Tech Talent Partner for AI Startups

Dex; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Uncapped commission

Equity

Private healthcare

Fertility benefits

Gym wellness

Claude tokens

Social events and trips

MacBook Pro + team kit

Tools and support

Job summary

Dex is building a future where technology helps individuals understand their strengths and connect with opportunities. The Talent Partner will own client relationships end to end, shaping briefs, and delivering a seamless recruitment experience from brief to signed offer.

You’ll work with product and engineering to improve hiring tools built for you, raising issues and guiding improvements. You will partner with leading AI startups and scaleups, benefiting from experienced talent leadership and

Qualifications

• 2+ years in tech or engineering recruitment, in-house at a startup/scaleup or at a specialist tech agency.
• Experience hiring roles like backend, infra, ML/AI engineers, researchers or founding engineers, and the ability to hold a credible conversation with a CTO about what a role truly needs.
• Strong command of funnel metrics and conversion at each stage; know what to do when it isn’t happening.
• Commercial sharpness and the confidence to push back on senior people early, rather than delaying the difficult conversations.
• Curiosity about AI tooling; you’ll be a daily power user of a product built around you.

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of client relationships end to end: brief, delivery, feedback, and everything after.
• Take role briefs and kick-offs that actually hold up; scope the role, interrogate requirements, and tell a client when it’s two roles or not to hire at all.
• Run the process on the client side: keep feedback fast, keep interviews moving, and maintain momentum.
• Use funnel data to diagnose stalled roles and guide clients on where they’re losing people and why.
• Negotiate and close offers so neither side feels pushed.
• Grow accounts from one search into the full hiring plan.

Skills

Tech recruitment

End-to-end delivery

Stakeholder management

Data-driven

AI tooling curiosity

Job description

Dex is building a future where technology helps individuals understand their strengths and connect with opportunities. The Talent Partner will own client relationships end to end, shaping briefs, and delivering a seamless recruitment experience from brief to signed offer.

You’ll work with product and engineering to improve hiring tools built for you, raising issues and guiding improvements. You will partner with leading AI startups and scaleups, benefiting from experienced talent leadership and