In this role, you’ll lead recruitment at ISL. We expect to more than double our team over the next year, and much of what we need is quite scarce, with some roles drawing on a talent pool small enough to count. The core of the job is understanding what our technical and research teams need, working out what capacity has to exist and by when, and recruiting to fill it. Our hiring spans infrastructure engineering, technical programme management, research leadership, and the specialist work we contract for, including formal methods, hardware, electrical, and mechanical engineering. That means going deep enough into the work to understand needs, and it means designing the assessments that tell us whether a candidate will succeed.
We’re looking for someone with the judgement to see what a team is missing before anyone has articulated it, and the technical grounding to know who would fix it. That may not come from a career in recruitment. You might have built or grown a technical team or organisation, scoped the roles you then had to fill, or learned to predict which hires would work out.