Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, QuantSpark
Tech Recruitment
+ Share Options scheme
2 days a week in office
Data analytics services consultancy
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Data analytics services consultancy
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Share Options scheme
2 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To pioneer the strategic application of data science and software development to improve commercial decision-making.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of proven success in technical recruitment, with substantial experience hiring for technical roles across various levels of seniority
- Deep understanding of engineering disciplines including data engineering, software development, DevOps, and AI/ML
- Expertise in sourcing strategies across LinkedIn, Hackajob, Welcome to The Jungle and additional sourcing tools
- Experience with applicant tracking systems (experience using Screenloop is a bonus), recruitment analytics, and performance metrics
- Strong track record of building and managing talent pipelines in competitive markets
- Solid grasp of modern tech stacks including Python, React.js, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), and data tools (dbt, Airflow, Snowflake) from a recruitment perspective
- Ability to assess technical skills through structured interviews and practical assessments
- Understanding of software development practices, agile methodologies, and DevOps culture
- Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and emerging technologies in the data space
- Exceptional communication skills with ability to influence hiring managers and senior leadership
- Strong project management capabilities with ability to handle multiple searches simultaneously
- Proven ability to provide strategic recruitment advice and market insights
What the job involves
- As we scale our technical capabilities to meet growing demand across private equity, retail, asset management, and public sector clients, we're seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner who shares our mission and can attract exceptional engineering talent to drive our growth
- Own End-to-End Recruitment: Lead the complete recruitment lifecycle across our technical departments, across all levels of seniority, from initial sourcing through to successful onboarding
- Build Strategic Talent Pipelines: Develop and maintain robust pipelines of exceptional engineering talent across data engineering, software development, DevOps, and AI/ML specialisms
- Partner with Technical Leaders Across the Business: Collaborate closely with Engineering Managers, Lead Engineers, Product Leaders and technical teams to understand evolving hiring needs and technical requirements
- Elevate Our Employer Brand: Represent QuantSpark at tech events, meet-ups, and conferences to build our reputation as a destination for top engineering talent
- Drive Recruitment Innovation: Implement cutting-edge sourcing strategies, assessment methodologies, and candidate experience improvements
- Mentor and Develop: Contribute to building our internal recruitment capabilities offering guidance and best practice principals to our internal hiring teams
- Competitive Talent Market: Navigate the highly competitive landscape for data engineers, developers, AI specialists and Product professionals in London
- Technical Assessment Excellence: Design and implement robust technical evaluation processes and hiring scorecards that identify and evaluate both technical excellence and cultural fit
- Scaling Quality Standards: Maintain our hiring standard of excellence while significantly increasing recruitment velocity
- Hybrid Recruitment Adaptation: Optimise recruitment processes for hybrid working models understanding the nuances of in-person and remote interviewing,
- Diverse Talent Acquisition: Build inclusive hiring practices that attract underrepresented groups in technology
- What Success Looks Like:
- Quality Hires: Consistently support in the placement of exceptional talent that thrives in our culture
- Pipeline Excellence: Maintain robust talent pipelines that enable rapid scaling while preserving quality standards
- Stakeholder Satisfaction: Achieve high satisfaction scores from hiring managers and candidates throughout the recruitment process
- Market Leadership: Position QuantSpark as an employer of choice for technical talent in the London data and AI ecosystem
- Process Innovation: Continuously improve recruitment efficiency, candidate experience, and assessment accuracy
Salary benchmarks
Our take
QuantSpark helps governments and businesses to strategically apply data science through the development of complex decision-making software. Primarily, its work involves analysing large datasets and systems in order to understand customer behaviour and help clients make informed decisions for strategic planning in sales and marketing.
In recent years, big data has become central to the operation of businesses large and small, and this has led to great demand for data scientists fluent in sophisticated modelling and analysis. QuantSpark seeks to go a step further, providing a service which combines data science with commercial insight- effectively providing both services through one transaction. By doing this, QuantSpark hopes to offer clients a more meaningful insight into their data than a standard consultancy could.
Already, the company has an impressive client list, including the UK Government, the Australian Government and Bain Capital. QuantSpark's tools and solutions are developed to become embedded in its clients' operations, ensuring a long-lasting relationship between them, and meaning that, as QuantSpark continues to expand its client base, its model should allow it to see continued success in the future.
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Company benefits
- Social impact: We are passionate about giving our team the chance to have a real social impact and will have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of impactful projects
- Training budget: Everyone in QuantSpark has a monthly training budget to spend on their own professional development
- Scale-up culture: We don't often have pizzas but we do offer a unique environment to contribute to QuantSpark's growth culture
- Socials: We're a social bunch and love to get to know each other
Company values
- Diversity: Diversity of people and ideas is essential for wellbeing and effectiveness as teams. Our interdisciplinary approach means that we produce extraordinary outcomes for our clients and also provides significant opportunities for professional development
- Analytical Rigour: We use data to cut through cognitive biases and pursue the truth for our clients. We test and probe each other's ideas and findings to ensure we leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of being the best we can
- Teamwork: As we work together to scale up QuantSpark and support our clients in their own analytics transformation journey, we take pride in teaching, learning, developing, and sharing as a team
- Entrepreneurialism: Rolling our sleeves up. Grit. We focus on doing our best to get the best outcomes for our clients. We empower all our colleagues to think outside the box in order deliver innovation for our clients
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Adam Hadley
(Co-Founder & CEO)With Master's degrees from Oxford and KCL, Adam divides their time between running QuantSpark and Tech Against Terrorism- the world's preeminent NGO helping to tackle terrorists' use of the internet.
People progressing
Anastasia is the Head of People and Operations. Anastasia joined the business as EA to Adam, the CEO, and quickly built out a department of her own which continues to expand.
Sophie joined the team in 2021 as a Senior Product Manager. They were quickly promoted to Product Lead and again to Head of Product.
Daniel joined as a Data Analyst in 2019 and now leads the Analytics Engineering Team and is an integral part of the business.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at QuantSpark
- QuantSpark is an equal opportunities employer committed to fair and equitable treatment for all potential employees, regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, or disability.
- We utilise diversity and inclusion data to pinpoint areas of improvement to our hiring process.
- We are transparent with our salary bandings to encourage everyone to feel empowered in their negotiations, and to ensure parity with our existing teams.
- We have a flexible approach to our interview process, utilising video interviews and take-home assessments. We aim to increase the variety of our assessment styles, to offer fair opportunity to all types of candidates.
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