About the job Talent Partner
The Future of Technical Recruiting Starts Here
Today, the recruiting industry is broken. There is a churn-and-burn mentality where long hours, brute force, and a profit-driven mindset is prioritised over deep expertise and targeted value creation. This leaves recruiters burned out, clients unimpressed, and candidates frustrated.
The good recruiters seek to find a way out, often leading them to internal careers where earning prospects are sacrificed for greater career fulfilment and the opportunity to grow expertise. Worst case? They leave the industry all together.
We have seen a wave of businesses attempt to address this over the years. The embedded talent model helped some way, but the big players prioritise capacity over capability, leading to extortionate monthly fees for inexperienced recruiters who themselves are rarely compensated even 20% of their charge-out fee.
This leads to a recruiting landscape that bleeds it's finest talent.
At The Tech Talent Co., we are flipping the script. We believe that the very best technical recruiters in industry should not be siloed to internal roles - they should be an external team for hire, delivering value to multiple high-impact companies and playing a holistic role within the talent ecosystem.
We're building a recruiting business that puts the recruiter experience at it's heart, in turn attracting the world's greatest recruiters who create an unreasonable level of value for the EMEA tech landscape.
Here's how we do it:
- Our compensation model ensures our recruiters earn their fair share. After all, it is the people on the ground who produce value.
- We've assembled world-class talent infrastructure, enabling recruiters to focus on what they do best. Low admin, no bs.
- We partner with the very best - Tier 1 VC's 7 & category-defining tech businesses.
- We offer an environment that encourages freedom, respect, and autonomy - empowering our team to do their best work.
- We focus on fairness, equity, and redefining value creation in the industry we love: technology.
The results?
Our recruiters outperform the rest, our clients dominate their markets, and our candidates make game-changing moves.
About you
- You're an expert in tech recruiting and have delivered software engineers to the top 1% of tech companies, as both an external and internal recruiter.
- You've seen it all and consider yourself to be an industry-leading technical recruiter.
- You pride yourself on the quality of your work and conduct.
- You've seen what not to do and now you're looking to do recruiting the right way, at the highest level.
- You're humble, collaborative, introspective, and always seeking to do better.
- You understand that respect is the foundation of all productive relationships.
- You present yourself immaculately and recognise the importance of perception.
- You are outcome-oriented and care about results.
- You are incredibly kind, but you are not always nice.
- You are Stoic and recognise that the power is within you (long live Aurelius!).
About us
In the future, we will be globally renowned as "the standard" of technical recruiting. Today, we are a small but highly skilled team that is making waves across EMEA. Our recruiters have worked at companies like Meta, Palantir, Improbable, Alibaba, Checkout, Deliveroo, and more.
This year, we've helped over 20 businesses reduce their time-to-hire, improve their quality of hire, and reduce their cost-of-hire. We offer a premium recruiting service across retained, embedded, and RPO; with leading tech businesses such as Synthesia.io relying on us to scale their engineering teams.
The Tech Talent Co. is the last recruiting role of your career. Although we are always learning and bettering ourselves as individuals, we're not a place to learn the basics - we're where experts come to apply their craft ruthlessly and produce extraordinary results.
Our team operates remotely by default, but we do meet in person on a monthly cadence and are planning a London office for those who prefer a hybrid set-up.
Here's what we care about:
- Producing high quality work that creates meaningful value.
- Working with the top 1% of talent and tech companies.
- Earning fair compensation for the value we produce.
- Collaborating with exceptional people to collectively raise the bar.
- Feeling respected by our colleagues, clients, and candidates.
- Having the freedom and autonomy to optimise our own workflows.
- Building a category-defining business.
What's on offer
We operate with a "one team" structure. Clients and roles are shared transparently, and we deliver as a unified team. We only hire when we have enough high-quality work to ensure new hires hit the ground running. While BD is appropriately incentivised, it is not necessary nor is it encouraged.
Here's what you'll get:
- Compensation: £150,000 - £320,000 OTE, with no ceiling.
- Unlimited PTO: Recharge when you need it.
- Flexible Hours: We care about outcomes, not clocking in.
- Work From Anywhere: Remote-first.
- Private Healthcare & Dental: Fully covered, tier 1.
- Advanced Tools: LinkedIn Recruiter, Notion, AI tooling, Slack, G Suite, and more - no admin overhead!
- MacBook: Fully specced to support your workflow.
- The Future: As we scale, we plan to introduce a variety of additional benefits to further enhance the experience of working at The Tech Talent Co. Right now, our focus is on putting as much money in the pockets of our recruiters as possible, while ensuring we have sufficient resources to fuel the company's growth. As founders, we lead by example, taking a modest salary and limiting our dividends to just £1k per year - demonstrating our commitment to reinvesting in the business and prioritising our team.
The Interview process
We're focused on finding exceptional people, not making you jump through unnecessary hoops:
- Intro Call: 45 minutes with Hayden Green (Co-Founder), remote.
- Candidate Management: 45 minutes with Paul Batty (Co-Founder), remote.
- Candidate Delivery: 90 mins with both founders, in person.
- Offer: Followed by informal chats to meet the team.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
At The Tech Talent Co., we know diverse and inclusive teams produce better outcomes. We are committed to fostering an environment where everyone feels welcome, valued, and respected.
Research shows that women are less likely to apply if they feel like they don't meet 100% of the requirements. If you are reading this and you aren't sure, please apply we really want to hear from you!
Ready to set the standard?
If you're a top-tier technical recruiter and you vibe with this JD, then we would love to chat. Apply now and let's set the standard!