Talent Partner

Everyone at Octopus Energy is super passionate about attracting amazing talent to join us on our exciting journey. Maintaining an excellent candidate experience throughout the entire recruitment journey is key for us.

As we continue to scale across Spain and globally, you’ll have a key role in ensuring we are maintaining the best candidate experience from screening applications and how we attract candidates who want to join us on our mission to tackle climate change.  

To support our incredible growth we need your help to build world class teams. Your role will be to work with the different teams, recruiters and hiring managers, ensuring the talent pipeline for our tech roles are being progressed and supporting candidates through the recruitment phases.

What you'll do

• Partner with different teams to understand role requirements
• Proactively source for key tech roles using our tools and any other creative ways of searching you come up with
• Ensure the best candidate experience whilst working with multiple roles at the same time
• Track pipeline activity via our ATS, Lever, and share data and insights with the team to constantly help improve our efficiency across roles
• Look at different ways to build diverse talent pipelines that support with your sourcing campaigns  
• We all get involved with the detail; ad hoc admin stuff for example, scheduling interviews, following up with candidate contracts, candidate feedback, making sure job postings are up to date etc.

What you'll need

• A passion for delivering a world class candidate experience 
• At least 4 years in a similar position
• Previous experience in a fast paced environment
• Previous experience hiring for non-technology roles and the ability to communicate with tech teams
• Be very organised - have strong time management and prioritising skills, good attention to detail, and able to deliver to tight deadlines
• To be comfortable working with some ambiguity; enjoy mucking in and wearing multiple hats 
• To be a strong team player
• Fluent in English and Spanish

Why else you'll love it here

• Start Date: Immediate
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Work Schedule: Full-time
• Office culture - have a certain tech requirement? We’ll do our best to get it. Our offices are also stocked with fruit, great coffee and snacks. Weekly on a Friday we all get together (this happens virtually too) for company updates and drinks - we call it Family Dinner and on Thursday the local Family Dinner in Valencia
• Our company culture - we won best company to work for in 2019 and our CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people   
• Flexible working environment - genuine work life balance here, we are in the top 5 companies in the UK, we treat you as a human, and do our best to make work and life merge smoothly together 
• Relaxation - we don’t count your holidays here, we work hard, and so we know you need to play hard as well (within reason of course) Free on your birthday.
• Equity Options Scheme - you own your own part of the business, share options in the whole Octopus Energy Group so we all work together towards success 

Why Octopus Energy?

• Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!
• Octopus Energy is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about!