Early Careers Talent Partner

About Cleo

At Cleo, we’re not just building another fintech app. We’re embarking on a mission to fundamentally change humanity’s relationship with money. Imagine a world where everyone, regardless of background or income, has access to a hyper-intelligent financial advisor in their pocket. That’s the future we’re creating. Cleo is a rare success story: a profitable, fast-growing unicorn with over $300 million in ARR and growing over 2x year-over-year. This isn’t just a job; it’s a chance to join a team of brilliant, driven individuals who are passionate about making a real difference.

About The Role

As an Early Years Talent Partner, you’ll own the strategy and delivery of our graduate and early careers hiring. You’ll be responsible for running our graduate schemes across the year, building strong university partnerships, and ensuring we attract, hire, and support exceptional early-career talent. You’ll work closely with hiring managers, the wider Talent team, and the People team to create a seamless experience for candidates while ensuring our graduate programmes deliver real impact for the business. This role combines hands-on recruitment, campus engagement, and programme partnership, giving you the opportunity to shape how we build our future talent pipeline.

What You’ll Do

• Own end-to-end recruitment for graduate schemes, internships, and other early careers programmes across the year.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with universities, careers services, and student societies to create sustainable talent pipelines.
• Represent the company at graduate fairs, campus events, and early careers initiatives.
• Design and deliver best-in-class hiring processes for early talent, ensuring an outstanding candidate experience.
• Proactively source and engage graduate talent through university networks, referrals, and targeted outreach.
• Partner closely with hiring managers to understand team needs and plan early talent hiring cycles.
• Work with the People team to support onboarding, facilitation, and development of graduate cohorts.
• Use data and insights to improve hiring outcomes, attraction strategies, and programme effectiveness.
• Champion inclusive hiring practices and build diverse early talent pipelines.
• Stay close to early careers trends, university engagement strategies, and emerging graduate expectations.
• Hiring graduate cohorts of approximately 10–12 hires per intake, multiple times per year.
• Supporting early careers hiring across Engineering, Analytics, and Machine Learning teams.
• Building structured pipelines from top tier universities aligned to these technical disciplines.
• Partnering with hiring managers and the People team to ensure successful onboarding and cohort integration.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience managing graduate, internship, or early careers recruitment programmes end-to-end.
• Experience building relationships with universities, campus networks, and early careers communities.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner with hiring managers and internal teams.
• Comfortable managing multiple hiring cycles and programmes throughout the year.
• A candidate-first mindset with a passion for delivering exceptional experiences.
• A proactive, creative approach to building early talent pipelines and solving hiring challenges.
• Data-driven and curious, using insights to improve recruitment outcomes.
• Experience working in fast-growing, tech-driven environments is ideal.

What You’ll Get

• A competitive compensation package (£40,000 - £55,000, bonus + equity) with bi-annual reviews.
• Work at one of the fastest-growing tech startups, backed by top VC firms.
• A clear progression plan.
• Flexibility to ensure a healthy work-life balance.
• Work where you work best, with a hybrid approach for those in London.

Other Benefits

• Company-wide performance reviews every 6 months.
• Generous pay increases for high-performing team members.
• Equity top-ups for team members getting promoted.
• 25 days annual leave a year + public holidays (+ an additional day for every year you spend at Cleo, up to 30 days).
• 6% employer-matched pension in the UK.
• Private Medical Insurance via Vitality, dental cover, and life assurance.
• Enhanced parental leave.
• 1 month paid sabbatical after 4 years at Cleo.
• Regular socials and activities, online and in-person.
• Online mental health support via Spill.

Welcoming Everyone

We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.