Head of Talent Partner Network (Hiring Immediately) in London

Company Description

For most engineers, LinkedIn has little or no value and is primarily the place where you get spammed. That’s why we’re building TechTree, a career mentoring and networking platform specifically for developers. The business is built around a two-sided problem. Companies struggle to attract and retain engineers for more than 12 months. Engineers find it hard to discover engineering teams that really suit them and their interests. Engineers also struggle to get support with their career and don’t get many opportunities to build their professional network outside of their companies. These are the issues TechTree has set out to solve.

TechTree is backed by some great investors like the co-founder of Monzo, executives from Startupbootcamp, Amazon, Permira and many more.

Job Description

Why this role matters

Working on behalf of fast-growing VC-backed companies like Hopin or Advent Private Equity, we are helping companies to find and attract diverse engineering talent from all over the world. As the Head of Talent Partner Network within TechTree, you will be working with our 80+ community partners such as meetup/hackathon organizers, freelance recruiters and technical bloggers who are recommending talent to our platform. You’ll be the key person maintaining the relationships with our clients, helping to onboard them and you’ll help evaluate and filter the talent recommended by our network. You will also grow and manage this network as well as implement new processes and work closely with our product team to create new features and optimize the user experience of the platform.

Your role will be instrumental in helping TechTree to represent a huge number of diverse candidates and clients across various regions, countries, and cultures so there simply can’t be just one candidate profile.

As a Head of Talent Partner Network at TechTree, we would love you to help us with the 3 main things:

• Working directly with clients and talent partners as well as onboarding them to ensure best practices.
• Continuous search on how to improve processes at TechTree and the product we are building.
• Collaborate with talent partners to create great value for the engineering candidate experience.

Your role

You will spend most of your time growing and nurturing our network of engineers and talent partners; however, you will not be expected to spend time on sourcing engineers directly - your goal would be to nurture our relationships with community and talent partners to make sure we’re getting high-quality recommendations.

What’s key for us is to deliver an amazing candidate experience for engineers applying via TechTree, which will be driven both by product features of our platform, team, and the community we’re building. Lastly, you will also make sure our clients have a great experience when recruiting via TechTree. It will often involve an advisory attitude and a deep understanding of the requirements of the ideal candidate.

You’ll spend your time:

• Helping us to design an amazing candidate experience for engineers using TechTree.
• Grow our talent partner network and ensure high quality of recommendations.
• Help with onboarding of our clients and ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Design and implement best practices.
• Partner with the product and sales team to feedback the developer and client needs to align our product strategy.

Qualifications

• You have a minimum of 4 years of engineering sourcing and recruitment experience in a recruitment agency working with fast growth VC-backed companies.
• Obsessing about candidates' experience in the recruitment process.
• Start-up mentality - willing to work in a small team and be flexible - always looking for improvements.
• Advisory approach - helping our clients figure out the best approach, push back when necessary.
• You hold a high degree of confidence in all areas (communication, approach, style); understanding what it means to represent an early stage startup who has successful products to build.
• Highly developed diplomacy, influencing, negotiation and conflict management skills.
• Detail-oriented with a strong focus on quality and also if you are able to think outside of the box.
• You pride yourself on the quality and accessibility of your communication.
• You have previous agency client-facing experience: you’ve created and managed a few different clients, and understand the values and behaviours that a successful client relationship.
• You are at your best when you can multitask and have enthusiasm to create new ideas.
• You understand developer life cycles and ecosystems.
• You really enjoy meeting new people from all walks of life and value diversity.