Senior Recruiter (6 Month contract)
Requirements
The role seeks 5–7 years of full-lifecycle recruiting experience, ideally in fintech, a scale-up, an agency, or a corporate environment, and a bachelor’s degree or an advanced degree with at least three years of experience. Candidates should have cross-functional technical and non-technical recruiting expertise, strong stakeholder influence, independent problem-solving ability, and a commitment to inclusive hiring; mentoring experience or willingness is also expected.
Job Description
GoHenry is the money app giving kids a head start in life as they learn to earn, save, spend and invest – all with parental oversight. Having pioneered a new category in financial education when it launched in 2012, over 2.3 million kids have now learnt money skills with GoHenry.
With the ultimate goal to make every kid smart with money, GoHenry believes the best way to learn is to get hands-on experience with money.
We are looking for an immediately available Senior Recruiter (6 months) to manage full-cycle recruitment across a diverse portfolio of functions, including Tech, Product, Legal, Compliance, and Marketing. You will act as an autonomous talent advisor, partnering directly with hiring managers to attract, engage, and hire exceptional, diverse talent to drive our mission forward.
What you'll do at GoHenry:
- End-to-End Recruitment Ownership: Lead full-cycle hiring across varied operational, technical, and corporate areas (including Member Services, Product, Tech, Legal, Compliance, and Marketing), managing requisitions from high-volume operational roles up to senior leadership positions.
- Strategic Stakeholder Advisory: Partner closely with department leaders and hiring managers to define role requirements, educate and persuade partners on talent market dynamics, and deliver data-informed hiring updates.
- Targeted Sourcing & Process Adaptation: Proactively source and engage passive, top-tier talent using multi-channel strategies, adapting and modifying sourcing frameworks to solve complex pipeline roadblocks and build diverse candidate pools.
- Structured Assessment & Selection: Exercise sound judgment in evaluating candidates, adapting assessment techniques to accurately measure both technical competencies and cultural alignment across technical and non-technical domains.
- Exceptional Candidate Experience: Serve as an authentic ambassador for GoHenry’s employer brand, shepherding candidates through an inclusive, transparent, and seamless hiring journey.
- Schedule Interviews: Collaborate with hiring teams to schedule interviews for candidates as they move through the interview pipeline with teams.
- Process Excellence & Peer Guidance: Maintain ATS data integrity, ensure compliance with UK employment laws, and guide or mentor junior TA team members/coordinators during focused hiring sprints or shorter project initiatives.
What you'll bring to GoHenry:
- Proven Experience: 5–7 years of full-lifecycle recruiting experience with a bachelor’s degree (or 3 years with an advanced degree), ideally spanning fast-paced fintech, scale-up, agency, or corporate environments.
- Cross-Functional Scope: Demonstrated expertise in sourcing, evaluating, and closing candidates across both specialized technical tracks (Engineering, Product) and non-technical operational streams (Member Services, Legal, Compliance, Marketing).
- Influence & Persuasion: Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust with senior partners, adapt your communication style to varied audiences, and advise stakeholders on complex hiring decisions.
- Autonomous Problem-Solving: A self-starter mindset with the ability to analyze complex hiring challenges, exercise judgment within established procedures, and adapt recruitment methods independently.
- Mentorship & Collaboration: Experience or willingness to guide, coach, and supervise junior recruitment colleagues on short-term project deliverables.
- Inclusive Hiring Mindset: Dedication to fair, objective, and structured evaluation methods that consistently expand workplace diversity.
What's in it for you?:
All the essentials you would expect, including a workplace pension plan, 33 days of holiday (including public holidays), & great company events local & abroad!
Other Offers:
- GoFlex - Work from Home, Office, or a mix of both
- Your Birthday Day off
- 25 days annual leave, in addition to 8 UK bank holidays
- An excellent Induction & onboarding program with ongoing learning & development throughout your career
- A choice between Bupa Health Cash Plan or Bupa Private Medical
- Death in service – 4x your annual salary from month 1
- Physical and Mental Wellbeing support and platforms for you and your family
- Family-friendly leave policies
- Enhanced maternity leave – 20 weeks full basic pay after 2 years’ service and 26 weeks full basic pay after 3 years’ service
- Paternity leave – 4 weeks full pay after probation
- Salary Sacrifice options
About GoHenry:
We’re on a mission to help every kid be smart with money. Our goal? Create generations of independent, confident young adults, armed with money skills that will set them up for life.
How we do it:
We place the power in the hands of young people, giving them the tools they need to master the financial ropes for themselves. They can spend, save, earn, and give with GoHenry’s prepaid debit card and app – because learning through doing really works (and it’s more fun!). All while our unique built-in controls give parents total peace of mind.
We’re proud to say...
- We ranked #38 in Newsweek's Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in the UK in 2023
- We’re one of Tech Track’s top 50 fastest-growing UK companies.
- We won Finders Kid’s Cards Customer Satisfaction Awards in 2022 and 2023.
- We won the Tech for Good award at the Better Society Awards 2023
- Our kids and parents have donated over £500,000 of their own money to NSPCC via their GoHenry accounts
But we’re still growing, and that’s why we need you.
GoHenry is an equal-opportunity employer, and we’re on a mission to foster a diverse & inclusive workplace. Individuals seeking employment at GoHenry are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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About GoHenry
GoHenry is the money app giving 6-18-year olds a head start in life as they learn to earn, save, spend and invest - all with parental oversight. Having pioneered a new category in financial education when it launched in 2012, over 2.2 million kids have now learnt money skills with GoHenry. With the ultimate goal to make every kid smart with money, GoHenry believes the best way to learn is to get hands-on experience with money. Its parent and child apps help kids to Learn (via in-app, bite-sized money lessons, Money Missions); Earn (via regular chores, one-off tasks and giftlinks); Spend (responsibly via its prepaid debit card and real-time notifications); Save (via savings goals and interest on savings); Give (via regular micro-donations to the NSPCC); and Invest (via GoHenry’s Junior ISA). As a mission-led business, GoHenry is leading the push for financial education to be made compulsory in all schools across the UK from primary age. Follow GoHenry’s journey on LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok (@gohenry).
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