Founding Talent Partner
About the role
Founding Talent Partner responsible for end-to-end hiring across all functions, building the hiring function, and setting up processes, ATS, and analytics at Saturn, a London-based fintech startup.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end hiring across every function, from intake and sourcing through screening, interview management, offer and close, for technical, commercial and central roles.
- Source and manage a high volume of candidates through direct outreach, referrals, communities, events and market mapping, keeping tight feedback loops with hiring managers and founders.
- Build deep partnerships with the founders and function leaders: run headcount planning, calibrate profiles, challenge assumptions on what “good” looks like, and execute against the hiring plan.
- Take the existing process and make it excellent: structured interview loops per function, scorecards, interviewer calibration and training, and best practice that holds as the team scales.
- Own the ATS end to end. Clean data for reporting, disciplined pipeline hygiene, resurfaced silver medallists, job posts, pre-hire checks, and agency relationships only where they earn their place.
- Own pipeline analytics: funnel conversion, time-to-fill, source effectiveness, interview-to-offer ratios, and offer-acceptance rates. Surface insights weekly to hiring managers, the Head of Operations and the founders.
- Translate data into action: diagnose bottlenecks, recommend interventions, and report results to stakeholders in a format they can act on.
- Develop a deep understanding of the mission, the product and the regulation so you can pitch the opportunity credibly and close people who have other options on the table.
- Run offers with judgement: benchmark the market, advise on levelling and equity, negotiate, and close.
- Build long-range talent strategies grounded in pipeline data, including referral programmes, sourcing channel optimisation, talent pools and process automation.
- Build Saturn’s talent brand alongside the founders and Marketing: content, events, referrals and a story about the problem that makes strong people seek us out.
- Conduct screens with a high signal-to-noise ratio, demonstrated by strong interview-to-offer conversion.
- Drive diverse talent into the company and deliver a candidate experience that holds up regardless of outcome, through proactive and transparent communication.
Qualifications
- 5+ years full-cycle recruiting, including time at a fast-growing Series A or B startup.
- Generalist track record: technical and commercial roles from the same seat, and the speed to get credible in an unfamiliar function fast.
- Expert direct sourcing in competitive markets, with the confidence to approach someone brilliant who has never heard of us, and the resourcefulness to reach people the obvious channels miss.
- Experience managing hiring-manager relationships: profile calibration, weekly pipeline reviews, and data-backed recommendations on strategy and prioritisation.
- Demonstrated ability to use pipeline data to drive decisions, including funnel analysis, conversion benchmarking and source ROI, and to report those insights to senior stakeholders.
- Proven ability to design and improve hiring process: structured interviews, scorecards, interviewer training, and a clean ATS others can rely on for reporting.
- Experience running multiple concurrent funnels and keeping candidates moving without drop-off.
- Exceptional at selling the opportunity, negotiating and closing, with a clear grasp of comp benchmarking and levelling.
- A bar you will defend. You have held a “no” that everyone wanted to be a “yes”, and been right.
- The judgement to challenge. You can tell a founder their profile, process or bar is wrong and have them thank you for it.
- Clear, structured communication with candidates, plus care that outlasts the outcome.
- Desire to write the playbook rather than inherit one, and the long-term thinking to stay and see it pay off.
- No task is beneath you. Bias to action, autonomous, and highly collaborative across a small, fast-moving team.
Skills
Benefits
- Competitive salary with regular appraisals
- Competitive equity package at an early stage company with high growth potential
- Office: Saturn’s five-floor office, The Dome, with onsite gym and roof terrace
- Best-in-class dental and medical insurance
- A dedicated budget for learning and professional development
- Access to an additional world-class gym and wellness centre two minutes from the office
- A tight-knit, ambitious team that cares deeply about quality and each other
About Saturn
Compliance and back office workflows for Wealth Managers.
At Saturn, our mission is to make financial peace of mind more accessible by building the best operating system for wealth managers. Wealth and Asset Management is one of the world’s highest revenue-generating industries, yet it remains painfully inefficient. The sector relies heavily on disjointed legacy systems, manual human tasks, and a complex web of intermediaries, all of which increase costs. Saturn is an AI-powered operating system for wealth management built to automate investment research, streamline operations, and ensure compliance. Saturn creates the best version of truth, empowering investment advisors to work more efficiently, navigate complex regulatory landscapes, and deliver personalised, high-value services to their clients. Today, Saturn supports over 200 firms globally that manage more than £35bn in assets under management (AUM) and over 200,000 clients. As the industry grows, it faces massive operational challenges like bad tech, advisor retirements, regulatory pressure, an increased cost base, and transformational opportunities like great intergenerational wealth transfer and changing consumer needs. Saturn aims to be at the forefront of this transformation, driving the future of wealth management.
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