Technical Recruiter

Dex; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Above-market base

Significant equity

Claude tokens

Private healthcare

Fertility benefits

Gym membership

Socials & offsites

MacBook Pro

Job summary

Dex is recruiting a senior client-facing recruiter to manage top AI, software engineering and quant roles in the UK. You will own relationships end to end, from briefing clients to delivering offers, working with founders and hiring managers to shape roles and timelines.

You will collaborate with a product and engineering team to refine hiring tools, using AI-assisted workflows and data to accelerate placements while maintaining high standards.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in tech, engineering or quant recruitment at a specialist agency or in-house at a startup or scaleup.
• Experience hiring for backend, infrastructure, ML/AI engineers, quant developers, researchers or founding engineers.
• Strong command of funnel metrics and conversion across stages.

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of client relationships end to end: brief, delivery, feedback and everything after.
• Run kick-offs that scope the role and validate requirements with clients.
• Manage the process on the client side to keep feedback fast and interviews moving.
• Use funnel data to diagnose stalled roles and explain losses to clients.
• Negotiate and close offers so both sides feel good about the outcome.
• Grow accounts from one search into the full hiring plan.

Skills

Tech recruitment

Client management

Funnel metrics

Negotiation

AI tooling

Job description

Own relationships with some of the world's best AI and trading companies, and help them make the hires they care about most. Work alongside experienced talent leaders and a product team building tools just for you, with significant equity in an AI talent marketplace backed by a16z, Notion Capital and angels from OpenAI and ElevenLabs.

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.

Why this role is different

You get the clients that matter. The AI startups, scaleups and trading firms we work with have roles they can't fill. That's not for lack of trying: their hiring bars are world-class. You'll own those relationships end to end, from brief to signed offer, and become the person a founder or hiring manager calls before they've even decided to hire.

You learn from the best. You'll work day to day alongside experienced talent leaders who know how hard, and how important, great hiring is.

You shape the product. You'll work directly with our product and engineering teams, who are building tools specifically for you. When a match shouldn't have reached you or a workflow slows you down, you raise it with the people who can fix it, and you see it change. You help decide what gets built, not just use it.

You get to experiment with AI. We're AI-first, and so is our talent team. You'll have Claude tokens galore to build your own tools and workflows, and you'll help work out what great hiring looks like when AI is built into every step.

What you'll do

• Own a portfolio of client relationships end to end: brief, delivery, feedback and everything after
• Run kick-offs that hold up. Scope the role, challenge the requirements, and tell a client when it's really two roles, or shouldn't be hired at all
• Run the process on the client side, keeping feedback fast and interviews moving
• Use funnel data to diagnose stalling roles, and show clients where and why they're losing people
• Negotiate and close offers so that neither side feels managed
• Grow accounts from one search into the whole hiring plan

You'll probably have

• 2+ years in tech, engineering or quant recruitment, at a specialist agency or in-house at a startup or scaleup
• Experience hiring for roles like backend, infrastructure, ML/AI engineers, quant developers, researchers or founding engineers, and the ability to hold a credible conversation with a CTO about what a role really needs
• A strong command of funnel metrics: you know what good conversion looks like at each stage, and what to do when it isn't happening
• Commercial sharpness, and the confidence to push back on senior people early rather than have the expensive conversation late
• Curiosity about AI tooling. You'll be a daily power user of a product that's being built around you

We're open on backgrounds. If you've excelled where you are now, we want to hear from you, even if you don't tick every box

What we offer

We want this to be the last job you have to take.

• Above-market base and uncapped commission. We're building a world-class team, and pay matches that ambition
• Significant equity in a company backed by a16z, Notion Capital and angels from OpenAI and ElevenLabs
• Claude tokens: lots and lots of them
• Full private healthcare and dental
• Fertility benefits and enhanced parental support
• Gym membership and wellness benefits
• Regular socials, offsites and an annual trip
• MacBook Pro and team kit, plus a "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:

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