Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Openkrill; United States; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Founders Pledge is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner to own hiring across the organisation, often managing up to 15 roles at once across the US, UK and Germany. Most roles are permanent, with seasonal and contract hires, reporting to our People Director in a small, collaborative team.

From day one you’ll design hiring processes, headhunt top talent, craft tailored assessments, and partner with managers to deliver an exceptional candidate experience while building our employer brand and

Qualifications

• In-house recruitment experience in a fast-paced start-up or scale-up.
• End-to-end recruitment from role requirements to offers.
• Coaching mindset to support hiring managers under pressure.
• Excellent judgement and EQ for stakeholder management.
• High personal standards for candidate experience and results.
• Autonomy and drive to source creatively and work independently.
• Experience using ATS and recruitment tools to automate processes.
• Ability to design role-specific assessments.

Responsibilities

• Own the full hiring lifecycle for a high-volume backlog across multiple regions.
• Coach and support hiring managers to make timely, informed decisions.
• Headhunt proactively to build a strong passive talent pool.
• Design tailored assessments and interview processes for each role.
• Build and steward the employer brand to showcase life at Founders Pledge.
• Develop long-term talent pipelines through professional networks.
• Drive reporting and continuous improvement of hiring processes.
• Embed AI and ATS automation into hiring workflows.
• Support onboarding improvements with the People team.

Skills

In-house recruitment

End-to-end recruitment

Coaching mindset

Judgement & EQ

High standards

Autonomy & drive

AI enablement

Sourcing strategy

Tools

ATS

Job description

About UsAt Founders Pledge, our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to do immense good with their charitable giving. Since launching in 2015, our community of over 2,300 members has pledged nearly $13.6B and donated $1.9B+ to the charitable sector in 45+ countries.We provide end-to-end giving infrastructure, pioneering research, and access to a global network of experts. In other words, we help tech leaders become strategic philanthropists. Our members include founders and leaders behind companies such as Airbnb, UiPath, Dropbox, Skype, Spotify, and Uber.We focus on deploying capital where it can achieve the greatest impact, guided by evidence, careful analysis, and long-term thinking.Salary: $90,000 - $100,000About the RoleAt Founders Pledge, our people are our biggest asset, and we're looking for a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner to help us keep growing sustainably. This is a standalone role with real scope: you'll lead hiring across the organisation - Operations, Research, Member Experience, and beyond - often managing up to 15 roles at once across the UK, US, and Germany. The majority of our roles are permanent, but you’ll also manage seasonal, and contract hires. You'll report to our People Director and join a team of five spread across the UK and US.From day one, you'll have real ownership over how we hire: closing out 12+ live roles before the end of the year, and helping build an employer brand that gives candidates a genuine sense of what it's like to work here.

What You’ll Do

• - Own the full hiring lifecycle - From role launch to offer, you’ll independently manage a high-volume of concurrent hiring processes, while delivering an excellent candidate experience at every stage.
• - Coach and support hiring managers - Act as a trusted partner to hiring managers and interviewers, helping them make confident, well-informed hiring decisions.
• - Headhunt and source proactively - Go beyond inbound applications to actively headhunt candidates, building a strong passive talent pool and long-term pipelines for key functions.
• - Design tailored assessments and interview processes - Create role-specific assessment materials and interview processes that genuinely evaluate candidates against what success looks like in the role.
• - Build and steward our employer brand - Partner with our Comms team to make sure candidates get a real, compelling insight into life at Founders Pledge.
• - Build relationships across the effective giving ecosystem - Attend events and join professional groups to build long-term talent pools, and cultivate a network that generates active referrals.
• - Drive reporting and continuous improvement - You’ll set up and maintain ongoing hiring reporting, using data to build continuous improvement in our processes and candidate experience.
• - AI enablement - Continue to embed AI and ATS automation into our hiring process.
• - Support wider people initiatives - Occasionally partner with our Head of Organisational Development on projects like onboarding improvements.

What We’re Looking For

We're looking for someone driven by securing exceptional talent and building teams, not just running a process. You'll bring real hustle to headhunting, a sharp eye for employer branding, and the judgement to design hiring processes tailored to each role - all while maintaining pace without ever sacrificing quality.You'll have:

• - In-house recruitment experience - You've built your career hiring in-house in a fast-paced start-up or scale-up environment, whether as part of a small team or in a standalone role.
• - End-to-end recruitment expertise - From advising hiring managers on role requirements through to making and negotiating offers, you've owned the full hiring lifecycle.
• - A coaching mindset - You know how to support and guide hiring managers to make good, timely decisions, even under pressure.
• - Excellent judgement and EQ - You navigate competing stakeholder demands and candidate needs with composure, extracting signal from ambiguity and delivering customer-service-level professionalism throughout.
• - High personal standards - You hold yourself to a high bar and are relentless about candidate experience, responsiveness and results.
• - Autonomy and drive - You're comfortable working independently, bringing structure and creativity to how you approach sourcing and hiring.

Nice to haves:

• - Ecosystem experience (a strong nice-to-have) - Experience hiring into research or advisory roles within the effective giving ecosystem.
• - Experience in a mission-driven environment.

Location and Travel Requirements

This role is based in the US. We have offices in New York and San Francisco, and we're open to hybrid or fully remote candidates. Given the scope of the role, you'll work closely with colleagues and hiring managers in the US, as well as in the UK and Germany.You may be asked to travel to industry conferences as well as join a People Team offsite once per year. We also bring our global team together in the UK each spring for our annual global offsite.

Application Deadline

Applications will be accepted until EOD 30th September 2026 and will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Why Work With Us?

You can find more about the benefits we offer here, but what makes us truly special is both our mission and our people.

We’re a diverse team, from both charitable and commercial backgrounds, who believe that amazing things can happen when we tackle problems together.

We offer a flat structure and an opportunity to help shape the future of philanthropy.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Founders Pledge. We seek people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share our drive to understand and solve complex social challenges.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Finding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems requires different perspectives and unique ways of thinking, and we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone can do their best work.