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title: 'Talent Partner at Ankar'
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# Talent Partner at Ankar

- **Company:** Ankar
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ankar/0b0a4fcd-b80f-48e1-b6c6-aba31a144d25

## Job description

## JOB DESCRIPTION

The way companies innovate is broken. The systems built to create and protect ideas can’t keep up with the pace of change. Today, 90% of S&P 500 company value is intangible (e.g., in intellectual property) - yet R&D and IP teams spend half their time buried in manual work, sifting through patents and paperwork instead of pushing the frontier forward. The tools of creating and protecting are stuck in the past. We’re here to fix that.

Ankar is building the R&D tools for the AI era and defining what applied research will look like in the next 20 years. We’re building infrastructure and product experiences our customers rely on every day. You’ll translate messy, ambiguous problems into clean, dependable software—and you’ll do it at the cutting-edge of AI.

We’re at an inflection point:

- We’ve raised >$24M to date from Tier-1 VCs like Atomico, Index Ventures, Norrsken, Daphni, and angels like the Founder of Hugging Face, CEO from Datadog, and Leaders from DeepMind and OpenAI.
- We’re already working with the world’s most innovative companies including Fortune 500 company L’Oréal and global law firm Vorys
- Expanding our world-class team with alumni from Palantir, Amazon, and BCG to tackle the $1T+ innovation market. We’re just getting started.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for Engineering, primarily Software Engineers and Product Managers - from sourcing and screening through interview management, offer negotiation and closing.
- Build and maintain strong talent pipelines through proactive sourcing, referrals, communities and creative outreach strategies.
- Partner closely with hiring managers to understand hiring needs, define candidate profiles and run efficient, high-quality interview processes.
- Deliver an exceptional candidate experience throughout, building strong relationships and effectively positioning Ankar to top talent

## REQUIREMENTS:

- 6+ years building hiring systems in high-growth environments recruiting for Software Engineering roles
- Track record of hiring in ambiguous, zero-to-one contexts (early-stage startups, new market expansions, or building new functions within larger companies)

Culture at Ankar:

Culture at Ankar is how we think, build, and operate. We’re building a generational company that redefines how the world’s best R&D teams create and protect ideas.

- Contrarian - we think from first principles: We think deeply, question assumptions, and build from first principles. The best ideas come from clarity and rigour.
- Creative - we build with taste: We’re building the R&D tools for the AI era and shaping what applied research looks like over the next 20 years. We care about precision, quality, and systems that last.
- Competitive - we play to win: We move with urgency and set a very high bar for ourselves and each other. Every win raises the bar. Every challenge sharpens us.

## What we put behind our people

Building at the frontier takes exceptional people. We invest accordingly.

- Health Insurance : Full private health & dental coverage for you and your dependents.
- Pension: Flexible pension scheme with up to 5% employer matching on qualifying earnings.
- Food on us: Team lunches twice a week, plus dinner when working late in the office.
- Cycle to work: Green Commute initiative scheme (up to £3k) to help you get a new bike tax-free.
- Way we work: We combine deep, in-person collaboration (3 days/week in our Shoreditch office) with flexibility and trust. What matters is ownership, impact, and results, not where you work from.

## About Ankar

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ankar builds an AI operating system for innovation, providing tools to help R&D and patent teams accelerate the entire patent lifecycle from idea generation to protection.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom (registered address: 186-192 High Road, Ilford, Essex)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Wiem Gharbi and Tamar Gomez

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Intellectual Property (IP) Software / Legal Tech / AI
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (Fortune 500 R&D teams, AmLaw 100 law firms, patent professionals)
- **Mission**: To create a future where patent professionals ensure the best ideas always win and that R&D teams can ensure that innovation always outpaces imitation.

## Products & Services
- **Idea Generation**: Uncover whitespace, evolve ideas toward novelty, and assess patentability with certainty.
- **Drafting**: Draft invention disclosures and full patent applications with precision and structure.
- **Prosecution**: Guide responses, amendments, and litigation-related strategy with evidence-backed reasoning.
- **Protection**: Monitor products, detect infringement signals, and surface competitive patent insights.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$24M** raised to date (Series A led by Atomico, Seed led by Index Ventures)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Atomico, Index Ventures, Norrsken, Daphni, and angels including the Founder of Hugging Face, CEO from Datadog, and leaders from DeepMind and OpenAI. Customers include L'Oréal, Valeo, and AmLaw 100 firms.
- **Growth Signals**: 36 employees with +2% monthly headcount growth; 12 active job postings; trusted by over 1,000+ IP professionals; SOC 2 and ISO27001 certified; claims 3x faster idea-to-filing and 60% more efficient drafting/prosecution workflows.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Domain-specific AI**: Built specifically for the patent lifecycle, not a general-purpose LLM wrapper. The platform achieved full SOC 2 and ISO27001 certification before its first customer, emphasizing trust in a high-stakes domain.
- **Partnership-led approach**: Works closely with patent professionals to build and deploy software, evidenced by a Patent Expert Panel including former Chief IP Counsel at Cargill, Head of Patent Prosecution at Fenwick & West, and leaders from Bosch, Valeo, and Devialet.
- **Founding team pedigree**: Co-founders from Palantir (CEO's office, Product, Strategy) and Helsing, bringing deep experience in high-stakes enterprise software and defense.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Building a full "operating system for innovation" covering the entire patent lifecycle from idea generation to protection.
- **Go-to-market scaling**: Hiring for US sales (Founding Account Executive - US, US Sales Lead) and commercial roles, indicating a push into the North American market.
- **Talent acquisition**: Actively hiring across product, engineering, sales, and GTM roles (12 open positions), with a focus on "builders who want to own ambitious projects autonomously."

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as "office-first" with a "pioneer" and "contrarian" mindset. The team values autonomy, ownership (everyone has an equity stake), and first-principles thinking. They seek "builders who want to own ambitious projects autonomously, solve impactful & complex problems, and do the best work of their career."
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Office-first policy ("Great teams don’t train alone and meet on game day, that’s why we have an office-first policy so we can win together"). Headquarters in London.
- **Notable Perks**: Equity stake for all employees, flexible pension scheme with up to 5% employer matching, comprehensive health and dental cover for you and your dependents, weekly team lunch (Tuesday and Friday), dinner provided when working late, cycle-to-work scheme (Green Commute Initiative), and visa sponsorship (Tier 2 Skilled Worker Visas).
- **Engineering Culture**: Described as a place for "builders" who want to "own ambitious projects autonomously" and "solve impactful & complex problems." The team is small (36 people) with a high ratio of technical staff (9 in technical roles, 3 in product, 1 in design).

## Sources
1. [ankar.ai](https://ankar.ai/)
2. [ankar.ai/careers](https://ankar.ai/careers)
3. [ankar.ai/about](https://ankar.ai/about)
4. [LinkedIn](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/ankar-ai)
5. [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/ankar-ai)

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