Sourcing and candidate standards. You'll run outbound sourcing across software engineering, data science, strategy and product, mapping the market and designing outreach that candidates actually reply to. You'll calibrate what good looks like in panel debriefs, and tune the candidate experience to the role.

Scale and measurement. You'll run a feedback loop on your own work – scoring recommendations against frameworks, tracking passthrough rates, and calibrating against downstream interviewer feedback. Each cycle sharpens your judgement. You'll build the workflows and prompts that scale you and the team, and keep Ashby accurate so colleagues can self-serve pipeline data.

Experimentation and improvement. You'll experiment with hiring methods – AI tools, outreach formats, job description iterations – and judge what's worth adopting. You'll balance this with delivering your roles.

Autonomy and growth. You'll run your roles end-to-end from day one, with the expectation of growing into a domain expert – defining what good looks like, developing hiring strategy, and advising stakeholders on high-impact decisions.

The requirements

Essential:

• Technical hiring. You've recruited software engineers, and you can assess engineering CVs on specialism, seniority, credibility, and relevance.
• Sourcing. You’ve run outbound sourcing campaigns. You build market maps, test outreach approaches, and reach candidates who wouldn't apply directly.
• Judgement. You prioritise where you spend your time – which candidates, which roles, which methods. You adjust to new evidence, and you can explain your reasoning clearly.
• Make stuff happen. You take initiative, keep it moving, and have a bias for action.
• Communication. You write and speak clearly, directly, and concisely. You explain complex trade-offs in plain terms.
• Technical fluency. You treat tools and systems as figure-out-able, and pick up new tech fast. You use AI and judge its output critically.

Bonus:

• Analytical mindset. You think systematically and methodically. You gather data, seek feedback, and adapt to new evidence.
• Data science hiring. You have hired data scientists working on applied machine learning, especially probabilistic models for decision making.
• Product or strategy hiring. You have hired for product or strategy roles in tech companies where analytical thinking is central.
• Privacy standards. You understand candidate data standards – GDPR, data minimisation, handling personal data. You treat candidate information as sensitive by default.

The salary

We expect to pay from £50,000 to £70,000 for this role. But, we’re open-minded, so definitely include your salary goals with your application. We routinely benchmark salaries against market rates, and run quarterly performance and salary reviews.

The culture

At iwoca, the best idea wins. We model our culture on independent thinking, challenging untested logic, and evidence-based decisions. We prioritise learning and growth, and give people the autonomy to develop in the direction that makes them most effective.

We're a tech company and believe in the power of AI to help us work faster and better. We provide the infrastructure where every iwocan always has access to the best models and where those models have access to all of our data. We will help our people to learn how to use and grow with the new tools available to them.

The offices

We put a lot of effort into making iwoca a great place to work:

• Offices in London, Leeds, Berlin, and Frankfurt with plenty of drinks and snacks.
• Events and community-led groups, including running groups, padel, and monthly ping-pong and pool competitions.

The benefits

• Flexible working hours.
• Medical insurance from Vitality, including discounted gym membership.
• A private GP service (separate from Vitality) for you, your partner, and your dependents.
• 25 days’ holiday per year, an extra day off for your birthday, the option to buy or sell an additional five days of annual leave, and unlimited unpaid leave.
• A one-month, fully paid sabbatical after four years.
• Instant access to external counselling and therapy sessions for team members that need emotional or mental health support.
• 3% Pension contributions on total earnings.
• An employee equity incentive scheme.
• Generous parental leave and a nursery tax benefit scheme to help you save money.
• Electric car scheme and cycle to work scheme.
• Two company retreats a year: we’ve been to France, Italy, Spain, and further afield.
• A learning and development budget for everyone.
• Company-wide talks with internal and external speakers.
• Access to learning platforms like Treehouse.

Useful links:

• iwoca benefits & policies.
• Interview welcome pack.
• CV writing guidance.