Recruitment Lead

About the role

The Recruitment Lead will manage the in-house recruiting team while actively participating in recruitment strategy and execution. This role focuses on scaling technical hiring, maintaining a high hiring bar, and ensuring a structured, data-driven interview process. The successful candidate will partner with leadership to optimize hiring infrastructure and deliver on recruitment goals.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of recruiters by setting priorities, conducting 1:1s, and supporting professional development
• Partner with leaders on recruitment strategy and delivery with a focus on scaling technical hiring
• Maintain and improve structured interview infrastructure to ensure a consistent, high-signal process
• Track and report on hiring KPIs and quality-control on pipelines using Ashby workflows
• Act as the escalation point for hiring managers regarding process issues
• Own end-to-end hiring for technical, senior, or niche roles

Required skills

• Recruitment strategy
• Technical hiring
• Team leadership
• Ashby
• Data literacy
• Stakeholder management
• Structured interviewing
• Assessment design

Qualifications

• Extensive recruiting experience at a tech-first company
• Experience hiring mid to senior software engineers
• Experience leading, coaching and developing experienced recruiters

Benefits

• Equity
• Travel Allowance
• Sabbatical Policy
• Electric Car Scheme
• Flexible bank holidays
• Generous family leave
• Volunteering day
• Paid study days
• Pension
• Private healthcare

About the Company

Duffel is rebuilding the infrastructure underpinning the global travel industry by simplifying complex systems. Backed by top-tier investors including Benchmark, Blossom, Index Ventures, and Kima Ventures, the company was born out of Y Combinator.