Talent Partner

Octopus Legacy

The Company We’re Octopus Legacy: one of the fastest growing tech companies in the country, part of the UK’s most exciting and best-trusted group (you may have heard of some of our sister companies…) and we have a mission. We’re on a path to scale, aiming to become a household name while transforming a long-established industry and helping our customers prepare for, and find support after, death. But we can’t do it alone, and that’s why we’re assembling a team of top performers to build with us. Ready to be part of something big? The Role At Octopus Legacy, we’re on a mission to make end-of-life planning simple and accessible for everyone. As a fast-growing startup, we’re scaling quickly – and hiring exceptional people is at the heart of that journey. We’re looking for our second recruiter to join the team and work alongside (and report into) the Head of People. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you’ll help us build a world-class team at speed. You’ll need to be scrappy, creative, and driven by outcomes. This is not your typical talent role – we’re looking for someone who’s excited by innovation, comfortable experimenting, and passionate about leveraging technology, especially AI, to reimagine how great hiring is done. You’ll play a key role in embedding AI-driven recruitment tools and strategies across the funnel - from intelligent sourcing and automated CV screening to smart scheduling and even AI-assisted interviewing. We want someone who’s not just willing to try new things, but eager to lead the charge in transforming traditional hiring practices. Most importantly, you’ll need to deeply align with our values of optimism, hard work, and customer-first thinking. These aren’t just words on a wall – they guide every decision we make, and we’re looking for someone who truly embodies them. Key Responsibilities: * Own and manage the end-to-end recruitment process for a range of roles - especially high-volume and high-impact positions * Build strong partnerships with hiring managers to deeply understand team goals, define role requirements, and shape hiring plans that support our scale * Hiring manager talent capability and also data as well * Proactively source top talent using a mix of channels - job boards, LinkedIn, events and referrals * Champion the use of AI and automation in recruitment, helping to identify, test, and roll out tools that streamline sourcing, screening, and candidate engagement * Continuously experiment with and refine sourcing strategies using data, hiring metrics, and feedback loops * Deliver an exceptional candidate experience at every stage of the funnel - from first message to first day * Embed our values in every hiring touchpoint, acting as a true ambassador of our culture * Represent Octopus Legacy at career fairs, industry events, and online communities to build our employer brand * Help shape and improve our recruitment processes, content, and playbooks as we scale * Ensure accurate tracking and reporting in our ATS (Greenhouse), and keep the engine running with clean data * Partner on onboarding to ensure every new hire feels welcome, aligned, and ready to hit the ground running * Partner with hiring managers to build their talent capability, coaching them on structured interviewing, assessment, and calibration so hiring decisions are consistent and high-quality. * Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers throughout the process, challenging and guiding where needed rather than simply taking briefs. * Use recruitment data to drive decisions and tell a story , tracking metrics like time-to-hire, pipeline conversion, source effectiveness, and offer-acceptance rates, and using those insights to improve process and influence stakeholders. * Report on hiring performance and share data-led recommendations with the wider team and leadership. Who Are You? * A proven track record of getting things done in fast-paced environments - ideally in a high-growth startup or scale-up * 5+ years of in-house experience * Experienced in high volume recruitment * You’re a proactive, hands on problem solver * You have a growth mindset, a hunger to learn, and the resilience to thrive when things move fast or change often * You’re a confident communicator and relationship builder - you know how to earn trust with hiring managers, and you make candidates feel at ease * You thrive in chaos, managing multiple roles and priorities without dropping the ball * You’re excited about using AI and modern tools to hire smarter, faster, and more effectively * You care deeply about people and culture, and you instinctively hire with values in mind * You bring energy, optimism, and curiosity to everything you do Our Mission When people think about planning for death they think about wills, life insurance and funerals. We take these cold processes and turn them into something more human. Share more than money: leave voice notes, music, recipes. Shape a legacy that connects you while you're here. And after you're gone. Founded by Sam after his mum died suddenly, we’re a group of people who work in death because we’ve been affected by it. We know the difference a good plan makes, and what it’s like when there isn’t one. Death can come between us, leave mess, legal fees, frustration. But it can also make us stronger. We see a world where people talk openly about death, and work out the real meaning of legacy, one that connects to them. We’re here to make that world happen.  Benefits: * Octopus share incentive scheme. * Hybrid working (London Bridge). * Flexible holiday + extra day off for your Birthday. * Work from anywhere in the world for up to 4 weeks per year. * Vitality Health & Life Insurance.  * Pension scheme. * Enhanced parental leave. * Free Will & LPAs + discounts on other Octopus services. * Cycle to Work Scheme and access to the Electric Vehicle (EV) Salary Sacrifice Scheme. * Octopus Giving: we match any charitable fundraising that you do up to £500.  * Octopus Springboard: where we help our employees become fully-fledged entrepreneurs. * Dog friendly office. * Breakfast every day, snacks and wellness activities. We know that to be truly innovative, we need to have a diverse team around us. That is why Octopus Legacy is committed to creating an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Duffel

Talent Partner - FTC 6 Months 📍 London (Hybrid – 2 days in Shoreditch) We’re growing. And that means hiring really, really well. We are looking for a Talent Partner who cares deeply about people, loves solving problems, and wants to build hiring processes that are fair, thoughtful and genuinely enjoyable. This is a generalist role. You’ll hire across different parts of the business including Product and Tech (great if you’ve done it before, completely fine if you haven’t). What matters most is how you think: commercially aware, people-first, and confident enough to challenge when it counts. If you get excited about brilliant hires, strong partnerships, and improving how things work you’ll fit right in. What you’ll be doing: • Own end-to-end hiring across a mix of roles • Partner closely with leaders to shape hiring plans (and push back when needed) • Proactively build diverse talent pipelines - not just wait for applications • Design structured, inclusive interview processes • Use data and insight to guide decisions, not gut feel • Make candidate experience something people talk about for the right reasons What we’re looking for: • We don’t expect you to tick every box. But it would help if you have: • Experience hiring across multiple functions (we value range over narrow specialism) • Exposure to Product or Tech hiring - helpful, not essential • Strong stakeholder skills and the confidence to influence • A bias for action and a solutions-first mindset Comfort working in a fast-moving, collaborative environment If this role excites you but you’re not sure you meet every requirement, apply anyway. We’d much rather speak to great people than perfect CVs. Some reasons why you’ll love working here: 🏡 Work From Anywhere - work abroad for part of the year 🛩️ Duffel Travel Allowance - because building in travel should come with travel perks 🍼 Enhanced parental leave 🧘 Sabbatical options - proper time to recharge 🪩 A Shoreditch office near Liverpool Street + regular team socials 💰 Competitive salary + potential equity You’ll join a smart, kind, ambitious team building something meaningful in travel with real ownership, autonomy, and the chance to shape how we hire as we scale. And we think that’s pretty exciting.

Lendable

ABOUT LENDABLE Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money. We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start: * One of the UK’s newest unicorns with a team of just over 700 people * Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK * Profitable since 2017 * Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs * Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot) So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days. We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes. JOIN US IF YOU WANT TO 1. Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1 2. Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo 3. Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting We’re looking for a Principal Talent Partner to join our growing Talent team, taking ownership of some of our most business-critical and complex hiring challenges. Partnering with senior leadership and the CEO Office, you'll own some of Lendable's most business-critical and high-profile searches, delivering exceptional talent across multiple functions. From shaping hiring strategies and influencing executive stakeholders, to building talent pipelines in entirely new markets, you'll be a trusted advisor and hands-on operator. Whether it's a niche technical hire, a senior commercial leader, or an executive search, you'll bring the judgement, urgency and creativity needed to solve difficult hiring problems and deliver outstanding outcomes. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING: * Partnering with the CEO office and senior stakeholders to shape hiring plans, challenge assumptions, and align talent strategies with business objectives * Leading complex, executive and business-critical searches end-to-end, from initial strategy through to offer negotiation and close * Building market-mapping strategies and talent communities for critical roles, often in new markets or functions, using market intelligence, deep sourcing and creative search techniques * Using data and insights to diagnose hiring challenges, improve process performance, and forecast delivery against hiring goals * Acting as a trusted ambassador for Lendable, selling both the role and the company to senior talent and building lasting relationships that feed future pipeline * Helping shape the future of Talent at Lendable through process improvement, experimentation, and thoughtful adoption of AI and emerging technologies WHAT WE OFFER: * Real impact: see your work directly shape the trajectory of our company. The talent you hire will influence our strategy, growth and long-term success * Growth: join and learn from driven, smart teammates who push for better, daily * High agency: you'll own your projects end-to-end, have a genuine seat at the table, and influence decisions at the highest levels of the organisation * Low ego: we value humility, transparency and the willingness to listen. No politics, just mutual respect and shared wins * Best of both: we're a financially solid fintech with a start-up mentality. Enjoy the stability and resources alongside the pace, autonomy and fun of a scrappy challenger brand WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR: * Significant experience as an internal end-to-end Senior or Principal Talent Partner within a fast-paced, product-led company, with a track record of delivering complex, senior or executive-level searches. * Strong search and sourcing capability, with the ability to build pipelines from scratch, engage senior passive talent, and successfully hire across multiple functions and geographies * Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing senior leaders and navigating ambiguity in high-growth environments * A commercial and data-driven mindset, using market insights and funnel metrics to inform hiring decisions and delivery strategies * Excellent communication, negotiation and closing skills, with confidence managing senior candidate processes and competing priorities * Experience handling highly sensitive and confidential information with discretion * High learning agility, resilience and sound judgement; able to operate independently and lead through change * Curiosity for AI and modern recruiting technologies, and a desire to continuously improve how hiring gets done * Fintech experience would be preferred * Hiring experience in the US would be an advantage INTERVIEW PROCESS: * Screening: 30 minute call with the Head of Talent * Task: 15 minute online assessment * Onsite interview: 45 minute task presentation with the Head of Talent, Lead Talent Partner and Chief of Staff * Remote interview: remote 45 minute interview with our COO LIFE AT LENDABLE * Winning team: the opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies * Flexible working: flexible approach tailored to each role. Hybrid roles require three days in-office weekly; fully remote roles include regular opportunities for in-person connection through socials and off-sites * Socials & connection: opportunities and events to come together, socialise, and get to know each other beyond the office walls * Health coverage: support for your physical and mental wellbeing, including private health cover * Retirement & savings: long-term financial wellbeing through retirement savings plans * Employee referral programme: earn a competitive bonus when you refer successful new team members * Office meals & snacks: enjoy a fully stocked kitchen, plus complimentary lunches prepared by in-house chefs on in-office days at select locations * Sustainable commuting: cycle-to-work and electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes available in select locations Please note: The availability and details of specific benefits vary by location and role. For more information, please speak to your Talent Partner. Check out our blog!