Lead Talent Partner, Orbital
Product & Engineering
£85-107k
2-3 days a week in office
AI LegalTech for Real Estate
Posted today
AI LegalTech for Real Estate
21-100 employees
Posted today
£85-107k
2-3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make property transactions radically more transparent, quick and easy to transact.
Role
Who you are
- Scale-up experience: proven track record hiring in a high-growth tech scaleup with high standards and ambiguity
- Deep Product & Design Engineering market immersion: credible, active network in the UK. Ideally you have run meetups and build communities. You know who the standout people are and what motivates them
- Exec-search level craft: evidence of closing low-volume, very high-calibre engineers via creative, non-standard routes (not just inbound + job boards or Linkedin)
- Attraction + nurture strategy: you’ve built always-on engagement motions that convert exceptional people over time (content, community, referrals, targeted events, high-touch outreach)
- CTO partnership: you’ve partnered closely with technical leadership to define quality, design assessment, and calibrate the bar
- Strong written narrative and messaging: you can translate a technical story into compelling outreach/materials (and collaborate well with marketing)
- Data-informed judgement: you use metrics as feedback loops for quality and funnel health — and can clearly explain what you track and why
- Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, or if the right role isn’t listed yet, we’d still love to hear from you
What the job involves
- Orbital is entering a major scaling chapter, and Product Engineering + Design Engineering are at the heart of it. We’re looking for an exceptional Lead Talent Partner to own how we find, attract, engage, assess and close the very best Product Engineers and Design Engineers in a fiercely competitive market
- This is a low-volume, high-calibre role. Success looks like building a market-leading attraction engine and a repeatable hiring system that consistently delivers bar-raising hires, primarily in the UK (with occasional US roles)
- You’ll be the CTO’s partner for Product & Design Engineering hiring — owning the strategy, the operating rhythm, and the market-facing plan that enables Orbital to repeatedly win top talent
- At Orbital, these roles are typically:
- Product Engineers: product-minded full‑stack engineers who ship end-to-end customer value
- Design Engineers: frontend/UI engineers operating at the intersection of design and engineering, with high craft
- You’ll work closely with the CTO, senior Product/Engineering/Design leaders, and a marketing specialist to build the narrative, content and materials that help Orbital stand out — and convert the best people over time
- 1) Own the Product & Design Engineering hiring strategy (CTO partnership)
- Build and own a forward hiring plan with the CTO/COO: forecasting, sequencing, and prioritisation
- Own the hiring plan and reporting in the ATS (e.g. Ashby): req pipeline, stage design, interviewer pools, and metrics
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders on:
- Market intelligence and compensation benchmarks
- Org design and team build sequencing
- Interview plan quality and signal
- Funnel health and quality indicators
- 2) Build a market-leading attraction engine (content + community + creative search)
- Design and run a high-touch, always-on engagement and nurture engine for top Product & Design Engineering talent (not tied only to live reqs)
- Partner with leadership and marketing to create standout content and outreach materials (positioning, sequences, technical narratives, proof points, community activity)
- Establish targets (set with the CTO) and report on pipeline health and learning loops:
- Warm pipeline size by discipline/level
- Engagement rates (reply / meeting booked)
- Nurture → active candidate → offer → accept conversion
- Competitive intel and drop-off reasons
- 3) Deliver hiring outcomes (low volume, very high calibre)
- Personally own the most senior and business-critical Product Engineering hires (e.g., Staff/Principal/Lead level and key leadership roles)
- Protect the quality bar for assessment, references, and offer calibration; step in on escalations and closing
- Set the operating rhythm: pipeline reviews, prioritisation, stakeholder alignment, and continuous improvement
- What this role is not (important):
- Not high-volume recruiting — this is low volume, bar-raising hiring
- Not a “maintain the process” job — you’ll build and continuously improve the attraction engine and operating model
- Not fully remote — hiring is UK-first and roles are hybrid
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Legal reasoning requires smart and experienced law professionals, and collating information and data takes up their valuable time. That's why Orbital has used foundational AI models to build an assistant for law professionals. The company builds SaaS solutions that transform how property professionals work by leveraging cutting-edge Generative AI and LLM technologies.
The company's products aggregate geospatial, property, and legal data from diverse sources to provide an unprecedented view of legal risk attached to properties. This provides real estate lawyers and property professionals with a one-stop-shop for property due diligence, allowing a vastly more transparent and efficient process whilst providing a better quality of service to clients.
Orbital's AI solutions are already used by thousands of lawyers and commercial property professionals across the UK and the US. It plans to grow its presence in the US and scale its team to achieve this objective. There is a huge opportunity to transform the way that property, the world's largest asset class, is transacted and bring it into the 21st century.
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Meet the team
7 people
Kieran Pattison, Senior Customer Success Manager
Our mission
To ensure clients love working with us and see maximum value from their investment. If our customers are successful, everyone wins.Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2026
$59.4m
SERIES B
May 2023
$10.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $75.7m
Company benefits
- Matched pension contributions and equity options
- Flexible working hours and location; access to 30+ Boutique Workplace offices in the UK
- 25 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Professional equipment and a £1,000 p/a personal learning and development budget
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- All-company off-sites, Deliveroo Wednesdays and team socials
- Generous parental leave and salary sacrifice nursery fee scheme through Yellownest
- Extra day annual leave when you move house
- Generous parental leave and salary sacrifice nursery fee scheme through Yellownest
Company values
- Question or Commit - Embrace debate and move forward
- Power to our People - Stubborn on vision, flexible on approach
- Bold and ambitious - Aim high, challenge the status quo
- Eat that frog! - Take on the hardest, most impactful work first
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Edmond Boulle
(Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer)Prior to co-founding Orbital Witness, Ed worked with high growth startups in the UK aerospace industry. He qualified as a barrister with and holds a law degree from Oxford University.
Will Pearce
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Research Analyst - Space Team at London Economics for 4 months and Business Strategy Analyst at Satellite Applications Catapult for 2 years.
People progressing
Naomi joined as Office Manager with varied experience across ops and events. Quickly promoted to Ops Manager, then Chief of Staff, she ensures we have everything needed to reach our ambitious goals.
Aisha, ex-M&A lawyer at Clifford Chance, transitioned to sales at Tessian. At Orbital Witness since 2019, she was promoted to head of BD & CS, now CRO, driving business growth.
People breakdown
35%
65%
Female
Male
Last updated on 11 February 2025
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Orbital
Aisha Tummon (Chief Revenue Officer)
- We are proud to nurture a diverse team and inclusive, caring working environment.
- We value diversity of thought and particularly encourage applications from those who are underrepresented in tech.
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