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Griffin Hiring for Talent Partner: Product and Engineering Job at London, England Full Time
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About Griffin
Finance is only relevant in context. People don’t take out a loan in order to take out a loan; they take out a loan to refurbish a home, expand their business to a new location, or otherwise achieve a goal that happens to require a substantial amount of money.
Technology is increasingly enabling companies to embed finance at the point where it is most relevant and contextual. This is a trend that is well under way, and we’re heading towards a future where people and firms get most of their financial services and products from technology companies and other non-bank firms, rather than high street banks.
The problem is that bringing a financial product to market is still incredibly hard.
Griffin exists to help make it easy for companies to offer financial products. We are currently seeking authorisation to become a bank, so that we can provide accounts, payments and loans to our customers.
Culture
We are highly intentional about our culture, and look to define it both by who we are (core values) and by how we work (core behaviours). We won’t hire people who aren’t a good fit for our culture, even if they’re otherwise qualified.
We’re looking for thoughtful people who don’t give up easily and who strive to be kind in their words and actions. As product designers, we are always looking for ways to simplify complex things and we take security very seriously. As a financial institution, we believe that our customers’ trust is our single most valuable asset and we will go above and beyond to earn and keep it. We are transparent by default.
You can learn more about our culture and values on our website.
The People and Talent team
The People and Talent team is on a mission to build, support and nurture teams that are effective and engaged. You could be the fourth person to join the team, working closely with our Talent Manager (Joe), our VP Engineering (James) and VP of Product (Chris) to help us build teams that can achieve exceptional things together.
Who are you
You should apply for this role if you have:
- Experience of hiring talented technologist, either on your own or within a small team in a scaling startup.
- A track record of working with hiring managers to build teams from the ground up: starting with limited resources and strict requirements, and iterating the approach as the team grows.
- Experience taking accountability of hiring for an entire business area
- Expert sourcing skills, through conventional and creative channels
- A strong technical understanding of the products you have worked on
- A proactive approach to making fintech more intersectionally diverse
- A desire to build a best in class hiring process both in terms of candidate experience and hiring efficiency
We’re hybrid-remote, and most of your colleagues will not share an office with you on a day-to-day basis. This means you should also have:
- A high degree of comfort adopting new software tools for document drafting, collaboration and communication.
- A love of writing – we have a major amount of written documentation that you will be contributing to, and we place a high degree of importance on clarity and readability (you can find out more here about how we write )
What will you be doing here?
As a Talent Partner at Griffin, you will help us efficiently and thoughtfully enable our engineering and product teams by ensuring that we’re able to hire the people we need. This means you will:
- own our engineering and product pipelines to help us build a world class engineering team
- source and interview outstanding technical talent
- engage with the broader community and develop our reputation
- partner with our hiring managers and interviewers, constantly looking to iterate and improve our processes. This includes looking into entry level, pivot and return to work pathways.
- own the candidate experience for your business area whilst working with the rest of the people and talent team for consistency (but not uniformity!)
We’re keen to help you develop your career: we’ll provide you with mentorship and training, and you will be able to get involved in broader projects like building entry-level career programmes, developing our diversity & inclusion strategies, improving our hiring processes, and supporting with broader people initiatives.
What can we offer you?
We are an early stage startup and we’re working hard to expand our benefits package. We’re planning to add to this list in the future
- 25 days off a year + bank holidays
- Flexible, remote-friendly working – including supporting home office setup
- Tax-advantaged stock options under HMRC’s Company Share Option Plan (CSOP)
- Auto-enrolment into company pension scheme
- Enhanced parental leave with up to 6 months at full pay
- Private medical insurance and life insurance (provided by AXA and AIG respectively)
- A weekly team lunch on Griffin (even when you’re working remotely)
How do I apply?
Please include a cover letter, a resume and a link to your online portfolio where appropriate. We cannot review applications without these. If there’s a match our Talent team will reach out to schedule an initial conversation and talk you through our interview process in detail
N.B: We have a small London office in Moorgate, and we are comfortable hiring people to work from anywhere in the UK. About half of the company is based within occasional commuting distance of London, the other half is full-time remote.
If you’re part of a group that is under-represented or marginalised in fintech, we’d love to hear from you. Our goal is for Griffin to proportionally represent the diversity of the working population in society. We’re working to ensure that Griffin is a supportive, empowering and inclusive environment for every member of our team — whatever your intersection of identities & background.