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Ably is an infrastructure company powering realtime digital experiences, delivering over 700 billion messages monthly to more than 2 billion devices. Customers include HubSpot, Fin, Dialpad, NASCAR, Sportsbet, and General Motors.
As Senior Talent Partner, you will be Ably's sole in-house recruiter, reporting to the VP of People and owning full-cycle hiring from brief calibration through offer closure. You'll be responsible for shaping how the company interviews, sources talent, selects tools, and delivers candidate experience. In a 60-person company, every hire significantly impacts the team, so success is measured by long-term retention and cultural fit, not speed of placement.
Ably is heavily technical—a large share of the team are distributed systems engineers. You'll run full-cycle recruiting across the company, with particular depth required in engineering. You must understand the company's infrastructure and technical challenges well enough to have credible conversations with senior engineers and the CTO, distinguish technical depth from surface polish, and articulate why Ably's problems are worth a candidate's time.
Day-to-day responsibilities include: calibrating hiring briefs with managers and providing honest feedback when requirements need adjustment; running outbound sourcing, screens, and interviews for engineering, GTM, and other roles; building and refining structured interview processes and scorecards to ensure fairness and consistency; leveraging Greenhouse ATS and AI tools for sourcing, outreach, screening, and administrative work; managing and negotiating recruitment agency relationships; and shaping employer brand and candidate experience, including pre-hire onboarding.
Ably operates remote-first across the UK and Europe, with in-person company gatherings twice yearly (February and August, mandatory attendance). The role requires strong self-management, autonomy, and the ability to build relationships with hiring managers and candidates in a distributed environment.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Track record of finding and closing high-calibre engineers, ideally in infrastructure or distributed systems, with technical grounding to earn engineers' respect
- Strong judgment partnering with hiring managers: brief calibration, honest feedback, structured and fair interview processes
- Proven full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally as sole or lead recruiter in a start-up or scale-up, hiring across UK and Europe
- Hands-on outbound sourcing and market mapping with demonstrated results; habit of using AI in recruiting workflows
- Experience managing recruitment agencies, including negotiating terms and accountability
BONUS:
- Experience hiring for developer tools, AI, or open source companies
- Background in agency recruiting
- Familiarity with Greenhouse ATS
- Active presence in tech or recruiting communities; comfort as a public face for Ably
