Talent Acquisition Lead

BrightLocal Enterprise; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital marketing firm in Brighton seeks a Talent Acquisition Lead to revolutionize recruitment and enhance team growth. The ideal candidate will lead the full recruitment cycle, develop sourcing strategies, and ensure a smooth hiring process while embodying our inclusive culture. This hybrid role offers a flexible work schedule, performance-based bonuses, and a friendly team environment dedicated to personal development and well-being. Join us and help shape the future of our diverse company.

Benefits

Performance-based bonus up to 20%

£1000 personal learning budget

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Vitality Healthcare

3 duvet days per year

Qualifications

• Experience as an internal recruiter in a start-up or SME, ideally in tech.
• Strong track record in hiring for Tech and Product roles.
• Experience recruiting internationally and adapting approaches across markets.

Responsibilities

• Attract, engage, and hire exceptional talent through full recruitment cycle.
• Develop sourcing strategies to connect with talented individuals globally.
• Lead structured interviews and provide guidance for fair hiring decisions.
• Maintain accurate and organized recruitment operations and ATS.

Skills

Organisational design

Communication

Attention to detail

Team collaboration

Tools

Applicant Tracking Systems

LinkedIn Recruiter

Job description

At BrightLocal, we’re on a mission to empower businesses to grow locally. We do this by making growth simple by removing the complexity of local search marketing, enabling local businesses to rise above their competitors and win new customers.

Our culture is built on trust, collaboration, and genuine care for each other’s growth. We’re proud of the team we’ve built so far, and we want the world to know that BrightLocal is an incredible place to work. Our culture should act as a beacon that attracts and retains outstanding people who’ll help make the next ten years even more successful than the last.

As our Talent Acquisition Lead, you’ll use your extensive recruitment experience to help deliver an exceptional hiring journey across all our international teams in the UK, Poland, and the Philippines. You’ll be passionate, thoughtful, and energetic and someone who believes deeply in creating an outstanding experience for every candidate, whether or not they ultimately join the BrightLocal team.

Working as part of the People Team, you’ll play a key role in shaping how we attract, evaluate, and hire team members who will thrive here. You’ll be an ambassador for our culture and beliefs, helping ensure every interaction lives up to the standard we’re proud of.

What you’ll be doing

• Attract, engage, and hire exceptional talent by leading the full recruitment cycle across multiple teams.
• Develop and run thoughtful sourcing strategies that help us connect with brilliant people globally and build strong talent pipelines for the future.
• Lead structured interviews and assessments, providing guidance to hiring managers and helping ensure fair, consistent, and inclusive hiring decisions.
• Keep our recruitment operations running smoothly by maintaining excellent admin and ensuring our ATS is always accurate, organised, and up to date.
• Use data to spot patterns and opportunities, helping us continually improve our hiring approach with insights that actually drive change.
• Partner with managers to co-create clear, compelling, and inclusive job descriptions that support both business needs and candidate attraction.
• Support our onboarding process, working closely with the People Team to ensure new starters have a welcoming, organised, and meaningful introduction to life at BrightLocal.
• Carry out salary benchmarking so we can offer competitive and equitable compensation.
• Be an ambassador for BrightLocal, championing our culture and values in every interaction with candidates and colleagues.

The Perks (The important details)

Salary: Dependant on experience

Performance-based bonus: Up to 20% of base salary (10% company performance + 10% team performance).

Hybrid Working, 2 days a week in our Brighton office for full-time team members, we are able to consider weekly working hours between 30 and 37.5 for this role.

Holiday: 25 days + bank holidays + your birthday off!

Duvet days: 3 duvet days per year

Healthcare: Vitality Healthcare

Learning & Development: £1000 per annum personal learning budget + other development opportunities

We’re looking for someone who:

• Genuinely loves recruitment and gets energy from connecting people with opportunities where they can thrive.
• Feels aligned with our company beliefs and brings warmth, openness, and integrity to every conversation.
• Understands what great organisational design looks like and knows how to build strong, well-balanced teams.
• Communicates with clarity, empathy, and confidence, whether writing a job ad, giving hiring advice, or chatting with a candidate.>
• Thrives in a fast-moving environment, using creativity and good judgment to navigate ambiguity and keep things moving.
• Has brilliant attention to detail and admin skills, ensuring smooth processes and a consistently great candidate experience.
• Is a supportive team player, happy to collaborate, share insights, and contribute positively to the wider People Team as we grow and develop together.

Experience that will help you thrive

• Experience as an internal recruiter within a start-up or SME, ideally in a tech environment.
• A strong track record in hiring for Tech and Product roles.
• Experience recruiting internationally and adapting approaches across markets.
• A solid understanding of full-cycle recruitment and inclusive hiring practices.
• Proficiency with sourcing tools and platforms like LinkedIn Recruiter, social media, search engines, and job aggregators.
• Strong experience working with Applicant Tracking Systems, valuing high-quality data and process efficiency.
• Experience in improving or building recruitment processes in a growing organisation.

About BrightLocal

Founded in 2009, BrightLocal has grown into a powerhouse name in the world of Local SEO and digital marketing. We provide invaluable insights and custom-fit services to big and small brands alike, enabling businesses to understand, develop, and use their Local strategies to help them grow.

We have a very friendly and talented team who live and breathe our company's beliefs. It’s essential that our team enjoys coming to work, whether in our great office (which we ensure is a fun and engaging space) or working remotely.