Talent Director

We are Multiverse, a tech scaleup with a social mission. We’re creating a diverse group of future leaders by building an outstanding alternative to university and corporate training, through the power of professional apprenticeships.

We’re one of the fastest-growing businesses in Europe and rapidly expanding in North America, working with over 500 clients including McKinsey & Co, Morgan Stanley, Verizon and Visa. In June 2022, we broke the EdTech funding record (again!) by announcing our $220m Series D, making Multiverse the UK’s first ever EdTech unicorn.

Join us on our journey to democratising access to the best careers and learning opportunities.

Requirements

You will play a pivotal role in scaling a business of exceptional talent by championing recruiting and accelerating its success. You will work alongside other company leaders to proactively design, build and drive this growth. Leadership, management, and relationship-building skills are critical for the success of this position as you will head up a large, growing, and geographically dispersed Talent Acquisition team.

Our hiring needs span across a variety of sectors:

• Learning and delivery - Coaching roles and learning design/experience
• Product - Building out our platform with product managers, learning and engineering
• Go to market- Growing a world-class sales, customer success, and marketing team
• G&A - including legal, finance, and people operations

We’re currently 600 people (70 US/ 530UK) with a 50% headcount on delivery (coaches), 15% on GTM, 10% on ProdTech, 10% Learning (Tech and Learning will increase significantly this year). Our average time to fill is 45 days and we have a 95% acceptance rate.

We hired >200 people in the last 2 quarters and are set to increase this to 150/quarter this financial year.

Responsibilities

• Utilise your subject matter expertise in recruitment to lead the charge in Talent Acquisition
• Develop and deliver on Talent Acquisition strategy, while staying hyper-focused on driving execution and keeping hiring goals top of mind
• Be a savvy operator that drives with data - knowing what levers to pull thinking creatively and innovatively, maximising the tools and assets we have, whilst keeping up to date with new technologies
• A change champion, helping the Talent Acquisition team and the business evolve behaviours in order to meet the ever-changing talent landscape
• With your breadth and depth of recruitment experience and skill sets, build upon a talented team of recruiters that work efficiently to hit big targets (100-150 hires/quarter) whilst never compromising on excellent candidate experiences
• Stay close to Talent Acquisition’s operations at all times and use metrics and data to derive insights and drive process improvement
• Stay informed and keep abreast of market trends to advise and educate business partners

Requirements

• A passion for the Multiverse mission and with this creating accessible and equitable hiring processes, at scale
• Demonstrated experience in hiring exceptional talent in environments with high bars
• Demonstrable experience in operating a Recruiting function within a geographically dispersed, fast-paced, scale-up environment
• Must have experience managing recruiting teams that hit large annual recruiting targets
• Knowledge in scaling organisations, creating rigor around hiring process and protocols
• Excellent at influencing and collaborating at all levels of the organization
• Must be a great people leader, communicator, and facilitator

Benefits

What’s in it for you?

• Time off - 27 days holiday, plus 6 additional days off: 1 life event day, 1 volunteer day and 4 company-wide wellbeing days
• Health & wellbeing - private medical Insurance with Bupa, a medical cashback scheme, life insurance, and access to Spill - all in one mental health support
• Hybrid & remote working - weekly visits to the London office
• Equity - every Multiverser has ownership in the business through equity options
• Team fun - weekly socials and regular offsite events
  
  

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We’re an equal opportunities employer. And proud of it. Every applicant and employee is afforded the same opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. This will never change.

Right to work
Do you have the right to work in the UK? Unfortunately, at this time we cannot offer sponsorship for this role and we cannot consider overseas applications.

Safeguarding
All posts in Multiverse involve some degree of responsibility for safeguarding. Successful applicants are required to complete a Disclosure Form from the Disclosure and Barring Service ("DBS") for the position. Failure to declare any convictions (that are not subject to DBS filtering) may disqualify a candidate for appointment or result in summary dismissal if the discrepancy comes to light subsequently.