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Talent Acquisition Partner

Graphcore

Graphcore

Software Engineering, People & HR
Bristol, UK
Posted on Nov 12, 2025

Talent Acquisition Partner

About the role

Our Talent Team follows the entire employee journey, from attraction, hiring and onboarding to their journey as an employee, how they learn, develop and progress.

As a Talent Acquisition Partner, you’ll play a critical role in the continued growth of Graphcore and achievement of our long-term vision & goals. As well as hiring the best candidates to support our goals, you work on continuous improvement projects across the talent space like raising our employer brand, process improvement, data insights to support hiring etc.

This is an exciting time for you to join, you’ll work on a wide variety of roles across our Software departments as well as a variety of different projects and help to shape and develop our future Talent Acquisition strategy.

You’ll:

  • Proactively source top candidates across our technical roles
  • Partner with Hiring Managers and HR Business Partners to understand hiring needs and create a hiring strategy to support
  • Attract, screen, and hire candidates through a robust and consistent recruitment process
  • Manage all candidates efficiently with a focus on ensuring an excellent and timely experience
  • Utilise & maintain our Applicant Tracking System (ATS), ensuring timely & accurate updates at all stages of the recruitment process
  • Measure, monitor and manage the recruitment processes from end-to-end from outreach to interviews and offer documents – all of which are integrated into our ATS system (Greenhouse)
  • Adopt a data driven and evidence-based approach to delivery underpinned by a commitment to diversity and inclusion
  • Work in a collaborative team, passionate about knowledge sharing and upskilling
  • Develop collaborative internal relationships to ensure that the recruitment strategy meets wider business requirements
  • Work with Marketing to manage our Employer Value Proposition (EVP) in the market and manage our externally facing careers accounts
  • Coaching and upskilling Hiring Manager in recruitment and interviewing techniques
  • Support wider Talent Team projects and activities globally

About you

You’ll have demonstrable experience gained from performing similar roles within the technology sector. This will include a thorough understanding of recruiting highly technical, niche roles straddling both hardware and software. It goes without saying that you’ll have strong direct sourcing skills as well as high levels of credibility and the ability to build influential relationships with internal stakeholders.

As well as the above, you’ll also bring the following skills and experience:

  • Previous experience of recruiting for technical roles ideally software (C++, Python etc)
  • Self-motivated and takes a proactive approach to their work, seeking opportunities to make improvements and problem solve
  • A high level of accuracy, ensuring trackers and ATS (Greenhouse) are kept up to date
  • Knowledge and experience of taking a consultative approach to supporting hiring managers through the recruitment process
  • Experience of project delivery across diversity, process improvement, employer branding etc.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, comfortable communicating at all levels
  • Work collaboratively with HRBPs & Hiring Manager to provide a seamless service
  • Analytical and able to interpret recruitment data & make recommendations based on results
  • Customer focused – committed to delivering an excellent experience for candidates and our hiring community
  • Excellent organisational skills and the ability to effectively prioritise and manage own workload