Trainee Recruitment Consultant

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

Job summary

A leading advisory firm in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced technical recruiter to deliver specialized hiring across AI/ML, full stack, and cloud engineering roles. The role demands 4-8+ years of expertise in technical recruiting, with an emphasis on rapidly executing high-complexity hiring. Candidates should possess strong communication skills and familiarity with Ashby ATS. The position guarantees a high-touch candidate experience and collaboration with stakeholders for strategic hiring needs.

Qualifications

• 4-8+ years of technical recruiting experience in relevant fields.
• Ability to discuss model lifecycle, data pipelines, and cloud architecture.
• Experience delivering high-complexity tech hiring quickly.

Responsibilities

• Deliver full-cycle hiring across multiple technical areas.
• Build targeted technical talent pipelines using various platforms.
• Partner with stakeholders for prioritization and forecasting.

Skills

Technical recruiting specialization

AI/ML knowledge

Full stack and backend engineering

Cloud and DevOps expertise

Data engineering and data science

Strong communication capabilities

Tools

Ashby ATS

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 + 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.

Qualifications

• 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.