Technical Talent Acquisition Partner

About Us

At Encord, we're building the AI infrastructure of the future. The biggest challenge AI companies face today is actually not half as glamorous as the outside world may think: it's all about data quality. In fact, the success of any AI application today relies on the quality of a model's training data — and for 95% of teams, this essential step is both the most costly, and the most time-consuming, in getting their product to market.

As ex-computer scientists, physicists, and quants, we felt first-hand how the lack of tools to prepare quality training data was impeding the progress of building AI. AI today is what the early days of computing or the internet were like, where the potential of the technology is clear, but the tools and processes surrounding it are still primitive, preventing the next generation of applications. This is why we started Encord.

We are a talented and ambitious team of 60, working at the cutting edge of multimodal and visual AI, backed by top investors, including CRV and Y Combinator, leading industry executives like Luc Vincent, former VP of AI at Meta, and other top Bay Area leaders in AI. We are one the fastest growing companies in our space, and consistently rated as the best product in the market by our customers. We have big plans ahead and are looking for our first Technical Recruiter to join us in building our team.

The Role

You will be Encord’s first recruiter on the ground in the UK. You’ll be partnering with our Engineering & Product leadership to attract the brightest talent, helping Encord sustain the next stage of our hyper-growth. You will guide candidates through the hiring process end-to-end: from sourcing and screening to closing, and take the lead across all core technical functions, including Engineering, ML, Solutions, and Technical Support.

Ultimately, your ability to work with engineering and product leadership to think and act strategically about how to source and hire the right candidates to grow the team will play a pivotal role in growing Encord overall.

- Manage Full Recruitment Lifecycle: Oversee the entire recruitment process, from sourcing and screening candidates to conducting interviews and facilitating the hiring process with hiring managers and teams.

- Source Candidates: Develop and own sourcing strategies and deliver results against those strategies for searches across various technical functions.

- Conduct Interviews: Perform initial screenings and coordinate interviews with hiring managers, ensuring a thorough and efficient evaluation process.

- Assess Candidate Fit: Evaluate candidates' skills, experience, and cultural fit through structured interviews and assessment techniques. Develop scoring metrics to streamline decision-making.

- Build Talent Pipelines: Develop and maintain a pipeline of qualified candidates for current and future job openings. Build relationships for the future with passive candidates and talent.

- Onboarding Support: Collaborate with the HR team and other departments to ensure a smooth onboarding process for new hires.

About you 

- You have 3-5 years of experience as one of: 1) at an executive search 2) on a recruiting team within a start-up or corporate environment or 3) as an external recruiter.

- You are focused on one thing: finding top-talent. You know this involves relentless nurturing, creative outbound campaigns, and A/B testing job specs to optimize for inbound.

- You are a self-starter and want to be a part of building a hyper growth business from the ground up.

- You are target-driven, detail-oriented and have a strong sense of urgency; for each challenge that arises you always find a solution.

- When you hear a role and its criteria, you can immediately think of a couple candidates who’d be a great fit for it, whether they’re actively looking or happy in their current roles.

- You thrive and get energy from connecting others; you are often the first person top-talent reaches out to when they’re thinking about their next role.

More about the Role & Encord

- Competitive salary, commission and equity in a hyper growth business.

- Strong in-person culture: most of our team is in the office 3+ days a week.

- Room to grow into anything you choose to — a year ago we were 25 people, now we're 60. We'll be growing insanely fast over the next 24 months and you'll have all the opportunities for growth as you can handle.

- 25 days annual leave a year + public holidays.

Encord offers a unique opportunity to be part of a startup with a clear mission and vision. You will get to explore and build services enterprise AI use cases across many different industry verticals such as healthcare, surveillance, retail, agriculture and many more. 

Our work is at the cutting edge of computer vision and deep learning, which also includes working on solving unsolved problems within those fields.