Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

About the role

This is a standalone role with real scope: you'll lead hiring across the organization - Operations, Research, Member Experience, and beyond - often managing up to 15 roles at once across the UK, US, and Germany. The majority of our roles are permanent, but you’ll also manage seasonal, and contract hires. You'll report to our People Director and join a team of five spread across the UK and US.

What You’ll Do

• Own the full hiring lifecycle - From role launch to offer, you’ll independently manage a high-volume of concurrent hiring processes, while delivering an excellent candidate experience at every stage.
• Coach and support hiring managers - Act as a trusted partner to hiring managers and interviewers, helping them make confident, well-informed hiring decisions.
• Headhunt and source proactively - Go beyond inbound applications to actively headhunt candidates, building a strong passive talent pool and long-term pipelines for key functions.
• Create tailored assessments and interview processes - Design role-specific assessment materials and interview processes that genuinely evaluate candidates against what success looks like in the role.
• Build and steward our employer brand - Partner with our Comms team to make sure candidates get a real, compelling insight into life at Founders Pledge.
• Drive reporting and continuous improvement - Set up and maintain ongoing hiring reporting, using data to build continuous improvement in our processes and candidate experience.
• AI enablement - Continue to embed AI and ATS automation into our hiring process.
• Support wider people initiatives - Occasionally partner with our Head of Organizational Development on projects like onboarding improvements.

What We’re Looking For

We're looking for someone driven by securing exceptional talent and building teams, not just running a process. You'll bring real hustle to headhunting, a sharp eye for employer branding, and the judgement to design hiring processes tailored to each role - all while maintaining pace without ever sacrificing quality.

You'll have:

• In-house recruitment experience - You've built your career hiring in-house in a fast-paced start-up or scale-up environment, whether as part of a small team or in a standalone role.
• End-to-end recruitment expertise - From advising hiring managers on role requirements through to making and negotiating offers, you've owned the full hiring lifecycle.
• A coaching mindset - You know how to support and guide hiring managers to make good, timely decisions, even under pressure.
• Excellent judgement and EQ - You navigate competing stakeholder demands and candidate needs with composure, extracting signal from ambiguity and delivering customer-service-level professionalism throughout.
• High personal standards - You hold yourself to a high bar and are relentless about candidate experience, responsiveness and results.
• Autonomy and drive - You're comfortable working independently, bringing structure and creativity to how you approach sourcing and hiring.

Nice to haves:

• Ecosystem experience (a strong nice-to-have) - Experience hiring into research or advisory roles within the effective giving ecosystem.
• Experience in a mission-driven environment.