Technical Recruiter

Referrals Only; Cardiff, Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

£1,000 learning budget

MacBook provided

Remote-friendly working across the UK

Job summary

Monzo is seeking a dedicated Talent Acquisition professional to own hiring across our tech teams. You’ll build pipelines through proactive sourcing, referrals and applications, shaping a fast, fair candidate experience from first conversation to offer.

You'll partner with hiring managers to structure processes, use data to drive improvements, and push for inclusive hiring across the UK while delivering a smooth, engaging candidate journey.

Qualifications

• Experience recruiting for fast-paced, product-focused tech companies.
• Strong commitment to diversity and inclusion.
• Excellent sourcing skills and resourcefulness.
• Empathetic, adaptable and respectful of candidates' needs.
• Able to work with stakeholders with different needs.
• Curious about new technologies.
• Able to assess candidates based on skills rather than titles.
• Experience in-house at a startup or scale-up.
• Experience recruiting for engineering OR design roles.

Responsibilities

• Own hiring across a range of technical roles.
• Build strong pipelines through proactive sourcing and referrals.
• Create a brilliant candidate experience from first convo to offer.
• Collaborate with hiring managers to structure and run hiring processes.
• Use data to improve hiring processes.
• Champion diversity and inclusive hiring.

Skills

Tech recruitment

Sourcing & referrals

Diversity & Inclusion

Candidate experience

Stakeholder management

Adaptability

Curiosity about tech

In-house startup/scale-up recruiting

Engineering or Design recruitment

Job description

This position is a 12 month fixed term contract.

Delivering top talent across our Tech teams

You’ll own hiring across a range of technical roles, building strong pipelines and finding exceptional candidates through proactive sourcing, referrals and applications. You’ll balance pace with quality, create a brilliant candidate experience from first conversation through to offer, and use your market knowledge and influencing skills to convince great people to join us.

Working with Hiring Managers to structure and run great hiring processes

Our hiring managers will need your help to identify what skills they’re looking for and how best to assess these. You’ll challenge their thinking and ask the right questions to figure this out. You’ll work on hiring processes from beginning to end, and convince candidates to join us.

You’ll care deeply about diversity and inclusiveness, and giving candidates an amazing experience

We want to go the extra mile to make sure that every applicant to every job feels valued, respected and never wavers in their support for Monzo, whatever the outcome of their application. You’ll find the right candidates from a range of backgrounds and have ideas about how to make sure they feel welcome at Monzo. And once we’ve decided we want to hire someone, you’ll move mountains in the background to make it an effortless, pleasant process and keep that excitement burning.

You’ll be passionate about making processes work better

We constantly refine our hiring processes to make them simpler and more effective. You’ll use data to work out what’s going well and where things could be better.

• You have experience recruiting for fast-paced, product-focused tech companies
• You care deeply about inclusiveness and diversity
• You love sourcing and pride yourself on your resourcefulness
• You’re empathetic, adaptable and respectful of candidates’ needs and priorities
• You can adapt your approach to work with a range of stakeholders with different needs
• You’re curious about new technologies
• You can tell whether somebody has the skills we’re looking for, without relying on previous job titles or qualifications
• You've experience recruiting in-house at a startup or scale-up
• You have experience in recruiting for engineering OR design roles

What’s in it for you

This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London)

We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.

£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.

The application journey has 2 key steps

• Call with a recruiter
• 3 Loop Stage interviews
  • Projects and Processes
  • Hiring & Candidates
  • Behavioural Interview

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