Senior Recruiter, Engineering

Omnea • Full-time • Remote (London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom) • £70k - £90k / year • 1d ago

Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs

This Senior Recruiter, Engineering role stands out in the SaaS ecosystem because it sits at the intersection of product delivery and company-building. The remit is narrowly focused on engineering hiring, with direct partnership with engineering leadership and ownership of the full hiring lifecycle. In SaaS businesses where roadmap execution and reliability depend on team composition, this kind of specialist recruiting seat is a core operational lever rather than a support function.

For a long-term SaaS career, the role offers durable leverage: building repeatable hiring motions for senior product engineers, using pipeline metrics to steer decisions, and shaping how a technical organisation presents itself to scarce talent. Those skills transfer across SaaS categories because they map to common scaling constraints, namely hiring quality, process design, and candidate experience in competitive markets.

This position is best suited to a recruiter who prefers deep craft over breadth and wants clear accountability for outcomes. It will fit someone comfortable operating with autonomy, engaging credibly with senior engineers, and iterating on process based on data rather than policy. It also aligns with professionals who value hybrid collaboration while running end-to-end searches.

The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.

Job Description

Our Mission

At Omnea, we’re reinventing how enterprise businesses operate, starting with the most painful parts: procurement – where a single purchase can drag on for months, trigger 50+ emails, and pull in Finance, Legal, Security, and IT just to get something approved.

We’ve raised $75M from Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners, and Accel to change that. Our AI-native platform connects every person, step, and system so buying is fast, safe, and efficient – one place to request, automated approvals and renewals, real-time supplier risk, and complete spend visibility.

The opportunity is massive. Every enterprise on the planet has this problem and nobody has solved it. We’ve 10x’d ARR to double-digit millions in 18 months and are trusted by global enterprises like Spotify, MongoDB, Monzo, and Albertsons. We’re now the 4th fastest growing startup in Europe & the Sunday Times' #1 Best Medium Sized Tech Company To Work for.

Our team previously scaled Tessian (cybersecurity tech, backed by Sequoia, Balderton, Accel, acquired post-Series C), and our team includes ex-founders operators who’ve grown unicorns, shipped world-class products, and executed at the highest levels. You’ll work alongside leaders like Ben, Abs, Sabrina, and Rebe.

Find out more about the team and life at Omnea here.

The Role

We’re seeking a specialist engineering recruiter to lead engineering hiring at Omnea - not a generalist talent lead. We want someone who has deeply immersed themselves in engineering recruitment, understands the London market inside and out, and has played a key role in scaling an engineering team from 20 to 100+ engineers.

You’ll work directly with engineering leadership, enjoying full autonomy over the hiring process. You’ll own sourcing, pipeline management, the hiring process, and the candidate experience from start to finish.

This is a high-impact, high-visibility role. Every hire you make will directly influence the company’s trajectory.

What You'll Do

Lead end-to-end engineering hiring across Omnea’s 10 engineering teams

Source, engage, and recruit Senior product engineers in London’s highly competitive market
Build and maintain a warm pipeline of passive candidates—the best engineers are rarely on the market
Shape and champion the engineering EVP
Partner with engineering leadership to define and uphold a high hiring standard, even as we grow quickly
Design and refine the hiring process to reduce time-to-hire without compromising on quality
Think creatively about Omnea’s presence to candidates, including brand, content, community, and events
Own your pipeline metrics and know your numbers

What We're Looking For

3+ years in an engineering-focused agency

2+ years in-house at a respected, fast-paced London tech startup dedicated to engineering hiring
Experience scaling an engineering team from around 20 to over 100 engineers
At least 5 years of engineering hiring experience in total
Deep knowledge of London’s competitive engineering market
A track record of hiring to a very high standard—think Monzo, Attio, incident.io, PostHog, Paddle level
Active contributions to an engineering EVP
Ability to have informed, credible conversations with Senior and Staff-level product engineers about why Omnea is worth their time

This role isn’t for you if:

You’ve only hired engineers as part of a generalist remit

You haven’t worked in-house at a high-standard London tech startup
You require extensive process infrastructure to operate effectively

Learn More

For a deeper look at our engineering team, culture, and interview process, visit our R&D Candidate Hub: https://omnea.notion.site/R-D-Candidate-Hub-2f688cce658780f1b942c81cd3a032d4

Interview Process

Stage 1: Initial screen (30 mins, remote)

Stage 2: Hiring manager screen (30 mins, remote)
Stage 3: Take-home challenge followed by a challenge review (45 mins, remote)
Stage 4: In-person with Head of Talent and CFO/COO, and coffee with an Omnea engineer
Stage 5: Final interview with CEO & Co-Founder

At Omnea, we embrace diversity. To build a product that's loved by everyone, we're best served by a team with all sorts of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't quite match the full job spec! And regardless of your race, religion, colour, gender, or anything else! If you think you could be a good fit for Omnea, please reach out.

A few things to note:

We offer competitive geo-localised benefits, and you can check out our UK Benefits Package here and our US Benefits Package here.
We work Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays in-person at our offices. At this early stage of our company life-cycle it's important to us that we get this together-time, and you can read more about why we believe this is a winning move here
We're commercial, ambitious and we don't pretend otherwise! We're actively seeking folks looking to make the most of a career-defining opportunity, with the hunger to be part of building something really impressive. You can see our values here
We sometimes use AI note-takers to help us transcribe interview notes, so we can be more present in your interview. If you'd like to opt out of us using automatic transcribers, please note this in the free text field in your application, otherwise we'll take your application as confirmation that you're happy for us to use notetakers (whether added to video calls or in the background).

We are proud to be recognised for both our culture and product, and we are just getting started. Join us as we grow!