Talent Acquisition Lead - Tech

Can you help us fix the world's most broken supply chain? The fashion industry produces over 100 billion garments a year. 60% end up in landfill, not because people don't want these clothes, but because the supply chain for getting secondhand fashion from donation to resale is completely offline, manual, and broken. Fleek is fixing this. Our mission is to make secondhand the first choice. We are building the infrastructure powering the global secondhand clothing trade, through a B2B marketplace and the AI systems digitising the supply chain behind it.

Through Fleek, vintage stores, online resellers, and retail buyers source graded secondhand inventory directly from wholesalers and rag houses across multiple countries. Our key enabler is FleekSort, an AI model fine-tuned on secondhand fashion, that can grade, price, and categorise items with just a photo, turning what has historically been an opaque and manual trade into a structured, searchable, and tradable global inventory layer. Since 2022, we have saved 9 million items from landfill and tripled in size year-on-year. We have raised ~$50M from a16z, Y Combinator, HV Capital, and others, and have recently closed our Series B. Our advisors and private investors include operators behind Depop, Shopify, and Postmates. Today, we serve thousands of resellers and retailers across the UK, Europe, and the US. With the secondhand fashion market projected to reach $350B by 2027, Fleek is building the AI-native operational and financial backbone for secondhand commerce globally.

We are looking for people who want to build something that matters, and move fast doing it. About the Role: We are looking for a Senior Technical Recruiter to own end-to-end hiring for our Engineering and Product teams in London and lead the buildout of Fleek's talent function. You will report directly to the Head of Talent, and be the primary driver of technical hiring at one of Europe's fastest-growing AI startups. You will be operating in a high-velocity, early-stage environment where the briefs are sometimes ambiguous, the brand is still being built, and the infrastructure you depend on is being designed in parallel with the work. You will help build both.

This is also more than a delivery role. You will also be a key contributor to the talent architecture we are building: role frameworks, interview structures, sourcing playbooks, AI-integrated hiring workflows. We build with AI here, not just use it. You will be expected to use tools like Claude Code to create real recruiting products and tooling, not just draft outreach messages. The systems you help build now will define how Fleek hires for the next phase of growth. This is a rare opportunity to shape a technical talent function from the ground up, at a company that is doubling annually and backed by a16z and Y Combinator. For someone ambitious who wants to step up and ultimately own this function, the scope here is significant.

What Makes You a Fleek Senior Technical Recruiter?

• Sourcing Excellence: You know how to find people who do not know they are looking. You have built pipelines in markets without brand recognition, using creative outreach, community mapping, and relentless curiosity.
• Calibration Partner: You push back on hiring managers when the brief is vague, the bar is inconsistent, or the process is creating more noise than signal.
• Technically Literate: You do not need to write code, but you understand the difference between a backend and platform engineer, why a principal IC is different from an engineering manager, and what separates a genuinely strong technical candidate from a polished one.
• High-Velocity Operator: You are comfortable running 20+ interviews a week without letting quality slip.
• Builder Mentality: You do not just use the system. You improve it.
• AI Builder: You do not just use AI tools in your workflow. You build with them.

What You'll Do:

• Own Technical Hiring End-to-End: Drive end-to-end recruitment for Engineering and Product roles in London, from role design through offer close.
• Source Where Others Can't: Build cold outreach strategies, community pipelines, and creative sourcing approaches to find exceptional technical talent.
• Calibrate Hiring Managers: Partner with Engineering and Product leaders to define what great looks like for each role.
• Build the Talent Architecture: Help design and implement the hiring infrastructure at Fleek.
• Build Recruiting Products with AI: Use Claude Code and other AI tools to create real tools and systems for the talent function.
• Support Strategic Talent Projects: Contribute to employer branding, hiring events, talent community building, and the development of Fleek's external presence.
• Own Candidate Experience: Maintain a fast, respectful, and high-quality candidate experience at every touchpoint.

What You Bring:

• 3+ years of in-house technical recruiting experience at a startup or scale-up.
• A track record in an early-stage business where the brand was unknown.
• A proven track record of sourcing and closing technical talent in competitive markets.
• Experience hiring for Engineering roles (backend, frontend, full-stack, infrastructure/platform).
• Strong calibration instincts.
• High comfort with ambiguity.
• Demonstrable experience building with AI tools.
• Experience working with a tier one ATS.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• A genuine interest in building talent systems.

Ready to build the engineering team behind one of the fastest-growing AI startups in Europe? If you want to own high-impact technical hiring, build real tools with AI, and shape how a post-Series B company scales its technical talent function, we would love to hear from you.

How We Hire For This Role: We run a structured, intentional process. Here is what to expect:

• Apply (applications close 17 April 2026).
• Hiring Manager Screen (45 min video call).
• CTO Interview (45 min video call).
• Case Study (take-home over a few days, then a 60 minute live presentation).
• Founder Final (30-45 min in-person).

We aim to move fast. From application to offer, the process typically takes 2-3 weeks.

How We Work: Fleek is an in-office company. We believe the best work happens when people are together. Most of the team works from our London HQ 3-4 days a week. We are not prescriptive about it. Performance and trust matter more than attendance.

The Practicalities:

• Location: London HQ, Heneage Street, E1 (Shoreditch / Aldgate East)
• Work model: In-office, typically 3-4 days per week
• Level: Senior
• Stage: Post-Series B, hyper-growth
• Team: 100+ across London, India, and Pakistan (~20 in London office)
• Culture: High ownership, non-hierarchical, fast-moving.
• Applications close: 17 April 2026

Our Values: Five values shape how we work at Fleek:

• Dream Big and Disrupt Yourself
• Absolute Ownership
• Curiosity Leads the Way
• Talk to the Customer
• Embrace Diversity