relay - Talent Lead

London - On-site+ Equity1w ago

In Office Staff EMEA Talent Acquisition Manager Recruiter Outreach Ashby Talent Acquisition Stakeholder Management

Requirements

• Aim with Precision: You define problems clearly and measure your impact meticulously. • Play to Win: You chase bold bets, tackle the hard stuff, and view constraints as fuel, not friction. • 1% Better Every Day: You believe that small, consistent improvements lead to exponential growth. You move quickly, deliver results, and learn from every experience. • All In, All the Time: You show up and step up. You take ownership from start to finish and do what it takes to deliver when it counts. • People-Powered Greatness: You invest in your teammates. You give and receive feedback with care and candour. You build trust through high standards and shared success. • Grow the Whole Pie: You seek out win-win solutions for merchants, couriers, and our customers, because when they thrive, so do we. • If these resonate, and you combine strong technical fundamentals with entrepreneurial drive, let’s connect. • Relay is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, inclusion, and fostering a workplace where everyone thrives.

Responsibilities

• You own end-to-end hiring: you can run the full lifecycle from sourcing and outreach through to offer, while keeping quality and pace high. • You’re a trusted partner to senior stakeholders: you build strong relationships with Business and Ops Leadership and People, align on priorities, and help translate plans into hiring action. • You’re operationally excellent: you create sharp JDs and scorecards, keep pipelines clean in Ashby, coordinate smoothly across hiring managers/agencies, and produce high-quality candidate packs/interview kits. • You leverage systems and tools to scale impact: you use the ATS expertly and you’re curious and proactive about new tooling (sourcing tools, automation, AI) that improves productivity and quality of hire. • You use data to drive decisions: you track and act on key TA metrics (sourcing activity, time-to-fill, time-in-stage, offer acceptance, candidate/HM satisfaction) and keep stakeholders clearly informed. • You improve the machine, not just run it: you spot bottlenecks, propose fixes, and implement changes that improve speed, quality, and candidate experience. • Proven track record as a Senior Recruiter or Talent Acquisition Lead.. • Background in hypergrowth startups or scale-ups. • Structured, clear communicator with strong stakeholder management. • Data-driven mindset, using metrics to prioritise, iterate and improve outcomes.

Benefits

• Generous equity, richer than 99% of European startups, with annual top-ups to share Relay’s success. • Private health & dental coverage, so comprehensive you’d need to be a partner at a Magic Circle law firm to match it. • 25 days of holidays • Enhanced parental leave. • Located in Shoreditch, our office set-up enables the kind of in-person interactions that drive impact. We work 4 days on-site, with 1 day remote. • Hardware of your choice. • Extensive perks (gym subsidies, cycle-to-work, Friday office lunch, covered Uber home and dinner for late nights, and more). • Fast and Focused Hiring Process • 1. Talent Acquisition Interview - 45 min • 2. Hiring Manager Interview - 60 min • 3. Case Study - 75 min • 4. Decision and offer within 48 hours; our process mirrors our pace of work.