{"id":1708943,"url":"https://alion.io/job/duffel-recruitment-lead","title":"Recruitment Lead","company":{"id":8528,"name":"Duffel","domain":"duffel.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/duffel","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":92,"open_postings":3,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.333,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":52,"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"HR","role_family":"HR","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":74000,"max_usd":144000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":32},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Rollup","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-02T08:59:34Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-02","last_verified_at":"2026-10-19T01:00:55Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":16,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":16},"description":"Recruitment Lead\nLondon | Full-time | Hybrid | Shoreditch/Liverpool Street\nWe’re Making Travel Effortless. Join Us.\nTravel is essential, whether it’s visiting family, starting a new adventure, or taking a career defining trip. Yet today, over 4 billion airline passengers rely on tech that hasn't changed in decades.\nAt Duffel, we’re rebuilding the infrastructure underpinning the global travel industry. Backed by top-tier investors (Benchmark, Blossom, Index Ventures, and Kima Ventures) and born out of Y Combinator (S18), we’re simplifying complex systems to build the future of travel.\nRecruitment at Duffel\nWe are looking for a Recruitment Lead to both manage our in-house recruiting team and be an on the ground recruiter, partnering with leaders on recruitment strategy and ensuring we maintain a consistently high hiring bar as we scale.\nAbout the role:\nWhat you’ll be doing:\nManage a team of recruiters setting workload priorities, running 1:1s, keeping a pulse on pipelines, and supporting their development\n\nPartner closely with leaders on recruitment strategy and delivery across all functions, with a particular focus on scaling technical hiring\n\nMaintain and improve a structured interview infrastructure so the whole team runs a consistent, high-signal process\n\nUse data and insight to ensure a strong recruitment infrastructure, tracking and reporting on hiring KPIs through, quality-control on pipelines, and leaning on Ashby workflows\n\nBe the escalation point for hiring managers when a process isn't working\n\nOwn end to end hiring, personally running search and building pipelines on technical, senior or niche roles alongside the team\n\nWhat we're looking for:\nExtensive recruiting experience at a tech first company, including owning hiring metrics and reporting to senior leaders, not just running requisitions.\n\nMeaningful experience hiring mid to senior software engineers across the stack, with a clear view of where engineering hiring breaks down: assessment design, competing offers, counter-offers and sourcing by specialism.\n\nExperience leading, coaching and developing experienced recruiters, including planning team capacity against a hiring plan and rebalancing workload, rather than managing day to day.\n\nStrong data literacy in Ashby: you can read a hiring funnel and pinpoint where it's breaking using Time to Hire, Time to Fill, stage conversion, offer acceptance and source-of-hire data.\n\nConfident in forecasting capacity and demand: you can turn a hiring plan into recruiter headcount, lead times and the date each opening needs to go live, and flag early when a plan can't be delivered.\n\nA strategic, commercially minded approach: you can turn data into a prioritised plan with clear baselines, targets and expected ROI (e.g. agency spend versus in-house capacity).\n\nA quality-over-quantity mindset, with experience defining and tracking Quality of Hire and using it to steer where you source candidates and how the team hires.\n\nAdept at building and improving recruitment processes and infrastructure, with a strong grasp of structured interviewing, scorecards and assessment design, and a focus on great candidate and interviewer experiences.\n\nA champion of clean data and documentation: from interview guides to Ashby set-up (Jobs and Openings, sources, archive reasons). You keep Ashby accurate enough that leaders trust the numbers.\n\nExcellent stakeholder management: comfortable pushing back on hiring managers and execs with evidence when the plan or process needs it, in a fast-moving, collaborative environment.\n\nWhy You’ll Love Working at Duffel\nWe believe in true ownership. That’s why every permanent employee gets equity in the business.\nTravel Allowance: We literally pay you to get out of town and explore the world.\nWork From Anywhere: Flexibility is built in. Work remotely, or take advantage of our Sabbatical Policy.\nElectric Car Scheme: Roll up in a brand-new EV with eco-friendly tax savings.\nWork-Life Harmony: Flexible bank holidays, generous family leave, and a dedicated volunteering day.\nGrowth Tools: Paid study days to level up your skills, plus a solid pension and cycle-to-work scheme.\nHealth & Wellbeing: Private healthcare, eye test cover, and season ticket loans.\nFamily Leave (maternity, paternity and adoption)\nThe Details\nLocation: Shoreditch, London (Hybrid: In-office Tuesdays & Thursdays).\nInterview Process:\nRecruiter Screen\n\nHiring Manager Chat\n\nTechnical Case Study\n\nFinal Stage Interview\n\nWe are an equal opportunities employer. We believe that the key to our success is employing a diverse team, that's why recruitment decisions are only based on your experience and skills. We value your ability to problem solve and build amazing things so we welcome applications for everyone - regardless of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.\n Note to recruitment agencies Duffel does not accept speculative CV's from external parties. Any unsolicited CV's sent to us will be treated as property of Duffel, and any attached terms and conditions associated with these CV's will be null and void.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5098,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Travel Technology"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-02T16:26:49Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":14,"expected_fill_days":52,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/duffel-recruitment-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/duffel-recruitment-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-19T02:29:10Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1318,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-20T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":8528},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=8528"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fduffel-recruitment-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fduffel-recruitment-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fduffel-recruitment-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/duffel-recruitment-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fduffel-recruitment-lead"}]}