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About the Role
Foundation Partners embeds world-class talent operators into client teams to help founders access the best possible talent across Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market functions, ensuring speed, quality, and focus.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end direct sourcing strategy and execution for critical roles across Engineering, Product, and GTM.
- Build and maintain high-quality, always-on talent pipelines using proactive outbound sourcing.
- Identify non-obvious talent pools through advanced Boolean search, specialist platforms, communities, and referrals.
- Create and recommend sourcing channels beyond standard job boards.
- Continuously test, iterate, and refine sourcing approaches to maximise response rates, quality, and speed.
- Leverage and optimise sourcing tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Juicebox, Metaview, and AI sourcing intelligence tools.
- Partner with Embedded Talent Leads to experiment with new sourcing technologies.
- Maintain clean, accurate pipeline data for visibility and decision-making.
- Act as a live feed of the market, informing teams of talent availability, scarcity, compensation expectations, market shifts, and candidate motivations.
- Advise on realistic sourcing strategies based on market conditions.
- Provide feedback loops to refine role definitions, candidate personas, and outreach messaging.
- Work closely with Embedded Talent Leads and client hiring managers as a true extension of the team.
- Participate in intake sessions, role calibration, and pipeline reviews.
- Be present inside the business to understand product, customers, roadmap, and growth goals.
- Communicate proactively and clearly regarding pipeline health.
Requirements
- 2+ years in Talent Acquisition or Sourcing, ideally starting in high-performance agency/search environments or in the Startup /Scaleup world.
- Demonstrated expert-level sourcing capability across at least one of: Engineering, Product, GTM.
- Significant experience working with startups and scale-ups (Seed–Series B).
- Proven success sourcing in competitive, low-signal markets where talent is scarce.
- Deep familiarity with modern sourcing tools, platforms, and methodologies.
Skills
- Direct sourcing
- Talent acquisition
- Recruitment
- Boolean search
- X-ray search
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Juicebox
- Metaview
- AI sourcing intelligence tools
- Market intelligence
- Data analysis
- Communication
- Collaboration
Location
- Central London (Tottenham Court Road)
Work Type
- Hybrid (2-3 Days a week in office or client sites)
Experience Level
- 2+ years
Salary/Compensations
- £45000
Benefits
- Benefits
About the Company
- Hiring the right people is the single biggest determinant of success for founders and also the most time-consuming, distracting, and inconsistent part of scaling a business.
- At Foundation Partners we exist to give founders confidence that they will consistently access the best possible talent, at the right time, across Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market, without compromising speed, quality, or focus.
- We do this by embedding world-class talent operators into client teams faster than building internal capability, more cost-effective than agencies, and with significantly higher signal-to-noise than traditional recruitment models.