Technical Talent Acquisition Partner in London

About us

Encord is the universal data layer for AI that helps 300+ AI teams train and run models on the right data. Our platform indexes, curates, annotates, and evaluates data across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production. Trusted by Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more. We're an ambitious team of 100+ working at the frontier of AI and have raised $60M in Series C funding from Wellington Management, CRV, Next47 and Y Combinator.

The Role

As a talent team, we're on a mission to build the best AI Data Infrastructure company in the world, and the race is on. To keep winning, we need the best engineers, product leads, and scientists, and finding them will be the best part of your job. This is a sourcing-first role with real ownership in an early-stage startup. You'll work end-to-end, owning how we attract exceptional talent globally - hunting down brilliant people before they're looking, building pipelines that keep us ahead, and shaping the processes that scale our engineering and ML org from great to world-class.

What you'll do

• Own the hunt. Multi-channel sourcing is your playground. Boolean, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, niche communities, conferences, referrals, and AI tools to find signals faster than anyone else.
• Build pipelines that matter. You're not just filling today's roles. You're mapping the market, warming up passive candidates, and making sure we're never starting from zero.
• Write outbound that actually works. Craft campaigns that cut through the noise and make top talent stop scrolling and reply.
• Run a tight process. You own the full cycle, from sourcing to signed offer, without letting speed compromise quality or candidate experience.
• Raise the bar. Work with hiring managers to sharpen scorecards, challenge calibration, and make sure every hire genuinely moves the needle.
• Bring the data. Response rates, pipeline conversion, and time-to-hire. You know your numbers, and you use them to get better every week.
• Be the expert. Senior engineering leaders will lean on you for market insight. You'll push back, advise, and keep hiring and moving at a pace that matches our ambition.

Who we're looking for

• You're a proven hunter. Sourcing isn't just something you're good at - it's your edge. You find the people nobody else can, and you know how to make them want to join.
• You're learning how AI makes you a better recruiter. The genie is out of the bottle - you're not waiting for a workshop to tell you, you're already using it to find people nobody else can and testing the current limits.
• You're a problem solver first. You're the glue between a hiring manager who needs the best and a candidate who needs a reason to move.
• You're creative. Experimental, and a little obsessed with finding people everyone else missed.
• You're data first. Metrics aren't a reporting exercise, but how you get better.
• You thrive in the pace of a startup. Things move fast, and no two weeks look the same.

Experience

• 3-7 years in technical recruiting, placing hard-to-fill engineering, ML research, and product roles.
• Experience hiring across multiple markets - familiarity with both US and UK talent landscapes is a plus, as we have hubs in London, San Francisco, and New York.
• Comfortable using modern sourcing tools and AI assistants - experience building or using agents to automate recruiting workflows is a big plus.
• Agency, startup or scale-up background preferred - we're a two-person technical talent team, so be ready to work autonomously and figure things out as you go.

Why Encord

• Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity in a high-growth startup.
• Strong in-person culture, most of the team works from our London office 4+ days/week.
• 25 days annual leave + UK public holidays.
• Annual learning & development budget.
• Travel for customer visits, events, and conferences across the UK and Europe.
• Company lunches twice a week.
• Monthly socials & bi-annual team offsites.