Powering Great Work

We started as the place to find a trusted trade. Now, as we shape the future of home improvement, we're building the tech to transform that landscape for everyone - better products, smarter data, AI where it actually helps - so trades can spend less time on admin and consumers can find someone they trust, first time. That's Powering Great Work, and it's why every team here exists:

🔧 Trades spend less time on admin and more on winning work and growing their business
🏠 Homeowners get a trusted trade, first time, every time
🚀 We get to build products that change homes and lives across the country

As our GTM Talent Partner, you'll own hiring across a broad commercial area of Checkatrade, partnering closely with our leaders to find the people who'll help us get there.

We're a lean, hands-on Talent team, so this is much bigger than picking up reqs. You'll properly own your space: understanding the business, challenging what we actually need, using data to influence decisions and making our hiring and processes better as you go.

The job, unfiltered:

• Own end-to-end hiring across our GTM organisation, with a particular focus across Sales, Account Management, Revenue and Commercial Operations.

• Get properly under the skin of the areas you support: how they work, how they make money, what they're trying to achieve and the talent they need to get there.

• Partner with senior commercial leaders, building enough trust to challenge a brief, push back on an unrealistic expectation and bring a point of view rather than simply taking an order.

• Run multiple searches at once without losing pace, quality or candidate experience.

• Build strong passive pipelines and talent pools so we're not starting from zero every time a role lands.

• Use data to understand what's actually happening in your hiring. Think pipeline health, application sources, conversion rates, pass-through, rejection themes and market insight - then use it to recommend what we do differently.

• Use AI and modern tooling to make sourcing, screening, analysis and the wider hiring process smarter and more efficient.

• Keep Ashby useful and accurate. We actually use our hiring data to make decisions, so good ATS hygiene matters.

• Spot things that aren't working and help us fix them. You'll have space to improve processes, test new tools and challenge the way we've always done things.

• Get involved in wider TA projects across data, automation, tooling, employer brand and candidate experience.

• Be part of the wider People team, working closely with People Partners and other teams rather than operating in a TA bubble.

Basically, you'll hire great people, but you'll also help us build a better Talent function while you're doing it.

The fit:

The environment you've worked in matters to us. We're particularly keen to meet people who've been in-house in a fast-paced tech, scale-up or high-growth business, ideally as part of a lean Talent team where you've had genuine ownership of an area rather than one small part of the process.

You'll ideally bring:

• Strong in-house Talent experience within a fast-moving tech or high-growth environment.

• Solid GTM/commercial hiring experience, particularly across Sales, Account Management, Revenue or Commercial Operations.

• Experience working in a lean TA environment where you've owned hiring end-to-end and contributed beyond your individual reqs.

• Confidence partnering with senior commercial stakeholders who will challenge you and expect you to know your stuff.

• A genuinely data-led approach. You can use hiring metrics, pipeline data and market insight to diagnose a problem, tell a clear story and influence a decision.

• Strong sourcing skills and the confidence to proactively find great passive talent rather than relying on inbound applications.

• Experience managing multiple priorities in an environment where things move quickly and the brief isn't always perfectly formed.

• Curiosity around AI, automation and new recruiting technology, with hands-on experience using tools to make your work better.

• Strong organisation and communication. You keep things moving and don't let the important stuff fall through the cracks.

• A low ego and high standards. You'll challenge when you need to, take feedback well and care about making the whole team better.

(Don't self-select out because you don't tick every box. We'd rather meet you.)

What you get

💰 Competitive salary, annual bonus & equity scheme
🩺 Health, wellbeing and learning support
🚲 Gym membership, Smart Tech Scheme, Cycle Scheme
🎂 Birthday/special day leave, buy & sell holiday scheme
❤️ 1 week's paid charity leave, and more

How this goes

Talent chat → an initial conversation with our Talent team to get to know each other, give you the full context on Checkatrade and understand what you're looking for next.

1st stage → a deeper conversation around your GTM hiring experience, stakeholder partnering, how you use data and what you've owned in previous Talent teams.

2nd stage → you’ll meet our TA team and People partner to discuss your day to day operating model, and how we work

Final stage → meet more of the team and some of the people you'd actually be partnering with. We'll dig into how you think, how you'd approach some real-life Talent challenges here and give you plenty of opportunity to work out whether we're right for you too.

Not this one? Stay close anyway. Join the Talent Community and we'll ping you the second something better fits.

About us

We’re Checkatrade – the UK’s leading platform for finding a tradesperson. With more than 50,000 trades listed and over 6 million reviews, we help homeowners get jobs done right and help tradespeople grow their business.

We’re growing fast, with big plans to become the go-to brand for home improvements. If you care about great work, take pride in the details, and want to make an impact, you’ll fit right in.