wayve - Talent Acquisition Partner [12 month FTC]

• Manage end-to-end recruitment for each role - sourcing, screening, interviewing and closing candidates, using Ashby to track your pipeline. • Proactively source and headhunt candidates rather than relying on inbound applications, balancing depth of engagement for quality hires with the volume each search demands. • Run regular check-ins and debriefs with hiring managers to keep every search on track. • Deliver a world-class candidate experience through transparent communication, timely feedback and a seamless interview process. • Track day-to-day metrics and flag pipeline bottlenecks as they come up. • 🧩 What you’ll be working on: • Owning a portfolio of typically 10-15 concurrent roles spanning software engineering, machine learning, integration and data engineering through to product and program management. • Educating hiring managers and stakeholders on job profiles and search strategy, so every search starts from a sharp, well-defined brief. • Using data to make the right calls on where to focus search effort across your portfolio, and continuously improving how we hire based on what that data tells you. • Advising hiring managers on how AI is changing the shape of technical and product roles, and helping translate that into hiring strategy and candidate profiles. • Helping build the high-performing, diverse technical and product teams that drive Wayve’s innovation and business impact as the company scales. • 🙌 You should apply if: • You have 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruitment experience, in a fast-scaling tech startup or scale-up environment. • You’re a sourcing-driven recruiter at heart. You proactively headhunt and engage candidates rather than waiting for applications to come to you, and you know how to balance sourcing for quality with adding volume into the funnel when the search calls for it. • You’re highly data-driven, using pipeline data to diagnose bottlenecks, understand what’s working, and course-correct your search when things aren’t converting. • You act as a true business partner to hiring managers, helping shape and define roles, not just taking orders. • You’re forward-thinking about AI and how it’s changing roles and ways of working, and can advise hiring managers on how this shows up in the profiles they’re hiring for. • You have hands-on experience using Ashby to manage your recruitment pipeline. • Ideally, you’ve worked across both agency and in-house recruitment, giving you a well-rounded view of sourcing and candidate management. • 🌱 Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! If you’re passionate about autonomy and keen to learn, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement.