sparta-commodities - Talent Acquisition Partner- Tech
Responsibilities
• Tech Hiring Ownership • Own and lead all tech recruitment — Engineering and Product — with the support and guidance of the TA Lead. • Act as a true recruitment business partner to tech leadership: CTO, CPO, VP of Engineering, and across their teams. • Deliver hands-on hiring across live roles — running efficient, fair, high-quality processes that engineers and hiring managers actually enjoy. • Own the full hiring lifecycle: intake, sourcing, screening, interview design, offer management, and close. • Pipeline & Proactive Sourcing • Move from reactive to proactive — anticipate future hiring needs, build talent pipelines, and maintain a warm network of tech candidates. • Evangelise Sparta in tech talent communities and make sure engineers know who we are and why we're worth their attention. • Partner with the TA Lead, Engineering, and Product to organise tech hiring networking events — not just attend them. Help design and run events that bring Sparta's technical team in front of the right talent. • Process & Employer Brand • Continuously diagnose and improve the recruitment process — identify friction, fix it, and raise the bar for candidate and hiring manager experience. • Help build Sparta's employer brand in the tech market — ensure Engineering and Product are well represented in how we present ourselves externally. • Experiment with AI tools to improve how we work in TA — from sourcing and outreach to process automation and reporting. We use Claude (Anthropic) as a core tool and encourage you to push how it can make recruiting faster, smarter, and more effective. • Get involved with broader People processes and initiatives as Sparta scales, and contribute to wider TA hiring beyond tech when needed.
Benefits
• At Sparta, our culture is built on innovation, collaboration, and high performance. We thrive in a fast-paced environment where initiative is celebrated, challenges are embraced, and impact is rewarded. • Own and build tech recruiting in a fast-growing scale-up that is transforming commodity trading market intelligence • Exposure to AI tools with the support and freedom to upskill — we use Claude (Anthropic) as a core tool and you'll have access from day one • Work alongside engineers and product professionals at the top of their game, and a supportive People team and TA Lead to learn from • Build your skills beyond pure recruitment delivery — get involved with employer branding, events, process design, onboarding, and broader HR work as we scale • Be the face of tech recruiting at Sparta — shape the employer brand and have real visibility across a globally distributed company • High impact, high visibility — hiring primarily in the UK and Spain, with exposure across our global footprint • Equity in a high-growth, VC-backed company • $42M Series B funding — strong market traction and investment • What's the Culture Like at Sparta? • At Sparta, our culture is not just a set of values written on a wall — it's a way of life. We embrace a dynamic environment where initiative is celebrated, challenges are met head-on, and innovation thrives. • You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals who are passionate about our mission and deeply committed to crafting outstanding products and achieving success for our customers. • Understanding is non-negotiable: Understanding leads to believing. Believing leads to winning. The 'why' is the difference between compliance and conviction. Before we execute, we ask: why does this matter, who does it serve, what changes if we win? People who understand the mission don't need to be managed. • Ask for forgiveness, not for permission: Most decisions are reversible. Most fears are not. 90% of decisions are reversible. Make them, ship, iterate. Perfection is the enemy of efficiency. Bias for action means moving before you have all the answers, but it isn't recklessness. The rule: tell the rest of us what you did, what changed, what you learned. • Fall in love with the problem: The mission wins. Your idea doesn't have to. Solutions flatter our ego. They feel like progress. But solutions without problems are opinions, and opinions don't move customers, markets, or teammates. The goal is to find what's true, not to win the room. If your idea gets killed because a better one shows up, that's the system working. • It's your fault. Lucky you: If it's on you, it's in your control. True ownership sounds harsh until you feel how liberating it is. If every problem is yours, you stop spending energy on who to blame and start spending it on how to fix it. Effective leaders default to 'it's on me'. Not out of guilt, but out of agency. • Conflict is a gift: Honesty is an expression of care. Withholding feedback is choosing comfort over growth, yours and your colleague's. Staying silent deprives others of the chance to learn. We challenge openly and with positive intent. Done with care, this builds trust. Done with ego, it destroys it. • Flexible working model — hybrid from our Farringdon office • Attractive company stock option plan • Dynamic, international work environment with a strong focus on innovation • A real performance-led business with support for you to achieve your career goals
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