Founding Talent Lead

Sxaler is seeking a Founding Talent Lead to collaborate closely with its founders in London, UK. The role involves assembling and leading a skilled recruitment team across various specialties and seniority levels, while shaping the company's talent acquisition strategy during its growth phase. Responsibilities include creating thorough assessment methods to gauge recruiting skills and commercial impact, establishing enduring talent pipelines and referral networks, enhancing recruitment processes and reporting, and fostering a recruitment community through events and industry engagement. The position also entails producing content that highlights the company's innovative recruitment approach, experimenting with AI tools and automation to refine hiring practices, and managing select client recruitment projects. Candidates should have demonstrated experience in hiring or managing top recruiters, a background in agency recruitment, in-house talent acquisition, recruiting operations, or leadership, and a deep understanding of what defines an outstanding recruiter. Practical recruitment experience from sourcing to closing challenging hires, strong communication and relationship-building abilities, enthusiasm for AI and recruitment technology, and a passion for community building and content creation are essential. The role offers direct involvement with company founders, opportunities to work with AI and deep-tech firms, access to advanced AI recruitment tools, flexibility to tailor the role to individual strengths, and the chance to develop a recruitment team and community from inception.