Early Careers Talent Partner, Cleo AI
£40-55k
+ Bonus + Equity
AI personal finance assistant
Posted today
AI personal finance assistant
201-500 employees
Posted today
£40-55k
+ Bonus + Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To change the world’s relationship with money.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience managing graduate, internship, or early careers recruitment programmes end-to-end
- Experience building relationships with universities, campus networks, and early careers communities
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner with hiring managers and internal teams
- Comfortable managing multiple hiring cycles and programmes throughout the year
- A candidate-first mindset with a passion for delivering exceptional experiences
- A proactive, creative approach to building early talent pipelines and solving hiring challenges
- Data-driven and curious, using insights to improve recruitment outcomes
- Experience working in fast-growing, tech-driven environments is ideal
What the job involves
- As an Early Years Talent Partner, you’ll own the strategy and delivery of our graduate and early careers hiring. You’ll be responsible for running our graduate schemes across the year, building strong university partnerships, and ensuring we attract, hire, and support exceptional early-career talent
- You’ll work closely with hiring managers, the wider Talent team, and the People team to create a seamless experience for candidates while ensuring our graduate programmes deliver real impact for the business
- This role combines hands-on recruitment, campus engagement, and programme partnership, giving you the opportunity to shape how we build our future talent pipeline
- Own end-to-end recruitment for graduate schemes, internships, and other early careers programmes across the year
- Build and maintain strong relationships with universities, careers services, and student societies to create sustainable talent pipelines
- Represent the company at graduate fairs, campus events, and early careers initiatives
- Design and deliver best-in-class hiring processes for early talent, ensuring an outstanding candidate experience
- Proactively source and engage graduate talent through university networks, referrals, and targeted outreach
- Partner closely with hiring managers to understand team needs and plan early talent hiring cycles
- Work with the People team to support onboarding, facilitation, and development of graduate cohorts
- Use data and insights to improve hiring outcomes, attraction strategies, and programme effectiveness
- Champion inclusive hiring practices and build diverse early talent pipelines
- Stay close to early careers trends, university engagement strategies, and emerging graduate expectations
- Hiring graduate cohorts of approximately 10–12 hires per intake, multiple times per year
- Supporting early careers hiring across Engineering, Analytics, and Machine Learning teams
- Building structured pipelines from top tier universities aligned to these technical disciplines
- Partnering with hiring managers and the People team to ensure successful onboarding and cohort integration
Salary benchmarks
Our take
People are increasingly not satisfied with the products being offered by traditional banks, which have proven slow to react to the needs of younger consumers who expect more from their everyday experiences.
Cleo was one of the first companies to make great use of chatbots that sit within Facebook's messenger app. This chatbot-first approach and Gen Z user base have given it strong virality. It now has millions of registered users, 99% of which are based in the US, leading to a decision to take a year break from the UK market to focus on its US Gen Z customers. And after a successful year in the US its now eyeing up a return to the UK.
Its Series C funding will help the company to double down in the US, where it will make a significant increase in employee headcount, and enable Cleo to maintain and expand its service during an economic downturn.
Financial advice delivered via bots is a crowded space, so Cleo benefits from having a strong brand presence. It has gone for very bold, fun, Gen Z-focused messaging which helps it to stand out from competitors such as Emma, Plum, and Chip.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$80m
SERIES C
Dec 2020
$44m
SERIES B
Total funding: $137.5m
Company benefits
- Meaningful equity with early exercise, plus top-ups on promotion
- Up to 26 weeks’ parental leave
- Paid 1-month sabbatical every 4 years
- Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
- Pension/401K match up to 6%
- Learning & development budget
- Mental health support via Spill
- Flexible working for a healthy work–life balance
- Work remotely from one of our hiring locations, with a hybrid option in our London office (1+ day/week)
- Annual company off-sites
- Company-wide performance reviews every 6 months
- Clear progression plans with opportunities to lead, grow, and challenge the status quo
- We’ll cover your OpenAI subscription
Company values
- Make it Happen - Own the outcome. Lend a hand, take a hand. Fast execution.
- No bullsh*t - Intellectually honest. Go hard on problems, not people. Data-backed decision making.
- Learn at Speed - Jump in and figure it out. Dig deep, do it right. Learn what matters.
- Bring Good Vibes - Read the room, lift the room. Show up for others. Keep it real, keep it positive.
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Barnaby Hussey-Yeo
(Founder & CEO)Previously a Data Scientist at Wonga, one of the companies that pioneered the smart use of data for loan decisions. Joined Entrepreneur First where Cleo was formed.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Cleo AI
- We’ve set up an internal committee of truly passionate people that are dedicated to ensuring Diversity and Inclusion is embedded in how we all operate as a team. We agree on meaningful actions, and get on with implementing them. We have three main focuses right now, which are:
- 1) Improving SocioEconomic diversity across the company
- 2) Increasing the number of women in Leadership roles
- 3) More community outreach
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