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Recruitment Lead Duffel · London, United Kingdom
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Recruitment Lead

🗓️ Posted 2026-10-02 London, United Kingdom Fulltime Hybrid Human Resources Recruitment
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 4,500 GBP–6,500 GBP/mo

About the Company

RECRUITMENT LEAD London Full-time Hybrid Shoreditch/Liverpool Street WE'RE MAKING TRAVEL EFFORTLESS. JOIN US. Travel is essential, whether it's visiting family, starting a new adventure, or taking a career defining trip. Yet today, over 4 billion airline passengers rely on tech that hasn't changed in decades. At Duffel, we're rebuilding the infrastructure underpinning the global travel industry. Backed by top-tier investors (Benchmark, Blossom, Index Ventures, and Kima Ventures) and born out of Y Combinator (S18), we're simplifying complex systems to build the future of travel. RECRUITMENT AT DUFFEL We are looking for a Recruitment Lead to both manage our in-house recruiting team and be an on the ground recruiter, partnering with leaders on recruitment strategy and ensuring we maintain a consistently high hiring bar as we scale.

Responsibilities

  • ● Manage a team of recruiters setting workload priorities, running 1:1s, keeping a pulse on pipelines, and supporting their development
  • ● Partner closely with leaders on recruitment strategy and delivery across all functions, with a particular focus on scaling technical hiring
  • ● Maintain and improve a structured interview infrastructure so the whole team runs a consistent, high-signal process
  • ● Use data and insight to ensure a strong recruitment infrastructure, tracking and reporting on hiring KPIs through, quality-control on pipelines, and leaning on Ashby workflows
  • ● Be the escalation point for hiring managers when a process isn't working
  • ● Own end to end hiring, personally running search and building pipelines on technical, senior or niche roles alongside the team
  • ● Extensive recruiting experience at a tech first company, including owning hiring metrics and reporting to senior leaders, not just running requisitions.
  • ● Meaningful experience hiring mid to senior software engineers across the stack, with a clear view of where engineering hiring breaks down: assessment design, competing offers, counter-offers and sourcing by specialism.
  • ● Strong data literacy in Ashby: you can read a hiring funnel and pinpoint where it's breaking using Time to Hire, Time to Fill, stage conversion, offer acceptance and source-of-hire data.
  • ● Confident in forecasting capacity and demand: you can turn a hiring plan into recruiter headcount, lead times and the date each opening needs to go live, and flag early when a plan can't be delivered.
  • ● A strategic, commercially minded approach: you can turn data into a prioritised plan with clear baselines, targets and expected ROI (e.g. agency spend versus in-house capacity).
  • ● A quality-over-quantity mindset, with experience defining and tracking Quality of Hire and using it to steer where you source candidates and how the team hires.
  • ● Adept at building and improving recruitment processes and infrastructure, with a strong grasp of structured interviewing, scorecards and assessment design, and a focus on great candidate and interviewer experiences.
  • ● A champion of clean data and documentation: from interview guides to Ashby set-up (Jobs and Openings, sources, archive reasons). You keep Ashby accurate enough that leaders trust the numbers.
  • ● Excellent stakeholder management: comfortable pushing back on hiring managers and execs with evidence when the plan or process needs it, in a fast-moving, collaborative environment.
  • ● WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING AT DUFFEL
  • ● We believe in true ownership. That's why every permanent employee gets equity in the business.
  • ● Travel Allowance: We literally pay you to get out of town and explore the world.
  • ● Work From Anywhere: Flexibility is built in. Work remotely, or take advantage of our Sabbatical Policy.
  • ● Electric Car Scheme: Roll up in a brand-new EV with eco-friendly tax savings.