Recruiter (AI)

Location: London, United Kingdom; in-office role. Candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to London and work from the London office.

Company

Cognition builds Devin, an AI software engineer designed to reason through real-world tasks.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end recruiting for technical and G&A roles across EMEA.
• Build talent maps across enterprise software, AI, developer tools, cloud, infrastructure, finance, legal, people and operations.
• Partner with hiring managers to define requirements, calibrate profiles and design interview processes.
• Source, engage and close high-calibre passive candidates while delivering a strong candidate experience.
• Use data and market insight to advise leadership on pipeline quality, conversion, compensation signals and hiring risks.
• Improve recruiting processes and scalable talent practices across EMEA while acting as a talent advisor.

Requirements

• Proven full-cycle recruiting experience at high-growth technology companies, with a strong track record in technical hiring.
• Experience recruiting for G&A functions such as finance, legal, people or operations, or the range and curiosity to ramp up quickly.
• Strong understanding of enterprise software, SaaS, AI, infrastructure, developer tools or cloud markets.
• Experience hiring across multiple EMEA markets, including understanding of local market dynamics, employment practices and compensation norms.
• Ability to identify and engage high-calibre passive candidates and build pipelines without relying on inbound applications or agencies.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to push back, calibrate and advise senior hiring leaders.
• Ability to manage varied requisition loads across functions and seniority levels, prioritise effectively, and maintain strong attention to detail.
• Track record of hiring bar-raising talent in competitive markets and comfort operating in a fast-changing 0-to-1 environment.
• High agency, high ownership and a builder mindset focused on improving the recruiting system while delivering results.

Nice to have

• Experience building early teams in new international markets.
• Recruiting experience in frontier AI, developer tools, infrastructure, cloud or enterprise software.
• Experience hiring across both technical and G&A roles and partnering with regional stakeholders, founding country leaders or G&A leaders.
• Ability to move between strategic talent mapping and hands-on execution, prioritising quality as well as speed.
• Experience closing candidates with multiple competing options.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a highly talent-dense, fast-moving AI company.
• Partner with international talent leadership to raise the recruiting bar and build scalable recruiting capability across EMEA.
• Work with urgency, precision, high judgment and strong ownership in an ambiguous environment.
• In-office work from the London office is required.

Hiring process

• Applications are subject to Cognition’s Global Applicant and Job Candidate Privacy Notice.
• Reasonable accommodations are available throughout the hiring process upon request.