Head of Talent Acquisition

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board. Are you passionate about solving complex hiring challenges in fast-scaling, high-growth environments? Do you want to work in a values-led organisation? If so, this is the role for you.

As our Talent Acquisition Lead, you'll enable our mission by hiring bar‑raiser teams that bring our vision to life. The impact you will have: You're joining at a critical moment as we scale rapidly – and hiring the right people is key. As our Head of Talent Acquisition, you'll drive the strategy to attract top talent, lead and support a growing team of Talent Partners, and collaborate with leaders to meet hiring goals. This high‑impact role offers direct exposure to the executive team and the chance to shape our culture, talent bar, and future success.

What you will do:

• Lead, manage, and grow a high-performing Talent Acquisition team.
• Partner with senior leaders to understand strategic hiring needs and create effective sourcing and hiring plans to meet them.
• Scale the hiring function across key departments with efficiency and quality of hire as top priorities.
• Design and optimise recruitment processes that ensure consistency, inclusivity, and a stellar candidate experience.
• Implement and maintain recruitment systems (ATS, tools, scorecards) enabling data‑driven hiring decisions.
• Own end‑to‑end hiring for leadership and critical hires, and provide mentorship to team members on complex requisitions.
• Collaborate with Marketing and People teams to elevate the employer brand and improve visibility in the market.
• Report on core hiring metrics and KPIs to track progress and drive performance improvements across the function.
• Own partnerships with external agencies.
• Contribute to workforce planning and headcount forecasting initiatives.

On a day‑to‑day basis, you'll:

• Facilitate team standups and support Talent Partners in delivering on open roles.
• Conduct intake calls with hiring managers, help prioritise roles, and remove blockers.
• Review pipelines, interview processes, and feedback cycles to drive hiring momentum.
• Participate in leadership meetings and present progress, challenges, and hiring roadmaps.
• Run calibration sessions and update interview training material to uphold our Bar Raiser hiring excellence.
• Provide focused coaching to your team and foster a supportive, high‑performance culture.

What you will achieve in the first 6 months:

• Lead the successful hiring of multiple priority roles across various teams.
• Conduct an audit of our current hiring processes and launch a roadmap for improvements.
• Standardise the hiring process (including structured interviews, scorecards, and feedback timelines).
• Build and present a monthly hiring update to the Strategy team with analytics and insights.
• Partner with Hiring Managers to create SLA‑driven workflows and improve hiring manager satisfaction.
• Identify key areas for employer brand improvement and initiate a campaign or strategy to elevate our presence in the market.

You will be a great fit here if you:

• Thrive in high‑growth, fast‑paced environments and genuinely enjoy building things from the ground up.
• Are energised by solving complex challenges and continuously improving processes in an evolving setting.
• Lead with empathy and are passionate about mentoring and enabling others to succeed.
• Communicate with clarity, confidence, and humility across every level of the organisation.
• Are comfortable balancing strategic planning with hands‑on execution.
• Operate with a bias for action and ownership; you don't wait to be told what to do.
• Care deeply about team culture, candidate experience, and hiring with integrity and intention.
• Embrace technology and experimentation, especially with AI, as tools to optimise and accelerate you and your team's work.

Our ideal candidate has:

• Demonstrated experience leading or managing a recruiting function (in‑house or agency) in a high‑growth, fast‑paced environment.
• A successful track record of hiring across a variety of functions including Sales, Engineering, and Leadership.
• Deep understanding of end‑to‑end recruitment processes, sourcing strategies, and candidate evaluation frameworks.
• Proven ability to partner with hiring managers and influence senior stakeholders with data‑driven insights.
• Strong command of talent market dynamics and an ability to build adaptive hiring strategies as business needs evolve.
• High level of fluency with AI tools and technologies that enhance the recruiting lifecycle.

Job Benefits

• Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year.
• £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space.
• $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development.
• Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays.
• An extra day for your birthday.
• Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully‑paid leave.
• Private Health Insurance – we use Vitality!
• Full access to Spill Mental Health Support.
• Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this – but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries.
• £100 Crypto for you!
• Cycle to Work Scheme.