At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the recruitment process for top talent in a cutting-edge AI infrastructure company.
- Company: Join Radiant, a pioneer in AI-native cloud platforms with a vibrant culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy 25 days of leave, private health insurance, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Embrace diversity and innovation in a dynamic, fast-paced setting.
- Why this job: Shape the future of AI infrastructure while working closely with founders and leaders.
- Qualifications: Experience in talent acquisition, especially in high-growth startups, is essential.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 65000 £ per year.
Radiant is redefining how AI infrastructure is built. We design and operate AI-native cloud platforms engineered for sovereignty, performance, and scale — powering GPU-native workloads, multi-tenant control planes, and high-performance AI systems for the most demanding environments. We’re not building a generic cloud. We’re building purpose‑built AI infrastructure from powered land, to compute, to software.
About the role
As we scale and grow the engineering org, we’re hiring a Talent Partner to own technical recruitment end-to-end. You’ll partner directly with the People Manager and our engineering/product leaders to bring in the people who’ll build a new category of infrastructure. This is a foundational hire on the People team; you’ll shape how Radiant hires, working closely with our founders and leadership team on every hire — this is not a role where you sit between the business and the candidates. You’ll be in the room, shaping decisions, and representing Radiant at its best.
What you’ll do
- Employer Branding — Help develop compelling employer branding for Radiant. Work with the People Manager to articulate the company mission, culture, and employee value proposition to attract top talent.
- Full Lifecycle Recruitment — Own the end-to-end recruitment process for roles across engineering, product, platform, and operations, from role definition through to offer. Deliver an exceptional candidate experience throughout.
- Stakeholder Management — Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers on recruitment strategy and market trends. Challenge hiring briefs and provide guidance on role design, compensation benchmarking, and candidate expectations. Ensure alignment between hiring goals and business growth plans.
- Recruitment Process Optimisation — Implement best practices in interview design, assessment frameworks, and structured hiring. Improve recruitment data tracking, reporting, and hiring performance metrics. Introduce tools and processes that improve the speed, quality, and scalability of hiring.
Who you are
- Proven experience in talent acquisition roles, with meaningful time spent hiring senior engineers in high‑growth startups.
- You will need to have evidence of implementing projects across the recruitment cycle that enabled the business to scale.
- Proven track record of scaling diverse, high‑performing teams in fast‑paced environments.
- Strong stakeholder and advisory skills, with experience partnering directly with founders or senior leadership.
- Excellent sourcing capability and a creative approach to building a robust, scalable bench of talent.
- Data‑driven approach to recruitment and hiring decisions.
- Experience hiring across the UK, EMEA, and US markets.
- Genuine interest in AI and how it can sharpen recruiting workflows and business outcomes.
- Highly organised, autonomous, and proactive — you’ll be operating without a large team behind you.
- Understanding of startup hiring challenges and scaling teams quickly.
- Comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands‑on delivery.
Qualities we look for:
- Set the standard: Every single day, you spot opportunities to constructively shake things up.
- Inspire the change: There’s no blueprint for the future. You’ll embrace challenges and change.
- You’re real and you’re true to yourself: We cherish and celebrate diversity so you’ll feel right at home whoever you are and whoever you’re talking to, you treat everyone the same.
Why should you join us?
What sets us apart is our blend of modern technology, competitive benefits, and an open, welcoming work culture that enables our people to thrive. Here are just some of the great things you can expect from us:
- 25 days of annual leave.
- A culture that emphasises results over hierarchy, process & ego: we place great emphasis on the quality, ingenuity and creativity of work.
- Open communication, regular feedback: we value smooth collaboration, direct and actionable feedback, and believe that leading with empathy and a growth mindset makes us better together.
- Learning Time: we all have dedicated learning time to focus on new skills, projects or interests that lay outside of your day‑to‑day job.
- Health & Wellbeing: we want everyone to feel healthy and happy, so we offer private medical insurance via Bupa.
- Cycle to Work Scheme: we’re committed to building a sustainable business, so we encourage cycling to work.
- Gympass subscription to a variety of gyms and wellbeing apps.
- Participation in the company shares program.
- Enhanced parental pay & leave.
Diversity, Equality, Inclusion and Belonging
We are an equal opportunity employer and we strive to reduce unconscious bias throughout our hiring process. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status. To ensure our recruitment processes provide an equal opportunity for all applicants to succeed, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments that we can make.
Senior Talent Partner employer: Radiant
Radiant is an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration, making it an ideal place for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to thrive. With a strong emphasis on employee growth, competitive benefits, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion, Radiant provides a supportive environment where you can develop your skills while contributing to cutting-edge technology in a welcoming atmosphere. Enjoy 25 days of annual leave, dedicated learning time, and health and wellbeing initiatives that prioritise your happiness and professional development.