Lead Talent Partner

About the role

tem is transforming the global energy market by building AI-native infrastructure to make electricity transactions transparent and fair. We are seeking a Lead Talent Partner to reinvent our engineering recruitment strategy and accelerate the hiring of senior and staff-level talent. You will challenge existing processes to build a faster, data-driven, and creative approach to talent acquisition.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Manage end-to-end engineering hiring and workforce planning across Rosso, Platform, and broader engineering teams.
• Reduce time-to-hire for senior and staff roles while maintaining a high quality bar.
• Design and execute experimental attraction strategies, including hackathon interview days and brand-led campaigns.
• Develop hiring metrics to identify bottlenecks and track the source of successful hires.
• Implement AI and agent-assisted workflows to automate sourcing and screening while preserving human oversight.
• Partner with engineering GMs to define headcount needs and translate them into precise job specifications.

Requirements

• Proven track record of increasing the speed of technical or senior hiring without compromising quality.
• Experience reinventing hiring processes from first principles rather than following standard playbooks.
• Demonstrated creativity in talent attraction through unconventional routes, campaigns, or events.
• Strong technical calibration skills to evaluate engineering talent and communicate effectively with engineering managers.
• Ability to use data and metrics to drive hiring decisions and prove process effectiveness.
• Proficiency in using AI tools to increase workflow efficiency and the ability to manage hiring in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

• Experience developing employer brand or talent marketing initiatives that impacted senior-level hiring.
• Background in hiring within complex or regulated sectors such as energy, payments, or fintech.
• Familiarity with Ashby or similar structured hiring platforms.

Skills & tools

• Ashby or equivalent hiring software
• AI-assisted recruiting workflows
• Workforce planning and data analytics
• Technical talent sourcing and calibration

Practical notes

• Benefits include 25 days of holiday plus public holidays, a birthday day off, and a remote setup budget of up to £1,200/€1,200 annually.
• A monthly wellbeing budget of up to £150/€150 is provided for personal health and fitness expenses.
• The interview process typically spans 2-3 weeks and consists of a talent call, a behavioral interview, a technical discussion, and a culture-add session.
• We are a fully remote, Europe-distributed team with no internal meetings on Friday afternoons.