Talent Acquisition Lead

Key Responsibilities

Talent Acquisition & Partnerships

• Partner with the Senior Leadership Team to execute a robust hiring plan aligned with business goals and budgets.
• Manage external recruitment partners and internal stakeholders to ensure excellence in hiring delivery (quality, speed, and experience).
• Oversee end-to-end recruitment processes, ensuring alignment with company culture and diversity goals.
• Define and implement a consistent, data-driven recruitment process across markets.
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion in all talent decisions.

Onboarding & Retention

• Design and implement scalable onboarding plans for new joiners to ensure rapid integration and productivity.
• Partner with People Operations to track new hire success and engagement.

Employer Brand & Candidate Experience 

• Strengthen the company’s employer value proposition across all regions.
• Ensure a best-in-class candidate experience reflective of the company’s culture and values.

• Hands-on technical recruiting experience - you can assess a fullstack developer CV and run a credible screening call.
• A strong sourcing background - you build pipelines proactively rather than waiting for inbound applications.
• Process-oriented - you have built hiring processes before, and you document what you do.
• Stakeholder management - you are comfortable managing multiple stakeholders with competing priorities
• Data-driven - you track the right metrics and use them to make decisions.
• Hiring across markets - you are familiar with multi-market hiring, or have a willingness to get up to speed on both the London and Cape Town talent markets.
• AI tooling - you are curious about AI tools and how they can improve recruiting efficiency

• 5+ years of experience in Talent Acquisition with a proven track record of delivering results in technical hiring.
• Deep experience in end-to-end hiring, including technical & non-technical recruitment, assessment methodologies, and stakeholder engagement.
• Proven ability to manage and evaluate external recruitment agencies/search firms to ensure consistent quality and brand alignment.
• Data-driven decision-making: ability to interpret hiring metrics and translate insights into action plans.
• Experience directly sourcing candidates across technical and non-technical roles.
• Analytical mindset with a proven history of consistent drive to seek improvements in the systems you work with and ways of working.

• A proven track record of hiring A-Players, with a method and theories on how to do it.
• An ability to sell Theodo as the best destination for A-Player candidates, going above and beyond to build a strong relationship with candidates during the process.
• Experience across the UK and South Africa.
• Background in both in-house and agency/executive search environments, bringing commercial and operational perspectives.
• Hands-on experience with HR systems (e.g., Greenhouse, Workday, Lever, SmartRecruiters, or similar) and comfort with HR analytics dashboards.
• Proven experience in employer branding and candidate experience optimisation.
• Previous experience in fast-scaling or transforming environments, where structure, culture, and talent strategy evolve rapidly.

• 25 Days annual leave
• Learning and Development support throughout your career at Theodo
• Private Health Insurance via Vitality
• 3 week work from anywhere policy
• Equipment budget for your tech set up
• Company pension
• Monthly Socials
• A Slack network of 700+ “Theodoers” across our extended ecosystem — ask questions, share patterns, or troubleshoot obscure challenges with some of the sharpest minds out there
• You will work from our office based in London