Technical Recruiter

Unity Advisory; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading advisory firm in the UK seeks a Technical Recruiter for a 4–6 month fixed-term contract. The ideal candidate will accelerate hiring across AI/ML, engineering, data, and cloud roles while managing stakeholder expectations. Responsibilities include building talent pipelines, maintaining recruitment hygiene, and delivering high-complexity tech hiring within short timeframes. Candidates should have 4-8+ years of recruiting experience, particularly in technical roles, and be adept in using Ashby ATS and LinkedIn Recruiter.

Qualifications

• 4-8+ years of technical recruiting experience
• Ability to speak on model lifecycle, data pipelines, and cloud architecture
• Evidence of handling high-complexity tech hiring

Responsibilities

• Deliver full-cycle hiring for technical roles
• Build targeted talent pipelines and maintain recruitment funnel hygiene
• Partner with stakeholders on hiring priorities

Skills

Technical recruiting

AI/ML Engineering

Full Stack Development

Cloud Infrastructure

Data Engineering

Stakeholder management

Tools

Ashby ATS

LinkedIn Recruiter

Microsoft Teams

Job description

Responsibilities

• Deliver full-cycle hiring across: AI/ML Engineering & Applied Science, Full Stack & Backend, Data Engineering, Analytics & Platform, DevOps, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, Product, Architecture & Security.
• Build targeted technical talent pipelines using Ashby ATS & LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, HuggingFace, Stack Overflow, Kaggle, Discord, ArXiv, and modern sourcing automations (e.g., PhantomBuster).
• Execute structured screening aligned to technical competency scorecards.
• Maintain recruitment funnel hygiene and reporting (conversion, time-to-fill).
• Develop outbound campaigns tailored to engineering and AI communities.
• Partner with hiring stakeholders on prioritisation and forecasting.
• Ensure a consistently high‑touch candidate experience and meet SLAs for priority engineering, AI, and data roles.
• Predictive pipeline built for recurring strategic tech profiles.
• Standardised competency‑based interview process embedded with hiring teams.
• Market mapping completed for AI/ML and cloud talent communities.

About the role

We are seeking a Technical Recruiter on a 4–6 month fixed term contract to accelerate hiring across AI/ML, engineering, data and cloud/DevOps. This is a delivery‑led position with strong stakeholder exposure, requiring advanced sourcing, technical fluency and pace.

Requirements

• 4‑8+ years technical recruiting with specialism in AI/ML, Full stack / backend engineering, Cloud / DevOps / platform, Data engineering / data science.
• Strong ability to speak credibly on: Model lifecycle, model ops, inference & deployment; Data pipelines, ETL, warehousing & lakehouse patterns; CI/CD, IaC and cloud architecture.
• Evidence of delivering high‑complexity tech hiring within short timeframes.
• Sourcing capability beyond mainstream channels.

Nice to have

• Experience in scaling advisory, consultancy or PE‑backed environments.
• Familiarity with Ashby ATS and Microsoft Teams workflows.
• Exposure to building technical scorecards and interview loops.

About Unity

This is a pivotal period of growth for Unity, and technical hiring sits at the core of our client delivery and market differentiation. You'll own a mission‑critical hiring portfolio, partner directly with senior leadership, and shape how Unity engages technical talent.