Wayhome Hiring for Talent Partner Job at Remote Full Time

Before we start: a lot of research shows that men apply to jobs when they feel they hit around 60% of the criteria… but women and marginalised groups tend to only apply if they hit every single ask Our job ads are a guide, but we won’t be looking for a 100% match on paper! We’re interested in hearing about how you can contribute to our team, not just tick the boxes.

We don’t have internal JDs so our job ads are a little more detailed than usual too as we want you to be able to make a fully informed (and excited!) choice to apply. The Mission At Wayhome we’re addressing one of the biggest and most life-changing problems our customers have: how they can get the security and freedom of homeownership.

We offer

• Salary £40,000 – £50,000 based on experience ✨
• Unlimited holiday (minimum 28 day/year)
• A learning budget of up to £600 per year
• A Macbook and other work-from-home essential equipment
• Cycle to work scheme
• An office in Bank with all the WeWork bells and whistles – although…

Remote working

We’re optimising for the majority of our team to be working remotely, coming into the office for key meetings or workshops only. We have a (dog-friendly) office in central London if you’re unable to work from home, or just prefer the buzz of a co-working space, but we’re keen to provide an experience that works for everyone. If there is a specific way you want to work or you have particular requirements, let us know: we’re always open to discussing it.

The Team

At Wayhome, you’ll be joining a talented team of purpose-led and ambitious individuals, dedicated to reinventing homeownership the right way. You’ll find us super collaborative, focused on levelling up (ourselves and our work), high-challenge, and fast-paced, although we always find time to make each other laugh. You will be supported by your colleagues when you need it, and be left to get on with it when you don’t.

We’re in the midst of fundraising for our Series A, purchasing more homes with our customers each day, and growing the business left, right, and centre. Post funding (expected to land in the Summer ), we’ll be looking to grow from ~70 to ~100 this year, with rapid scaling to follow. You’ll be reporting to our Head of People as the second member of the People team, although we have plans to hire across people ops and partnering next quarter.

How you’ll spend your time

TLDR: as our first dedicated talent specialist, you’ll fully own the entire recruitment lifecycle. Our Head of People is high-trust and will empower you to shape your work as you see best, in line with our business objectives and your growth plan. Oh, and do some hands-on hiring ofc

We see this including:

• Own the continuous improvement of our talent processes, including attraction, interviewing and offers
• Build strong relationships with our team leads, helping them shape future hiring needs and refine their requirements
• Enable and encourage our Wayhomies to provide the best candidate experience possible
• Drive objectivity in our recruitment, educating and inspiring our team to check their biases, challenge their assumptions and open their minds to diverse talent (we’re already pretty good but there is always room to grow here!)
• Manage the hands-on recruitment across all teams – predicted high growth areas will be: product management, engineering, marketing
• Introduce talent reporting, collecting meaningful data and turning it into impactful actions
• Introduce intentional employer brand focus / activity
• Work with our Head of People to allocate our recruitment budget where needed

We’d love to see

We don’t expect everyone to be all of the things, but the list below acts as a guide to both show you our priorities and beliefs, and to help us narrow down any applications. We’re interested in how you think you can contribute to Wayhome outside of these too.

You’ll:

• Be excited by the idea of small iterations, tweaking a process to make it as effective and efficient as possible in line with our culture of experimentation
• Care deeply about candidate experience, and respect the fact recruitment truly impacts people’s lives
• Be eager to get stuck into some hands-on recruitment across varied (and sometimes very niche!) roles
• Want to form purposeful relationships with key stakeholders across the business, ready to dive deep, collaborate with intent and drive a seamless process
• Be energised by the start-up environment: chaotic, ever-changing and a playground to try new things.

Other, more particular things we’d be interested in but are not in any way decision-makers:

• experience in fintech / proptech
• experience implementing low-budget employer brand activity for startups

Our process

We aim to get back to all applications within 48 hours (weekends excepted). Our interview process will be:

• Phone screen with our Head of People
• More in-depth competency interview to uncover more about your experience, approach and the environment that will get the best from you
• A collaboration task, working with our managers. Details tbc!
• A meet the team with various Wayhomies across the business.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK as we are currently unable to offer sponsorship. We currently have no plans to work with recruiters on this role, so no recruiters please.