Talent Acquisition Specialist

Talent & Community Partner (DTC / E-commerce),

Location: Hybrid (UK-Based, ideally London to come in our office)

Type: Full-Time

Hayra is an AI-native hiring agency on a genuinely huge mission: we're building the future of how companies find, hire, and scale talent. Today that means two things working in balance - Talent Solutions (TaaS), our done-for-you hiring service on a flat monthly subscription instead of clunky placement fees, and the AI-powered app behind it, giving clients real-time visibility into their pipeline, candidates, and hiring data.

We're a service business looking to move into product - we're building towards a full self-service product for brand and web-app scaling, and by 2027 our ambition is to become the one-stop hiring marketplace: a single place where any company can find, vet, and hire the people they need, powered by AI, with Hayra's own hiring DNA baked in from day one.

We're a small, scrappy, founder-led team building something big, and we move fast - this is a rare, ground-floor seat on a company that's about to change shape.

We're looking for a Talent & Community Partner to join us at a genuinely exciting point: we're scaling Talent Solutions while building the AI-native platform underneath it - the same platform we're betting will be a one-stop hiring marketplace by 2027. If you want to transition into tech and Ai this could be for you...

You'll own sourcing and screening for a portfolio of client accounts - running sharp two-tier sourcing (headhunting + inbound), building talent pipelines straight into our platform, and handing our account managers shortlists so good that clients stop shopping around. Alongside that, you'll build something of your own: a real community of niche DTC and e-commerce talent that becomes a genuine asset for Hayra, not just a pipeline.

This is hands-on, high-ownership recruiting, not admin. You'll headhunt directly from competitors and comparable companies, write job ads people actually want to click, and build a network of candidates who stay warm long after their first conversation with us. Every lesson you learn about sourcing well doesn't just stay with you - it feeds straight into the product, meaning your day-to-day work is literally shaping the marketplace we're building towards.

If you've been looking for a way into a tech, product, or AI-scaling business - somewhere you can actually build with tech and AI rather than just talk about it - this is about as close to the ground floor as it gets.

At the core of this role is community: building and growing Hayra's own niche pool of DTC talent - the people you know personally, source directly, and bring together through events and in-person sessions, not just a database of CVs.

From there, it's running the engine that turns that community into hires:

• Run two-tier sourcing for every live role - outbound headhunting from competitors and comparable companies, plus inbound via job ads, careers pages, and premium placements.
• Screen and assess candidates against client-specific scorecards, building shortlists your account manager can take straight to clients.
• Coordinate interview scheduling with account managers, clients, and candidates.

You're also the storyteller behind each client's roles:

• Develop best-in-class EVP and employer-brand assets that make our clients' roles impossible to ignore.
• Write and publish job adverts in each client's own brand and voice.

And you're never sourcing in a silo, you're part of how we win and grow every account:

• Join your account manager on client calls and strategy sessions, bringing a sourcing lens to the table.
• Partner with your account manager to build the sourcing strategy for every client - the channels, the pitch, the plan to actually land great talent.

Behind the scenes, you keep the machine honest:

• Keep candidate records, hiring progress, and pipeline data accurate and current in our platform.
• Track market rates and salary benchmarks, flagging comp adjustments when a role's struggling to attract candidates.
• Spot product inefficiencies and workflow gaps from what you see on the ground, and work with our Ops team to build the fix straight into the web app.
• Help us hit our 42-day time-to-fill target, flagging early when a role's at risk of overrunning.

You're not just settling in - you're already proving the model works, in both halves of the job.

• You're fully ramped across multiple client accounts and comfortable running…