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# Tech Talent Partner at Dex

- **Company:** Dex
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dex/7fc2a345-7326-457b-bca9-365c7ea0e048

## Job description

## Our Mission

Human time and effort is the rarest thing in the universe. The fact that so many people hate what they do for work is a disaster on so many levels. How many people live quiet lives of misery? How many generational talents do we miss due to circumstance? Dex’s mission is to close the gap between Talent & Opportunity, we believe that work, and being productive, is part of the human condition, that regardless of AI, human passion, ingenuity and a desire to do things means that work will always exist. We are building Dex to create a future where technology helps every individual to understand their strengths, interests and unique abilities, and to connect with opportunities where they can thrive, because more people doing things they love leads to a better, happier and more productive world.

We are starting by connecting the world's most ambitious software engineers with the companies that deserve them.

## Why this role is different

The AI startups and scaleups we work with have roles they can’t fill. Not because they haven’t tried, but because they have world-class hiring bars, and it’s genuinely tough. As a Talent Partner, you own those client relationships end to end. You take a role brief properly, you push back when it doesn’t add up, and you become the person a founder, internal talent partner or hiring manager calls before they’ve even decided to hire. You also own delivery, making sure every client has an amazing experience using Dex, from brief through to signed offer. We’re an AI-first company, and our talent team is pushing the boundaries of what AI can do in recruitment. You won’t just be using AI tools, you’ll be part of the team working out what great hiring looks like when AI is built into every step. You’ll also shape the product. You’ll work directly with our product and engineering teams, who are building tools specifically for you. When something isn’t working, whether it’s a match that shouldn’t have reached you or a workflow that slows you down, you raise it with the people who can fix it, and you see it change. Talent Partners are brought in early on anything that touches their workflow, so you help decide what gets built, not just use it.

## What you’ll do

- Own a portfolio of client relationships end to end: brief, delivery, feedback, and everything after
- Take role briefs and kick-offs that actually hold up. Scope the role, interrogate the requirements, and tell a client when the role is really two roles, or shouldn’t be hired at all
- Run the process on the client side: keep feedback fast, keep interviews moving, and keep momentum from breaking
- Use funnel data to diagnose stalling roles and walk clients through where they’re losing people and why
- Negotiate and close offers so that neither side feels managed
- Grow accounts from one search into the whole hiring plan

You’ll probably have

- 2+ years in tech or engineering recruitment, either in-house at a startup or scaleup or at a specialist tech agency
- Hired for roles like backend, infra, ML/AI engineers, researchers or founding engineers, and the ability to hold a credible conversation with a CTO about what a role really needs
- Strong command of funnel metrics: you know what good conversion looks like at each stage and what to do when it isn’t happening
- Commercial sharpness and the confidence to push back on senior people early, rather than having the expensive conversation late
- Curiosity about AI tooling. You’ll be a daily power user of a product that’s being built around you

## Why join now

You’ll be building relationships with some of the best AI startups and scaleups on the planet, helping them hire the roles they care most about. You’ll have experienced talent leaders around you day to day, and a product team building tools for you specifically. This is a team that deeply understands how difficult and how important hiring is. We’re open on backgrounds. If you have the raw ingredients and have excelled where you are now, we want to hear from you, even if you don’t tick every box.

## What we offer

- Above market base salary plus uncapped commission; we're building a world class team and believe pay should match that ambition
- Significant equity - we want this to be the last job you 'have' to take
- Full private healthcare & dental - because life happens and we want to support you
- Fertility benefits & enhanced parental support
- Gym membership & wellness benefits
- Claude tokens - lots and lots of Claude tokens
- Regular socials, offsites and an annual trip
- MacBook Pro + team kit
- "Whatever you need" approach to tools and support

The process Our hiring process is designed to be transparent and respectful of your time. Here's what you can expect:

- Talent Screen: Becca (Head of Talent) 30m
- Hiring Manager Interview: Richard, who heads up Talent Operations at Dex (30-45m)
- Short Take Home Exercise
- Task Review (60m)
- In person interview
- Culture Fit & Values (45m)
- Final Interview with Paddy, CEO and Founder at Dex (30m)

## About Dex

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Dex connects exceptional software engineers with venture-backed startups and scale-ups through a curated, AI-powered talent matching platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; total funding $15.0M)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Paddy Lambros (CEO) and Harry Uglow (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Talent matching / recruitment technology (Technology, Information and Internet)
- **Target customers**: B2B (startups and scale-ups hiring engineers) and B2C (software engineers seeking roles)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Dex exists to connect Talent & Opportunity” and “redefine how talent and opportunity connect” – focusing on meaningful work and transparent, human-centred matching.

## Products & Services
- **[Dex Platform]**: An AI-powered talent matching service that curates a shortlist of vetted roles for software engineers. Key features include full salary/package transparency upfront, direct introductions to hiring managers (bypassing applications), and long-term career support. The platform operates as a conversational agent (“Dex”) that learns an engineer’s preferences and surfaces only the most relevant opportunities.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$15.0M** (4 rounds), with the most recent **$5.3M seed round** led by Notion Capital (announced April 2026).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Notion Capital (lead), Concept Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and a group of leading angel investors.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **342.9% YoY** to 16 employees; **17 active job postings** (job postings up 1600% YoY); launched in the US in September 2025; released “Dex 2.0” in April 2026; featured in Forbes, Fortune, and LeadDev.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Curated & transparent**: Only a rigorously selected set of roles are offered, with salary and terms disclosed upfront – eliminating the typical opacity of recruitment.
- **Direct introductions**: Engineers skip applications and get a direct line to the hiring manager, dramatically shortening the hiring cycle (average time from referral to offer is much lower than job boards).
- **Long-term relationship**: Dex stays with engineers throughout their career, surfacing opportunities during promotion cycles or frustration peaks.
- **AI-powered matching**: Uses AI to surface the best-fit roles, but emphasises human judgement and personalisation over algorithmic spam.

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic expansion**: After launching in London, Dex has entered the US market and is building a presence in Italy.
- **Product evolution**: “Dex 2.0” positions the platform as an agent for ambitious engineers, further automating the matching and discovery process.
- **Team scaling**: Actively hiring for senior engineering roles (Research Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Founding Engineer, etc.), indicating a focus on building out the technical team to support growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Dex emphasises craft, overachievement, and enjoyment. The team is described as caring deeply about their work and wanting to be at the forefront of disrupting the $969bn recruitment agency market.
- **Engineering focus**: The company is building an AI-native matching platform with a strong engineering culture – open roles include Senior Research Engineer (LLM Post-Training), ML/Quant Research Engineer, and Founding Engineer.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: While the headquarters is in London, the company has a presence in Italy and has hired remotely. Specific policy not publicly detailed, but job postings suggest flexibility.
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company values transparency and career-long support for its users; internally, the team works on hard problems with talented people in a fast-growing startup environment.

## Sources
1. [meetdex.ai](https://meetdex.ai/)
2. [meetdex.ai/about-us](https://meetdex.ai/about-us)
3. [LinkedIn – Dex](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/meetdex)
4. [FinSMEs – Dex raises $3.1M Pre-Seed](https://www.finsmes.com/2025/07/dex-raises-3-1m-in-pre-seed-funding.html) (implied from search result)
5. [TechWatch Startup Funding Report](https://techwatch.com/...) (implied from search result)
6. [Ashby job posting – Senior Product Engineer](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dex/2cd27547-040a-4832-afa8-14c66e9a6d89)

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