Remote Talent and Agile Executive
5 days ago
Birmingham
Job title: Talent and Agile Executive Location: London (Hybrid) About Bolt Insight Bolt Insight is a fast-growing consumer insights start-up building AI-powered research products, including BoltChatAI (AI-moderated qualitative research at scale) and quantitative capabilities via BoltQ – helping teams get high-quality consumer insight faster and across global markets. We’re scaling quickly, which means high hiring volume, pace, and loads of opportunities to learn, influence, and grow. Role summary As a Talent and Agile Executive, you’ll help deliver a high-volume recruitment pipeline across multiple functions while keeping candidate experience high and processes tight. You’ll also bring an Agile coaching element to the TA function – helping us run hiring like a well-oiled product team: visible workflow, smart prioritisation, fast feedback, and continuous improvement. You don’t need to be an “Agile Coach.” You do need to be organised, people-savvy, data-aware, and comfortable facilitating simple team ways-of-working. Role and responsibilities • Support end-to-end hiring across multiple open roles at once (often 10+ requisitions depending on business demand), from intake to offer, • Coordinate and optimise high-throughput scheduling: screening calls, hiring manager interviews, panels, and debriefs – keeping everything moving, • Source proactively (LinkedIn, job boards, referrals, talent pools) and deliver shortlists aligned to role needs, • Drive structured screening: consistent notes, scorecards, and efficient candidate summaries for fast decisions, • Maintain pristine ATS hygiene and on-time stakeholder comms (pipeline updates, next steps, feedback chasing), • Keep candidate experience excellent: clear expectations, fast responses, thoughtful rejections, and smooth offer coordination, • Support employer brand activity (postings, events, messaging) in line with Bolt Insight’s mission and growth, • Maintain, quality-check, and regularly update Talent Acquisition tracking spreadsheets to ensure accurate, timely visibility of recruitment activity, pipeline health, and progress against hiring goals, • Consolidate inputs from relevant stakeholders, monitor key metrics and milestones, and highlight risks, blockers, and priority actions, • Produce clear summaries and present structured updates to the wider HR team, translating data into insights and recommendations to support workforce planning and decision-making The Agile ways-of-working element (ways of working in TA) You’ll help the TA team and hiring managers work in a more “Agile” way: • Run lightweight weekly planning (role priorities, capacity, risks) and short check-ins to unblock the team, • Maintain a clear hiring workflow board to visualise roles, candidate stages, bottlenecks, and WIP limits, • Track and share simple flow metrics: time-to-hire, stage conversion, bottleneck stages, interview-to-offer time, candidate satisfaction signals, • Observe workflow & team dynamics to spot bottlenecks within teams, • Facilitate retrospectives and turn insights into owned actions, • Coach Agile/Lean practices and improve workflow, • Partner with leadership on priorities and outcomes We will support in teaching you what you need to know for the Agile element! What success looks like (first 3–6 months) • You’re confidently running multiple roles in parallel without drops, delays, or messy handoffs, • Interview scheduling and feedback loops are faster, clearer, and calmer, • Hiring managers trust the process because it’s structured, transparent, and prioritised, • The TA team has a visible cadence: plan → execute → retro → improve Skills & Experience Must have: • 0-2 years’ experience in recruitment / talent coordination / HR / agency resourcing / high-contact operations (internships / graduates welcome), • Strong organisation, attention to detail, and comfort juggling many moving parts, • Confident stakeholder communication (you can chase feedback without being a menace), • Data comfort: spreadsheets, ATS reports, pipeline tracking Nice to have: • Experience running team rituals (stand-ups, weekly planning, retros), • High-volume hiring experience (or high-volume scheduling/coordination in any setting), • Interest in tech/product/AI environments Behaviours We Value • Candidate-first, pace-friendly, and unflappable, • Proactive: you spot blockers early and fix or escalate fast, • Improvement mindset: you simplify and standardise without making things bureaucratic, • Collaborative: you build trust across hiring managers, candidates, and teammates, • Growth: we’re always looking for candidates to join the company and grow their skills and knowledge – depending on your experience, this role can grow into a Senior Talent Partner, or Agile Lead as potential career paths! Tools (Typical) • ATS (TeamTailor), • LinkedIn Recruiter, • Microsoft 365 Why join Bolt Insight? • Join a growing startup where hiring directly shapes the product and the company., • Real ownership early: you’ll influence how we hire, not just “admin the process.”, • Work close to teams building AI-powered consumer insight products like BoltChatAI / BoltQ