tough.

As a Talent Partner looking after our clients, you own those relationships. You take a role briefing properly, you push back when it doesn't add up, and you become the person a founder, internal talent partner or hiring manager calls before they've even decided to hire. You will also own delivery: ensuring that our clients receive an amazing experience using Dex.

You’ll also be a power user of our product. We use Dex on our own hiring every day, and the feedback loop between you and the people building it should be strong.

In this role you will:

• Own a portfolio of client relationships end to end; brief, delivery, feedback, and everything after
• Take role briefs / kick-offs that actually hold up. Scope the role, interrogate the requirements, and tell a client when the role is really two roles, or shouldn't be hired at all
• Run the process on the client side: keep feedback fast, keep interviews moving, keep momentum from breaking
• Analyse their Dex pipelines with conviction and manage expectations so offers land
• Negotiate offers with the client. Get people over the line without either side feeling managed
• Grow accounts. Turn a single search into a relationship; more roles, more trust, more of the hiring plan
• Be the client's most useful call of the week; delivering market insights, clear pipeline reporting, honest candidate reads, and effective advice

About you

• You are highly organised, compelling, smart, and driven.
• You're commercially sharp and comfortable holding your ground with senior people. You'd rather have the awkward conversation early than the expensive one late. You tell great stories, and you know how to engage with a wide variety of different people - such as a first-time founder, a Head of Engineering, or a VP of Talent.
• You're credible with technical hiring managers and you understand how to be an effective partner to your stakeholders. You know enough about software engineering to be taken seriously, and you're honest about what you don't know.
• You have an excellent command of talent metrics. You know what good looks like at each stage of a funnel, and you use those numbers to diagnose and address a stalling process. You can walk a client through their own data, show them where they're losing people and why.
• We're open on backgrounds. Most people who do this well have 2+ years in recruitment (agency or internal) but if you've got the raw ingredients and the drive we want to talk to you. We want people who have excelled in their current and previous roles.
• We are looking for someone that is incredibly motivated to build an exceptional team, solving a problem that truly matters.
• Note: We know that talent can't be summed up in a few bullet points. Even if you don't match everything we've mentioned, we don't want that to be a barrier. If you're excited about what we're building, we want to hear from you.

Why this is a great opportunity

Dex represents an opportunity to join a well funded, cash generative business that works with some of the most interesting people and companies in the world.

You’ll be building relationships with some of the best AI startups and scaleups on the planet, and helping them hire the roles they care most about.

We’re growing fast and are set to more than double in headcount between the UK and US over the next 12 months. This is a team that deeply understands hiring, how difficult and how important it is; you’ll have experienced talent leaders around you day to day, and a product team building tools for you specifically.

What we offer

• Above market base salary plus uncapped commission; we’re building a world class team and believe pay should match that ambition
• Significant equity - we want this to be the last job you ’have’ to take
• Full private healthcare & dental - because life happens and we want to support you
• Fertility benefits & enhanced parental support
• Gym membership & wellness benefits
• Claude tokens - lots and lots of Claude tokens
• Regular socials, offsites and an annual trip
• MacBook Pro + team kit
• "Whatever you need" approach to tools and support

The process

Our hiring process is designed to be transparent and respectful of your time. Here’s what you can expect:

• Hiring Manager Interview: Richard, who heads up Talent Operations at Dex (30-45m)
• Short Take Home Exercise
• In person interview
  • Task Review (60m)
  • Culture Fit & Values (45m)
  • Final Interview with Paddy, CEO and Founder at Dex (30m)