Senior Talent Partner, Sona
9 Months Fixed Term Contract
£65-75k
AI-powered people operating system for frontline teams
Job no longer available
AI-powered people operating system for frontline teams
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
£65-75k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To solve the unique challenges of frontline work with truly intelligent AI that empowers every employee.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for someone with the ability to deliver on a handful of roles in parallel with a focus on speed and quality, a data-driven approach to building pipelines and advising the team, and a commitment to hiring experiences that leave candidates confident Sona is the right place for them
- You’re an experienced full-lifecycle recruiter, ideally with experience in hiring for a high-growth, early-stage company
- You recognise the importance of hiring a diverse team and can implement strategies that give us the best chance of success
- You’re committed to delivering an exceptional candidate experience
- You know your numbers and understand how to use key recruiting metrics to assess the health of your roles, troubleshoot, and advise teams on making the best hiring decisions
What the job involves
- Joining Sona’s Talent team is an ideal role for someone excited to make an impact on an early-stage Talent function at a high-growth startup and work directly with our most senior leaders to grow an exceptional commercial team
- You’ll be one of a two-person team with a broad hiring remit in either commercial or product and engineering hiring
- Speed is everything at Sona and, in Talent, our goal is to make the very best hire we can for every position in the team
- It’s a tough balance to strike but with the support of experienced, pragmatic hiring teams who know the importance of good recruiting, a strong employer brand and value-proposition to present to a large candidate pool, and a market-leading set of recruiting tools, you’ll be well set up for success
- To excel, you’ll need to learn Sona inside out, to help you identify the candidates who will bring the most to our team and share the information they need to be excited to join us!
- Own the full hiring lifecycle for commercial or product and engineering hires at Sona
- Implement strategies to ensure we hire a diverse team across the board
- Plan and execute initiatives to continuously improve our hiring
Our take
80% of people don’t work at desks, but the technology for deskless workers only attracts 1% of all enterprise software investment. Consequently, little software has been designed to benefit the frontline. Sona is a workforce technology startup setting out to help solve this issue, building an all-in-one platform specially designed to empower frontline workers and help their employers retain staff and operate more efficiently.
By using its app, users can view and claim shifts, communicate with their colleagues, and book holidays. Moreover, Sona has additional modules for HR, Payroll, and Engagement, so customers can manage all of their people operations in one place, or integrate with their existing tools.
Sona is an early-stage startup, yet already counts big names across Social Care, Hospitality, and the Charities sector who have combined to book millions of shifts on the Sona platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2026
$45m
SERIES B
May 2024
$27.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $81.7m
Company benefits
- Share options
- 35 days annual leave (25 days standard plus 10 flexible public holiday days)
- Pension contributions matched up to 5%
- Enhanced parental leave & pay - 26 weeks full pay primary parent / 8 weeks full pay secondary parent
- Co-working space stipend (if you don't live in London)
- Quarterly all expenses paid team retreats
- The latest Macbook and equipment for your home office
- Professional development budget
- Unlimited free books
- Comprehensive health insurance via Bupa
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Ben Dixon
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Associate - Consulting at PWC and Software Engineer at Thorlabs. Also, Co-Founder & CTO at Catapult Ventures Limited for 6 years.
Oli Johnson
(Co-Founder)Previously Associate at NEO Capital and Investment Manager at Baugur Group. Co-Founder at Catapult for 6 years.
Steffen Wulff Petersen
(Co-Founder)Previously Investment Banker at Goldman Sachs for 2 years. Since then has been Co-Founder & Managing Director at Lazada Group and Co-Founder at Catapult.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Sona
- Fully remote work and total control over your schedule means you can excel at Sona no matter where, when, or how you like to work. We also offer extended parental leave to everyone.
- We're partnered with the Women in Tech Forum, a membership platform dedicated to supporting and accelerating the careers of women. Optional memberships are available to all women and allies at Sona to access their wide range of events, masterclasses, articles, and more.
- Salary transparency across all of our job postings means your offer is based on your experience and interview performance, not your previous salary or your negotiating skills.
- We use structured interview processes and assessment criteria to remove as much bias from our process as possible
- We do all of our collaborative work in public channels, which means everyone gets a say and the recognition they deserve, and nobody's out of the loop.
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