Talent Sourcer - FTC (3 months)

Our mission

To become the car-changing destination of choice. By combining technology, media and deep automotive expertise, we've turned how people buy, sell, advertise and lease cars on its head.

What started as a simple reviews site is now one of the largest online car-changing destinations in Europe. Last year alone we grew over 50% with nearly £3bn worth of cars bought on site, while £1.8bn of cars were listed for sale through our Sell My Car service.

In 2024 we went big and acquired Autovia - creators of AutoExpress and Evo magazines - doubling our audience overnight. Together we now have one of the biggest YouTube channels in the world with almost 10m subscribers and over 1.1 billion annual views, while we sell 1.2 million print copies of our magazines and have an annual web content reach over 350million.

And we’re a long way from done!

Talent @ Carwow

The Carwow Talent team is small but mighty, having facilitated 200+ hires so far in 2024 as a team of just five. Hot on the back of our $52m Series E fundraise, we’re now preparing for our next period of growth.

We’ve been optimising our ways of working and our tech stack to maximise productivity, leveraging AI and automation and using data to drive decision-making. We’re migrating to Ashby in December and launching Metaview in January so we’ll be working with best-in-class tooling. Now we need to strengthen the team further by adding to it - which is where you come in!

Your mission

We have a lot of great initiatives already lined up for 2025, from EVP and employer branding to getting more involved in the tech community through events, but three of our key objectives are to reduce our time-to-fill, improve our quality of hire and continue to increase diversity - as Talent Sourcer you will be a driving force across each of these goals so your impact will be company-wide.

You will continually build strong, diverse pipelines across all roles on either Tech or non-Tech (we have two roles, one for each), working in partnership with our Talent Partners and hiring stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Sourcing - significantly enhance our candidate attraction by leveraging innovative, data-driven outbound methods and ultilising Ashby’s sourcing automation
• Pipeline strengthening - rapidly and consistently enhance pipelines through the introduction of high-quality, sourced candidates
• ATS mastery - don’t just keep a tidy house, unlock new ways to leverage one of the most powerful ATS’s available today
• DEI - establish goals with your Talent Partner and hiring teams and unlock new sourcing methods to consistently achieve them
• Candidate experience - maintain and enhance our candidate experience. Don’t settle for good enough, work with your hiring teams to make it best-in-class
• Always be improving - as a team we must be continuously improving things, so it is critical that new team members are too
• Reporting - proactively provide accurate data and actionable insights to support reporting, keeping us on the front foot

Key Requirements

• 3+ years’ experience in recruitment, with 1+ years’ internal TA experience in a sourcing role
• Expert sourcing capability - proven experience of a data-driven approach and an ability to build pipelines quickly across a number of roles
• Exceptional writing skills and communicative ability - the right person for this role will have experience in crafting elegant, engaging candidate attraction material
• Be accountable and reliable - we pride ourselves on always doing what we say we will
• A track record of improving processes/ways of working and leaving things in a better state than how you found them

Bonus points:

• Working knowledge of Ashby and/or Metaview

Why this might not be for you: The Carwow Talent team pushes hard, moves fast and we are always challenging ourselves to improve. We deliver on our promises and we care deeply about Talent experience. We’re a scaleup, so naturally we’re constantly unblocking obstacles and managing moving goalposts, with high visibility from the rest of the business. This all works for us because we find it allows us to operate at our limit while continuously developing, but this can also be uncomfortable for some people so we’d rather flag that up front.

Interview Process

• Introductory call get to know each other
• Live sourcing interview with Head of Talent and a member of the Talent team
• Values interview with Director of People & Talent

What’s In It For You?

• 💸 Competitive comp package
• 🌴 28 days' holiday increasing to 35 with length of service, plus extras for house moves, weddings and more!
• 📈 Employee-friendly share options
• 💰 Pension scheme via Royal London - up to 5% company contribution
• ❤️‍🩹 Vitality private healthcare insurance
• 💵 Life Assurance - 4x annual salary
• 💚 Monthly coaching sessions with Spill - our mental wellbeing partner
• 👪 Inclusive parental, partner and shared parental leave including up to 20 weeks' full pay maternity and shared parental leave, and 8 weeks' full partner pay, as well as fertility treatment and pregnancy loss policies
• 🧒🏽 Bubble childcare support and discounted nanny fees for little ones
• 🏖️ 'Work from abroad for a month' annual scheme
• 🧠 Generous learning and development budget
• 🖥️ £500/€550 home office budget

Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, so we welcome those with alternative identities, backgrounds, and experiences to apply for this position. We make recruiting decisions based on experience, skills and potential, so all our applicants are treated fairly and equally.