Senior Talent Partner - Engineering (AI Recruiting)

TL;DR

Senior Talent Partner - Engineering (AI Recruiting): Own end-to-end hiring for scarce senior engineering roles (Senior Staff and Principal), with an accent on proactive passive-first sourcing, calibrated senior hiring-bar decisions, and refining benchmarked role specs with engineering managers. Focus on using AI across the recruiting workflow to move faster while keeping human judgement on the calls that matter.

Location: Remote (United Kingdom)

Company

hirify.global is rebuilding energy transaction infrastructure with AI-native software to make electricity buying, selling, and pricing transparent and fair.

What you will do

• Carry the hardest senior engineering roles end to end, from sourcing strategy through offer and close.
• Build a proactive, passive-first pipeline for Senior Staff and Principal engineers ahead of demand.
• Make calibrated hiring-bar calls for senior, high-stakes roles and refine role specs with engineering managers.
• Improve sourcing, assessment, and process by identifying gaps and proposing evidence-backed fixes.
• Use AI across sourcing, screening support, and search administration to increase speed without reducing quality.
• Act as the trusted day-to-day partner to the engineering managers you support, without needing oversight.

Requirements

• Proven senior or technical recruiting experience as a strong individual contributor, carrying hard senior roles end to end.
• Sharp technical calibration to read engineering signal and partner effectively with engineering managers.
• Demonstrated ability to source scarce senior talent proactively and build pipeline ahead of demand.
• Comfort refining specs with hiring managers and pushing back to ensure the process lands the right hire.
• Ability to operate in a fast-moving, sometimes ambiguous scale-up environment and take ownership without being chased.
• Deliberate, fluent use of AI in recruiting workflows, with clarity on where human judgement must stay.

Nice to have

• Experience hiring engineers in regulated or complex domains (energy, fintech, payments).
• Experience with structured, calibrated hiring processes (e.g., Bar Raiser-style bar).
• Familiarity with Ashby or similar structured hiring tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote and distributed around Europe with clear core hours and no internal meetings on Friday afternoons.
• 25 days holiday plus public holidays, with an option to swap public holidays and an extra day off for your birthday.
• Home working and wellbeing budgets: up to £1,200/€1,200 annually for remote setup and up to £150/€150 monthly for wellbeing support.
• Stock options and ownership in the mission.
• Salary bands reviewed twice per year.

Hiring process

• First call with Talent Team (20 mins).
• Behavioural interview with hiring manager (30 mins).
• Technical interview with team (45 mins) and culture-add interview with stakeholders (45 mins).