Senior HR Business Partner
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👥 Human Resources⏰ Full-time⭐ Senior🇬🇧 Smethwick, UK
14h ago
Lazer·3 months ago
Lazer is a world-class digital product studio composed of 180+ senior engineers and designers with backgrounds from companies like Apple, Google, Coinbase, and more. With our product experience, we have designed, engineered, and grown products from $0 to $200M in revenue.
Clients seek out our help because we have the talent to deeply understand their needs and provide industry, technical, or product insights that are uniquely valuable to their efforts. Our clients range from early-stage startups and venture studios to recognizable retail brands and exciting enterprises. Some of our notable clients include Google, Shopify, Coinbase, Alchemy, Hinge, OVO, Polymarket, and more.
We are a remote-first organization headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, with employees worldwide. We believe in providing the best experience possible for all Lazerites by fostering a strong community through regular events, company vacations, competitive compensation, unlimited PTO, and more!
Join Lazer and help us solve problems and build the next generation of products!
Lazer's Fintech practice partners with some of the most ambitious teams in financial software, across payments, lending, capital markets, embedded finance, and AI-native financial products. We still work with leading crypto-native trading and infrastructure projects, but increasingly our footprint is in AI-driven fintech: agents that move money, copilots embedded in trading and lending workflows, LLM-powered underwriting, and intelligent automation across the back office. The bigger story is the convergence: traditional finance platforms are modernizing fast, leveraging AI as a core capability and crypto where it fits, and our practice sits right at that intersection. This space is still being shaped, and the team we hire gets to shape it.
5 to 7 years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience hiring software engineers, with a meaningful chunk of that time spent in fintech or adjacent financial infrastructure (payments, lending, capital markets, embedded finance, financial data platforms), ideally with exposure to AI-native or crypto-native teams
A blended background across in-house and agency or embedded search. You've built pipelines from inside a product company and you've also run external search, so you operate well in both modes
You actively want to use AI in your day to day recruiting work, not just tolerate it. Sourcing agents, automated outreach, AI-assisted screening, and AI-assisted candidate prep are tools you reach for first, and you're constantly experimenting with new ones
Deeply AI-fluent on the candidate side. You can credibly evaluate engineers who are shipping with LLMs, agents, RAG, evals, fine-tuning, and modern AI infrastructure, and you can tell the difference between someone who's truly building with this stack and someone who's just adjacent to it
A real, warm network of fintech and applied AI engineering talent across the US and Canada that you can tap on day one
An exceptional closer who can articulate technical opportunities to skeptical senior engineers and read what actually motivates them
A direct, low-ego operator who is comfortable with ambiguity and a fast-moving environment
A strong written communicator. Your outreach gets opened and replied to because it sounds like a human who did the work, not a templated blast
Own the full hiring funnel for engineering roles across Lazer's Fintech practice, from intake to offer signed, with a particular focus on roles at the intersection of finance and AI
Partner directly with Cofounders and Fintech leadership to translate strategy into a sharp, prioritized hiring plan
Source proactively. The bar is high and most of our hires come from outbound, so you'll be in the trenches building lists, writing thoughtful outreach, and running sourcing sprints
Build and run interview loops that move fast and protect quality, including writing rubrics for AI-heavy roles and coaching interviewers on how to assess applied AI work
Use AI to compound your output. Build sourcing agents, automate the boring parts, and keep raising your own ceiling on what one recruiter can do
Close candidates with substance. Lead reference calls, manage offer negotiations, and get the right people across the line
Bring market signal back to the business: comp benchmarks for AI and fintech engineers, competitive intel, what we're losing candidates on, and what to change
Help shape how we hire as we scale. The playbook you build here gets applied across the rest of the company
AI in our hiring process
We use AI to help us review and shortlist applications based on job-related criteria. A human hiring manager always makes the call on who moves forward. As a company that builds with AI every day, we're all for candidates using it too — just be upfront about how it helped.
Why Work With Us
🚀 Accelerate Your Growth: Work across multiple industries and cutting-edge projects with a team that ships fast.
💥 Maximum Impact: Shape the future of the tech industry by helping ambitious projects reach their potential.
🏅 True Ownership: Everyone ships code and has real autonomy with minimal meetings.
💡 Continuous Learning: Be part of a team of senior engineers and designers who love learning and knowledge sharing.
🤖 You Resist Modern Tools: We leverage AI and cutting-edge technology to build rapidly and focus our energy on solving the most complex, high-impact challenges for our clients.
🏗️ You Crave High Structure: We thrive in an autonomous, fast-moving environment, which means you need to be comfortable with some ambiguity.
😴 You Prefer Conventional Careers: Our consulting approach involves varied projects and direct client interaction — it's not for everyone.
1️⃣ You Like Staying in One Lane: Our projects require adapting to different tech stacks and modern tooling quickly.
🌐 Work From Anywhere: Choose your workspace — all you need is strong wifi and a passion for building!
🧘♂️ Work / Life Balance: We believe in our team’s ability to have it all; a great career, and time to unplug and live…you know...life.
🩺 Employee Care: We provide full benefits (healthcare, dental, vision) for our employees (401k for our US employees)
🏖️ Unlimited PTO: Everyone needs a break. Take at least 15 days off a year, and more if you need—just be cool about it and keep the team in mind.
🎉 Regular Team Retreat: Join us for a week of team bonding at amazing destinations. Recent trips include the Dominican Republic, Cancun, and Hawaii — plus ones welcome.