Talent Acquisition Lead - Product & Engineering

🚀 We’re on a mission to make real estate transactions smarter, faster, and friction-free.

🏢 Real estate is the world’s largest asset class, yet the legal processes and tools behind it remain slow, manual, and underinvested. Lawyers must review dense documents line by line and piece together information across silos, all while clients demand faster, more transparent due diligence.

🤖 That's where we come in. Orbital Copilot is the AI assistant built exclusively for commercial real estate law. Developed with former practicing real estate lawyers, it accelerates complex due diligence by up to 70% while delivering legal-grade precision.

💰 We’ve just raised a $60m Series B to accelerate our UK/US expansion.

🤝 We're trusted by leading firms like Goodwin and BCLP to remove the busywork so legal teams can focus on what they do best: applying sharp legal judgment, delivering standout client service, and getting deals over the line faster.

💡 Working at Orbital means joining a team that's reimagining how real estate transactions get done - moving fast, working collaboratively, and giving people the ownership to make a real impact from day one.

Orbital is building the AI platform powering the next generation of commercial real estate law, one of the biggest, most complex, and most under-automated industries in the world.

Our product, Orbital Copilot, helps legal teams at leading firms like Goodwin and BCLP accelerate due diligence by up to 70%, with legal-grade precision. Following our $60m Series B, we’re scaling fast across the UK and US.

We’re hiring a Talent Acquisition Lead – Product & Engineering to own how we attract and hire world-class Product, Engineering, Design, and AI talent in London, the people building the technology that enables faster, smarter, more transparent real estate transactions.

This is a strategic, hands-on role where you’ll lead the function end-to-end: from workforce planning and role design through to sourcing strategy, hiring quality, and candidate experience.

You’ll partner closely with the Head of Talent, the CTO, and Product & Engineering leadership to build a hiring engine that scales with Orbital, without compromising on bar, pace, or craft.

Orbital is at a defining moment post our $60mill Series B raise. The Product & Engineering organisation we build now will shape our roadmap, accelerate delivery, and push forward our global AI capabilities.

At the same time, we believe Talent Acquisition is being reinvented. This role is central to building a modern, tech-enabled hiring function, one that uses AI and automation to move faster, find better signal, and deliver a high-touch candidate experience.

• Own the Product & Engineering TA strategy for London, aligned to squad growth and business priorities.

• Lead and develop a small high-performing TA team (2–3 people).

• Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, and AI leadership on role design, workforce planning, and hiring decisions.

• Use market insight and hiring data to guide priorities and future skills planning.

• Create sourcing strategies for high-signal technical and AI/ML roles.

• Strengthen Orbital’s employer brand through storytelling, content, and targeted outreach.

• Build relationships across London’s engineering and AI communities.

• Partner directly with the CTO and senior leaders on calibration, assessment, and decision-making.

• Run crisp role briefings, interview training, and debriefs.

• Deliver a high-touch, inclusive candidate experience from first call to close.

• Bring a strong point of view on how AI is changing hiring—and how Orbital should lead, not follow.

• Own TA tooling and data quality (Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, WTTJ) and push it further through automation.

• Use AI to improve speed, signal, and decision quality—while keeping the process human and fair.

• Continuously evolve hiring practices so they scale with the company.

• Strong technical recruiting experience across Engineering, Product, and ideally AI/ML.

• Proven track record scaling teams in fast-moving, high-growth environments.

• Strategic mindset and strong execution, you can set direction and still run searches.

• Confident partnering with senior stakeholders, using data and judgement.

• Deep care for candidate experience and inclusive hiring.

• Comfortable building structure in ambiguity.

• A tech-enabled mindset: you’re excited by systems, automation, and the future of TA.

• You’re AI-native: you actively use AI tools in your workflow and believe the best TA teams will look fundamentally different in 2–3 years.

• Experience with Ashby and modern TA tooling/automation.

• Exposure to scaling a UK-based tech or AI organisation.

• You’ll hire the teams building AI that’s transforming a massive global industry.

• You’ll work directly with senior Product & Engineering leadership and shape the org.

• You’ll own a critical function at a major inflection point for Orbital.

• You’ll join a collaborative, ambitious culture where speed, quality, and curiosity matter.

🔒 Security is everyone’s responsibility at Orbital. We ask all team members to follow our security policies, complete regular awareness training, and handle sensitive data with care in line with ISO 27001 standards. Spot something unusual? Reporting risks or incidents quickly helps us maintain the strong culture of security and compliance we all depend on.

💡 At Orbital, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We especially welcome applications from people who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, or if the right role isn’t listed yet, we’d still love to hear from you.

💰 This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on several factors, which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and business requirements.