Talent and Agile Executive
Location: London (Hybrid)
About Bolt Insight
Bolt Insight is a fast-growing consumer insights start-up building AI-powered research products, including BoltChatAI (AI-moderated qualitative research at scale) and quantitative capabilities via BoltQ – helping teams get high-quality consumer insight faster and across global markets.
We’re scaling quickly, which means high hiring volume, pace, and loads of opportunities to learn, influence, and grow.
Role summary
As a Talent and Agile Executive, you’ll help deliver a high-volume recruitment pipeline across multiple functions while keeping candidate experience high and processes tight. You’ll also bring an Agile coaching element to the TA function – helping us run hiring like a well-oiled product team: visible workflow, smart prioritisation, fast feedback, and continuous improvement. You don’t need to be an “Agile Coach.” You do need to be organised, people-savvy, data-aware, and comfortable facilitating simple team ways-of-working.
Role and responsibilities
Support end-to-end hiring across multiple open roles at once (often 10+ requisitions depending on business demand), from intake to offer
Coordinate and optimise high-throughput scheduling: screening calls, hiring manager interviews, panels, and debriefs – keeping everything moving
Source proactively (LinkedIn, job boards, referrals, talent pools) and deliver shortlists aligned to role needs
Drive structured screening: consistent notes, scorecards, and efficient candidate summaries for fast decisions
Maintain pristine ATS hygiene and on-time stakeholder comms (pipeline updates, next steps, feedback chasing)
Keep candidate experience excellent: clear expectations, fast responses, thoughtful rejections, and smooth offer coordination
Support employer brand activity (postings, events, messaging) in line with Bolt Insight’s mission and growth
Maintain, quality-check, and regularly update Talent Acquisition tracking spreadsheets to ensure accurate, timely visibility of recruitment activity, pipeline health, and progress against hiring goals
Consolidate inputs from relevant stakeholders, monitor key metrics and milestones, and highlight risks, blockers, and priority actions
Produce clear summaries and present structured updates to the wider HR team, translating data into insights and recommendations to support workforce planning and decision-making
The Agile ways-of-working element (ways of working in TA)
You’ll help the TA team and hiring managers work in a more “Agile” way:
Run lightweight weekly planning (role priorities, capacity, risks) and short check-ins to unblock the team
Maintain a clear hiring workflow board to visualise roles, candidate stages, bottlenecks, and WIP limits
Track and share simple flow metrics: time-to-hire, stage conversion, bottleneck stages, interview-to-offer time, candidate satisfaction signals
Observe workflow & team dynamics to spot bottlenecks within teams
Facilitate retrospectives and turn insights into owned actions
Coach Agile/Lean practices and improve workflow
Partner with leadership on priorities and outcomes
We will support in teaching you what you need to know for the Agile element!
What success looks like (first 3–6 months)
You’re confidently running multiple roles in parallel without drops, delays, or messy handoffs
Interview scheduling and feedback loops are faster, clearer, and calmer
Hiring managers trust the process because it’s structured, transparent, and prioritised
The TA team has a visible cadence: plan → execute → retro → improve
Skills & Experience
Must have:
0-2 years’ experience in recruitment / talent coordination / HR / agency resourcing / high-contact operations (internships / graduates welcome)
Strong organisation, attention to detail, and comfort juggling many moving parts
Confident stakeholder communication (you can chase feedback without being a menace)
Data comfort: spreadsheets, ATS reports, pipeline tracking
Nice to have:
Experience running team rituals (stand-ups, weekly planning, retros)
High-volume hiring experience (or high-volume scheduling/coordination in any setting)
Interest in tech/product/AI environments
Behaviours We Value
Candidate-first, pace-friendly, and unflappable
Proactive: you spot blockers early and fix or escalate fast
Improvement mindset: you simplify and standardise without making things bureaucratic
Collaborative: you build trust across hiring managers, candidates, and teammates
Growth: we’re always looking for candidates to join the company and grow their skills and knowledge – depending on your experience, this role can grow into a Senior Talent Partner, or Agile Lead as potential career paths!
Tools (Typical)
ATS (TeamTailor)
LinkedIn Recruiter
Microsoft 365
Why join Bolt Insight?
Join a growing startup where hiring directly shapes the product and the company.
Real ownership early: you’ll influence how we hire, not just “admin the process.”
Work close to teams building AI-powered consumer insight products like BoltChatAI / BoltQ
- Department
- Operations
- Locations
- London
- Remote status
- Hybrid
About Bolt Insight
Bolt Insight is a global market research company built to help organisations make better decisions by staying closer to the people they serve.
Founded in 2019, Bolt was created to challenge the idea that insight has to be slow, fragmented or disconnected from real decision-making.
Our mission is to bring real consumer voices into the heart of business, in a way that is faster, more scalable and more actionable.
Our technology is designed by researchers, for researchers, with ethics, transparency and human oversight built in from the start. AI accelerates the process, but it is human judgement that gives insight its meaning.
Today, Bolt is powered by a team of over 50 specialists across London, Istanbul, Paris, New York and Singapore. We support clients around the world, helping them explore markets, test ideas, refine experiences and uncover opportunities with confidence.
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