Job Position: Talent Manager
Reporting to: Vice President, People
Office Location: Chelsea, London (4 days in office)
At EF, people and innovation are at the core of everything we do, which is why we are searching for a highly skilled and motivated recruiter / talent manager to help us achieve one of our most ambitious projects yet. Your job will be immensely varied but your priorities are simple – attract and hire top talent and help them grow quickly into company super stars to rapidly support our strategic plans.
An individual contributor, part of the small People Team, you will work closely with managers and teams globally. One day may be focused on LATAM, the next EMEA and the third South East Asia.
This role is ideal for someone who deeply believes that the right people in the right teams can solve our world’s biggest problems—because that is exactly what this team is setting out to do. If you are highly adaptable, collaborative and passionate about a people-centric strategy to achieve goals, join us.
Who You Are
- An energetic, agile and internationally savvy recruiter / talent manager who moves at startup pace, scaling teams from 5→20, building talent pools in key markets.
- Obsessed with quality at speed: you set targets like filling 20 roles in your first 6 months and run 2-week sprint cycles to hit them.
- A builder of experimentation: you A/B test sourcing channels, messaging, interview flows and continuously improve based on real metrics.
- A believer that with the right people we can tackle big problems—and you’re driven to prove it every day.
What You’ll Do
- Act as an ambassador for the EF brand both internally and externally to attract talented people who want to work for us.
- Create, implement and improve a talent acquisition strategy that builds a strong pipeline in key hiring markets.
- Own the recruitment process end-to-end, partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, design job descriptions, source, screen, interview and close candidates.
- Ensure world-class candidate experience by designing seamless interview journeys, collecting feedback loops, and ensuring experience matches expectations.
- Ensure managers carry out full onboarding to give our new hires the best chance of success. Be decisive in identifying any hiring mistakes quickly.
- Design and deliver people-centred initiatives to develop and engage our global teams. From AI training to internal communications to
What You Bring
- 5+ years’ experience within sales or recruiting, preferably in high-growth startups or fast paced companies.
- A strong gut-instinct with ability to make decisions quickly and confidently.
- Enthusiastic and natural relationship building and communication skills that can ‘sell’ us.
- Exceptional organizational skills and can work accurately in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong initiative, self-motivation and curious and analytical – able to research, innovate, learn and collaborate. Quickly.
- A passion for big missions, you believe people are the multiplier for impact.
- Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter and an ATS (ideally Oracle) is a plus
- Fluency in English, competence in any additional languages is a plus.
Why working for Efekta is great
- Radical autonomy to invent and own your hiring strategy.
- Fast paced environment where your ideas launch in days, not quarters.
- Surrounded by passionate talented teammates who are experts in education, technology and global mobility.
- A chance to participate in our Global Experience Program, spending time in other offices and teams around the world.
- A competitive salary (based on track record) and benefits packages
- A vibrant international office environment in Chelsea with café, gym and socials.
- Surrounded by passionate talented teammates who believe nothing is impossible
- Celebrations and anniversary markers, including paid sabbaticals.
About EF Education First And Efekta
Founded in 1965, EF (Education First) is a global association of education companies with people and innovation at its heart, that shares a common mission of opening the world through education, offering language, academic, cultural exchange and education travel programs.
Efekta is the fastest growing of these companies providing the world’s leading AI-powered learning technology to schools, universities and organisations.
Efekta is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to inclusion and belonging across race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, disability, parental status, identity, experience and everything else that makes you unique.
