Talent Acquisition Manager (AI Infrastructure)

Company: WNTD Location: London Type: Permanent Working: Hybrid Salary: £90,000 – £140,000

Role Overview

We are recruiting on behalf of a stealth-mode AI infrastructure platform launching next month.

Backed by significant investment and working in close partnership with NVIDIA, this platform is being built to deliver AI compute at industrial scale.

This is a build environment.

We are looking for a hands-on Talent Acquisition Manager who is comfortable operating as a headhunter, building pipelines from scratch and hiring high-calibre engineering talent in competitive markets.

Important

This role is not suited to profiles who rely on inbound applications or process-driven recruitment.

You must have direct experience sourcing and hiring engineers through headhunting.

What You Will Be Hiring

You will lead hiring across:

Software Engineers
Platform / Infrastructure Engineers
Product Managers
Engineering Leads

Key Responsibilities

Own end-to-end hiring across engineering and product roles
Build pipelines from scratch through direct sourcing and market mapping
Engage and convert passive candidates in competitive AI and cloud markets
Partner closely with engineering leadership to define hiring requirements
Deliver against multiple technical roles in a fast-moving environment

Required Experience

Proven experience hiring Software Engineers and Platform Engineers directly
Strong headhunting capability with evidence of sourcing passive candidates
Experience hiring in cloud, AI, infrastructure or high-growth tech environments
Ability to assess technical talent and differentiate high-calibre engineers
Comfortable operating in an early-stage or scaling environment

Nice to Have

Experience hiring in infrastructure-heavy or compute platforms
Exposure to AI, distributed systems or high-performance environments
Experience in early-stage or stealth environments