Lead Technical Recruiter
Bjak has an opening for a Lead Technical Recruiter in United Kingdom. The listing describes it as a full-time, senior position.
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Bjak has an opening for a Lead Technical Recruiter in United Kingdom. The listing describes it as a full-time, senior position.
From the advert, the main requirements are 7+ years of experience.
The employer does not state a salary in this listing; DGJ Insight below shows an official pay benchmark for the place where one exists.
Visa sponsorship is not mentioned. Applicants from outside United Kingdom should check the official work permit route before applying.
Dev Global Jobs found this job on Arbeitnow on Nov 4, 2026.
- Employer
- Bjak
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level (from the title)
- senior
- Pay
- Not stated by the employer
- Experience asked
- 7+ years
- Found
- Nov 4, 2026 on Arbeitnow
- Employer text
- 399 words, about 2 min to read
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Source: OECD Average annual wages, 2025
UN living-cost index for United Kingdom (ICSC post adjustment 76.4), as of 1 Oct 2026.
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About the role
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01About ActAI
There are over 5 billion users using basic applications today such email, notes, tasks, calendar and they're not AI-native. Our mission is to build proactive applications for anyone in the world, who are not used to complex prompting. We aim to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organising and workflows, with minimal to no prompting.
Our first application is an agent-first mobile communication app. We believe building applications that users use daily for communication, coordination and collaboration needs will help integrate AI into their lives. The net effect is to eliminate misinformation, achieve low coordination costs, enable high quality tasks and collaboration at scale with minimal or little prompting.
02About the Role
As Lead Technical Recruiter, you will lead critical technical searches, raise recruiting quality across the team and help build ActAI's technical recruiting capability.
03What You Will Be Doing
Lead ActAI's highest-priority technical searches across AI/ML, engineering leadership, backend, infrastructure, web and mobile.
Build search strategies and talent maps for scarce technical talent across global AI and engineering markets.
Personally source, engage, assess and close senior and difficult-to-hire candidates.
Set a high bar for technical profile assessment, ensuring recruiters understand candidates' actual work, technical depth and relevance before progressing them.
Partner closely with engineering leadership to define hiring profiles, calibrate interview standards and diagnose gaps in the recruiting funnel.
Coach technical recruiters on sourcing strategy, profile assessment, candidate engagement and closing.
Review pipeline quality and recruiting data, identify where searches are failing and change strategy quickly.
Develop repeatable recruiting practices that improve hiring quality and speed as ActAI scales.
04What You Will Need
7+ years of technical recruiting experience, including significant ownership of senior and difficult engineering searches.
Strong track record hiring high-quality engineers through direct sourcing and headhunting.
Deep familiarity with technical talent markets and strong understanding of software engineering and AI/ML profiles.
Ability to distinguish exceptional technical work from strong branding, titles or CV keywords.
Experience partnering directly with senior engineering leaders on hiring strategy and calibration.
Demonstrated ability to coach recruiters and improve the quality of their sourcing and assessment.
Strong judgement, urgency and willingness to remain deeply hands-on.
05Nice to Have
Experience building or leading technical recruiting at an AI company or high-growth technology startup.
Existing networks across AI/ML and engineering communities.
Experience hiring across multiple markets including the US, Europe and Asia.
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