Principal Talent Partner, Tech

Move•Mountain View, CA

7h•$150,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We’re an embedded talent consultancy on a mission to evolve how businesses recruit. Our clients include some of the most innovative organisations in the world — from Google-backed unicorns to Fintech and SaaS scale-ups reshaping their industries. Our team spans the UK, Germany, Spain, South Africa, and Vietnam. We’re remote-first, globally minded, and deeply collaborative. We believe hiring should be human-centred, data-informed, and impact-driven — creating better outcomes for companies and candidates alike. As a Principal Talent Partner, you’ll play a pivotal role in building world-class technical and product teams for some of the fastest-growing tech companies. Embedded directly within a client, we have been brought in to lead and accelerate US hiring for a VC-backed, hyper-growth technology company building category-defining products out of Mountain View. They have scaled more than 6x in two years, they are doubling their US team this year, and recruiting is now the constraint on how fast they grow. This is the senior recruiting seat on the ground in the US. You own it. You report into a founder-led leadership team that cares deeply about hiring, and you set the standard for how recruiting runs across the US business. Supported by a squad of sourcing and delivery specialists, you’ll combine deep technical curiosity with consultative partnership and a delivery-first mindset.

Requirements

Senior, principal, or founding-recruiter experience at a startup or scale-up in a genuine high-growth phase. You have owned outcomes, not handed off candidates.
Proven experience recruiting for Engineering, Data, or Product roles within tech scale-ups or high-growth environments with real exposure to leadership and executive hiring.
Strong understanding of technical hiring landscapes — from modern engineering stacks to data and product org design.
Executive presence and resilience. You back yourself, you push back when a search is not scoped to win, and you can carry a room with founders.
AI fluency that goes well beyond prompting for the odd email. You have built workflows, reports, or systems that change how recruiting runs.
A track record of building or improving a recruiting function or system, not just contributing to one.
Comfort operating with autonomy and speed, including making the call in the moment when a hire is on the line.
US-based and able to be in Mountain View three days a week.

Nice To Haves

A technical educational background, for example computer science, that lets you hold credible conversations with technical candidates.
Experience with a modern ATS (Ashby a plus) and interview-intelligence tools such as Metaview. We care more about the instinct to use tools well than the specific logos.

Responsibilities

Lead all US hiring as the lead recruiter on the ground. Around 30 plus roles this year, the majority technical, alongside senior leadership and executive searches.
Run full-cycle, sourcing-led recruiting. Inbound is not enough at this level, so you find the talent and you build the pipelines.
Build best-in-class recruiting capability on the ground, working directly with founders and the executive team. Defend the bar with data, push back when a search is not scoped to win, and move fast.
Mentor a small US recruiting team and lift the standard around you.
Bring an AI-native way of working. You build and experiment with AI tools, you design workflows that make recruiting faster and sharper, and you teach others to do the same.
Own the numbers that matter: pipeline velocity, offer acceptance, and time to hire, without losing the quality bar.
Deliver a first-class candidate experience — timely communication, thoughtful feedback, and authentic advocacy
Collaborate closely with your Move squad — sharing learnings, optimising tools, and continually improving delivery quality
Adapt quickly to evolving client priorities and hiring challenges in high-growth, fast-paced environments