About Light

Light is a Smart Financial Platform (an SFP; not ERP, read our manifesto) set to make it easy, efficient, and transparent for multinational tech companies to manage their finances.

Come join one of Europe's strongest FinTech teams with people from Pleo, Juni, Google, X, AWS, Spotify, Klarna, etc., who are building a new category.

This Talent Acquisition Manager role is focused on

• Owning the end-to-end recruitment process across sourcing, assessment, and closing.

• Partnering with hiring managers and the Head of People to define roles, shape processes, and deliver great hires.

• Building strong candidate pipelines and ensuring a world-class candidate experience.

• Using your network and expertise to deliver exceptional results in either:

  • Developers: hiring top engineering, product, and design talent, or

  • GTM: hiring sales, partnerships, marketing, and customer success talent.

• Running data-driven recruitment: measuring pipeline health, time-to-hire, and quality-of-hire.

• Helping to strengthen Light’s employer brand through outreach, events, and content.

We are hiring two Talent Acquisition Managers. One will focus on developer hiring and the other on GTM hiring. If you have strength in both, even better as the two people will work together as a team.

How you fit into the team

You will be part of Light’s growing People team, working closely with the Head of People and leadership. This is not a classic recruiter role. It is about building scalable pipelines in one of the most competitive markets in Europe, selling Light’s mission, and ensuring we bring in the right talent at the right time.

Your qualifications could be

• 3 to 4 years of experience in Talent Acquisition, ideally in high-growth startups or scale-ups.

• Strong track record in either developer hiring or GTM hiring (sales, marketing, partnerships, customer success).

• Deep networks in your area of expertise and proven success closing top talent.

• Experience running the full recruitment lifecycle from sourcing to offer.

• Strong ability to partner with hiring managers and leadership on role design and decision-making.

• Excellent communication skills: you know how to sell the mission and keep candidates engaged.

• Data-driven mindset: you track and improve pipeline metrics and hiring velocity.
  
  

Bonus points

• Experience hiring and having an already established network in FinTech or SaaS.

• Built or scaled TA functions from 0 to 1.

• Experience with compensation benchmarking and market mapping.

• Exposure to employer branding initiatives.
  
  

Hiring process

1. Intro chat with our Chief of Staff

2. Interview with two future colleagues

3. Case challenge: sourcing and pitch strategy for a hard-to-fill role

4. Discussion on the case with leadership

5. Getting to know each other

6. Founder interview

7. Offer
   
   

Tips to stand out

• Show your network strength in either developer or GTM hiring - do a referral!

• Share examples of hard-to-fill roles you closed and how.

• Be specific: time-to-hire, offer acceptance rates, scaling milestones.

• Tell us why you want to help Light build a world-class team right now.
  
  

While this is the good stuff

In addition to being part of a great team and working in a really fun and innovative environment, we offer:

💸 Competitive salary + stock options in our fast-growing start-up
🍼 Paid parental leave
🏝 25 days of annual leave + public holidays in the UK
🥳 Regular socials and company Starsite off-sites
🚀 A huge opportunity for career growth as you will help shape a market-defining product.

The famous last words

Working at Light means you are embarking on an exciting journey to reshape the future of multinational financial operations. Our cheat-code is that we have built something like this before and are now doing it again, only better. Our goal is to make global finance effortless and empower companies to make informed decisions.

If you are passionate, ambitious, want to build a high-performance culture and have fun while doing it, then we would love to hear from you at careers@light.inc.

🚀 Join the rocket ship while it is taking off 🚀