Talent Acquisition Partner

Location: 4 days/week in our London (Fitzrovia) office

Type: Full-time, on-site

Team: Talent, reporting to Head of Talent (Salim)

THE ROLE

We are looking for a Talent Acquisition Partner to join our London office and help us bring in the people who will deliver this. The pace is fast, the bar is high, and your time at Lorum should be the highest growth period of your career. You will own the end-to-end hiring process for a portfolio of roles across the business, partnering closely with hiring managers from kickoff through offer close. This is a true generalist seat. One week you might be running an engineering search, the next you are screening a content lead or driving a high-volume sales build out across our UK and international teams. You will not just be filling roles. You will be raising the bar on how Lorum hires. That means tightening role scoping upfront so we go to market with clarity, running structured intake meetings, holding hiring managers to the conviction-based scoring standard we have set, and protecting candidate experience all the way through.

YOU WILL

• Run full-cycle recruitment, with a focus on our London and broader UK hiring, and contribute to global roles as needed.
• Lead hiring kickoff meetings and produce sharp, single-source-of-truth hiring briefs before going to market.
• Source actively. Sourcing is owned by Talent at Lorum. You will be hands on with LinkedIn, Kula (our ATS), referrals, and direct outreach, not just managing inbound.
• Run talent screens (30 to 45 min) that genuinely filter for fit, motivation, and expectations.
• Hold hiring managers to our interview scoring standard (Strong Hire, Hire, No Hire, Strong No Hire) and partner with them when scorecards need sharpening.
• Manage offers end to end, including comp benchmarking, ESOP explanations, and closing calls.
• Be a true partner to hiring managers, building real relationships and earning the right to challenge them when the brief, the bar, or the process drifts.
• Contribute to building out our talent function: process, tooling, interview standards, and team rituals like Talent Weekly.

WHO YOU ARE

• Adaptable and scrappy. You move fast, take initiative, and lean toward action when you have enough information to make a sensible call.
• Growth mindset. You actively seek feedback, are honest with yourself when you got something wrong, and adjust quickly. This is important to us.
• Care about partnership as much as you care about pipeline. The best TA partners we have worked with are the ones hiring managers want in the room because they make the bar sharper, the process smoother, and the decision better.
• Strong communicator. You write clearly, push back kindly, and are comfortable giving and receiving feedback directly.
• Deep empathy. You read candidates well, you read hiring managers well, and you can hold both sides of a hiring process with care.
• Operationally tight. You stay on top of pipelines, follow through on commitments, and protect candidate experience.
• Hands on and resourceful. You unblock yourself, use the tools and people available, and surface real blockers early.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

• £70,000 to £90,000 + ESOP (share options).
• Flexible vacation policy.
• Private medical insurance.
• Generous annual leave plus UK public holidays.
• Workplace pension.
• Pay it forward days – we offer 2 annual pay it forward days where you can take time to volunteer for a charitable cause that is important to you.
• Wellness days – we believe you can only work your best when you feel your best, and we know working at Lorum is intense, so we offer 3 wellness days every quarter where you can take time to re-energise.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Lorum is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that reflects a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If you need accommodations at any point in the interview process, please let us know.