About The Role

Talent Acquisition Lead

📍 Manchester, UK (Hybrid 4 days WFH) | 💰 £60,000 - £70,000

Street Group is scaling fast toward an ambitious growth plan, and hiring is about to get harder: more senior roles, a higher bar, and a market where the best people don't apply; they get found and won. We need someone who owns how we hire, not just who we hire.

We're looking for a TA Specialist with a truly commercial mindset. Skilled at your craft - able to land the hardest hires yourself, but also understanding what will make a whole team better at hiring - from candidate attraction to relationship building; employer brand to candidate experience.

WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS NOW

Our recruiting team is strong but stacked - and as we get busier, there’s no real capacity to ensure we’re constantly innovating and improving the mechanisms that let us hire quality people at pace. We’ve recently raised investment, and have ambitious goals to achieve - now is the time to fine-tune our recruiting engine so we can scale effectively over the next few years.

THE ROLE

This is a role of two halves. The first half is hands-on delivery. IC L5s at Street Group are expected to confidently own the hardest searches - senior roles, niche roles, brand new roles we’ve no experience hiring for. You’ll be expected to understand how the roles you’re hiring for tie in to commercial goals, what to prioritise and why. When you run into issues, you investigate, gather qualitative and quantitative data, conduct market research, and ultimately develop solutions to solve your own problems. You share your knowledge with the team in ways that bring them on the journey - not just the “what and how” but the strong “why” behind it.

The second half is taking our TA function from great to exceptional. Candidate experience, employer brand, AI, tooling, sourcing strategy, assessment - we do all of them well already, but our team holds ourselves to a high standard - and we want to do it all exceptionally well. You’ll collaborate with our Head of People on the most impactful initiatives to prioritise - the what, why, why now, and how it will be achieved and measured. We expect you to be passionate about TA; part of communities, intrigued by industry trends, new tools, best practices, and what other companies are nailing (and making sure we do it even better).

GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES

The business and People team will grow significantly over the next few years, and there is potential for this role to grow into a management role or specialise in a specific area, but the initial focus and goals will be hands-on, IC L5 work as mentioned above.

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

A senior recruiter with deep expertise across the full lifecycle, and the outside-in view: what the market's doing, what great TA teams do, and what it means for us.
Someone who holds themselves to a high standard - e.g. measuring their results against quality of hire rather than hires made.
Someone whose judgement colleagues calibrate against, trusted with delivering the most senior and confidential searches without a steer.
An AI-native mindset: you treat AI as leverage and are keen to learn from our team, and share what’s been working for you.
The credibility and communication skills to challenge a department head on a bad hiring decision, deliver hard market news to leadership, and come out with the relationship stronger.
Someone who makes the team better on purpose, not by accident: you share what you know and help develop the people around you.

WHY YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO APPLY

We'd rather be honest up front, because this role won’t be for everyone.

If you want to move into people management now. This is a senior IC role. You'll coach, share knowledge, and set standards, but you won't have direct reports on day one, and you'll still be carrying reqs yourself. If a management title is what you're chasing now or in the imminent future, this isn’t the job for you.
If you're a brilliant solo recruiter but you don't have a history of lifting up the people around you. This role will impact how our entire TA function operates, and evidence of knowledge sharing from prior roles will be assessed during the interview process.
If AI feels like a threat rather than a tool. We love Claude Cowork, and have both built and used multiple other tools to improve and speed up our ways of working. We have a company-wide expectation that AI is utilised, so it will be a large part of this role.
If you tend to report the problems you’re facing in searches. We need someone who spots the funnel stage quietly losing good candidates, or the hiring plan the market won't support, and fixes it before anyone flags it. At IC L5, we don’t expect your manager to be the one flagging problems or coming up with solutions for you.
If you like to just crack on with recruitment. Connect with us and join the Talent MCR meetup - we’d love to connect - but this role will be expected to do more than just deliver.

If that list sounds like your kind of role, please apply and let us know why!

We recognise that women and people from underrepresented groups often apply for jobs only when they meet every single requirement listed. If you fall into that category and are about to rule yourself out based on the above criteria, please consider applying anyway. We'd love to see your application!

WHO ARE STREET GROUP?

We’re an award-winning PropTech business based in Manchester, founded in 2015 by brother and sister duo, Tom & Heather Staff. Most of us have personal experience of how painful moving can be, and Tom and Heather saw an opportunity to change this: utilising technology, as well as our incredibly talented team, to improve the industry for everyone.

Our products form a powerful duo, working harmoniously together to transform an agent’s job. From securing more leads and winning new instructions to streamlining business operations and growing market share, our products are supercharging 1,000s of agencies across the UK.

Back in 2015, our co-Founder, Tom Staff, spent his evenings building Spectre v1.0. He’d seen first-hand an opportunity to automate the very manual process of winning new business for estate agents. Spectre https://spectre.uk.com/ is now our multi-award-winning instruction generation tool, generating an average return on investment for them of over 3000%.

WHY JOIN STREET GROUP?

🏠 Hybrid-working - you can work from home up to 4 days per week

🏖️ Guilt-Free R&R - £1000 towards a holiday after your first year with the team (we'll even cover the tax!)

💪 Structured career growth and ongoing professional development

📚 £500 yearly L&D budget

🎂 Your birthday on us - we pay, you stay away

🙋 ‘Give something back’ - 2 paid days volunteering on us

👶 Enhanced maternity, paternity & adoption pay

🧠 Mental health & well-being support via Health Assured

🧘 Regular well-being initiatives

🚂 Public transport season ticket loans

🌷 Paid menopause leave

🌞 Holiday buying scheme

🚀 Joining a new team in an exciting business with huge ambition

👥 Be a part of something bigger - everyone in our team is passionate about improving the entire property industry! It's a huge goal, but it motivates us to do better every single day

👩🏿‍💻 A chance to work on cutting-edge technology

🐶 Comfortable, relaxed office space - office dogs welcome!

🍻 Fully stocked fridge and beers (or an alternative) on us every Friday afternoon

🎊 Company and team off-sites, events and happy hours

🚴 Cycle to work scheme

🚗 Electric car salary sacrifice scheme

🌍 Feel good about sustainability - we're a climate-positive company!

SALARY

£60,000 - £70,000, depending on experience. However, sometimes the perfect person is far more or less experienced than we anticipated. In these situations, planned ranges go out the window. If you think that might be the case, please apply and just let us know.

We care deeply about helping the tech industry become a more inclusive and diverse place, and we work hard to lead by example. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a complementary team of employees and building an inclusive environment for all. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK and be able to perform the work specified.

INTERVIEW PROCESS

3 stages = 60-minute video call with our Head of People > In-person interview with two members of the People team > Final interview with two members of our SLT.

We want to make our interviews as inclusive as possible, so if you need any adjustments made or if there's anything you think we should be aware of during the interview process, please do let us know.

A NOTE ON USING AI IN YOUR JOB APPLICATION

As a fast-moving and rapidly evolving tech company, we embrace the advantages of AI and encourage its use throughout our application process. However, our goal is to get to know and hire the authentic you - your skills, experience, and values. We don’t want to hire an AI-generated version of you. We consider AI to be a valuable tool, not something that should overshadow you as an individual.

HOW WE USE AI IN THE HIRING PROCESS

Candidate experience is really important to us, and our Talent team use AI notetakers during interviews so they can focus purely on their conversation with you. All hiring decisions are made by humans - not AI. Let us know if you have any questions!