Overview
About Cleo At Cleo, we're not just building another fintech app. We're embarking on a mission to fundamentally change humanity's relationship with money. Imagine a world where everyone, regardless of background or income, has access to a hyper-intelligent financial advisor in their pocket. That's the future we're creating.
About The Company
At Cleo, we're not just building another fintech app. We're embarking on a mission to fundamentally change humanity's relationship with money. Imagine a world where everyone, regardless of background or income, has access to a hyper-intelligent financial advisor in their pocket. That's the future we're creating. Cleo is a rare success story: a profitable, fast-growing unicorn with over $300 million in ARR and growing over 2x year-over-year. This isn't just a job; it's a chance to join a team of brilliant, driven individuals who are passionate about making a real difference. We have an exceptionally high bar for talent, seeking individuals who are not only at the top of their field but also embody our culture of collaboration and positive impact. If you’re driven by complex challenges that push your expertise, the chance to shape something truly transformative, and the potential to share in Cleo’s success as we scale, while growing alongside a company that’s scaling fast, this might be your perfect fit. Follow us on LinkedIn to keep up to date with new product features and insights from the team.
About The Role
As an Early Years Talent Partner, you’ll own the strategy and delivery of our graduate and early careers hiring. You’ll be responsible for running our graduate schemes across the year, building strong university partnerships, and ensuring we attract, hire, and support exceptional early-career talent. You’ll work closely with hiring managers, the wider Talent team, and the People team to create a seamless experience for candidates while ensuring our graduate programmes deliver real impact for the business. This role combines hands-on recruitment, campus engagement, and programme partnership, giving you the opportunity to shape how we build our future talent pipeline.
What You'll Do
Own end-to-end recruitment for graduate schemes, internships, and other early careers programmes across the year
Build and maintain strong relationships with universities, careers services, and student societies to create sustainable talent pipelines
Represent the company at graduate fairs, campus events, and early careers initiatives
Design and deliver best-in-class hiring processes for early talent, ensuring an outstanding candidate experience
Proactively source and engage graduate talent through university networks, referrals, and targeted outreach
Partner closely with hiring managers to understand team needs and plan early talent hiring cycles
Work with the People team to support onboarding, facilitation, and development of graduate cohorts
Use data and insights to improve hiring outcomes, attraction strategies, and programme effectiveness
Champion inclusive hiring practices and build diverse early talent pipelines
Stay close to early careers trends, university engagement strategies, and emerging graduate expectations
Hiring graduate cohorts of approximately 10–12 hires per intake, multiple times per year
Supporting early careers hiring across Engineering, Analytics, and Machine Learning teams
Building structured pipelines from top tier universities aligned to these technical disciplines
Partnering with hiring managers and the People team to ensure successful onboarding and cohort integration
What We're Looking For
Proven experience managing graduate, internship, or early careers recruitment programmes end-to-end
Experience building relationships with universities, campus networks, and early careers communities
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner with hiring managers and internal teams
Comfortable managing multiple hiring cycles and programmes throughout the year
A candidate-first mindset with a passion for delivering exceptional experiences
A proactive, creative approach to building early talent pipelines and solving hiring challenges
Data-driven and curious, using insights to improve recruitment outcomes
Experience working in fast-growing, tech-driven environments is ideal
What You'll Get
A competitive compensation package (£40,000 - £55,000, bonus + equity) with bi-annual reviews, aligned to our quarterly OKR planning cycles. You can view our public progression framework and salary bandings here: https://cleo-ai.progressionapp.com/
Work at one of the fastest-growing tech startups, backed by top VC firms, Balderton & EQT Ventures
A clear progression plan. We want you to keep growing. That means trying new things, leading others, challenging the status quo and owning your impact. Always with our complete support.
Flexibility. We can’t fight for the world’s financial health if we’re not healthy ourselves. We work with everyone to make sure they have the balance they need to do their best work
Work where you work best. We’re a globally distributed team. If you live in London we have a hybrid approach, we’d love you to spend one day a week or more in our beautiful office. If you’re outside of London, we’ll encourage you to spend a couple of days with us a few times per year. And we’ll cover your travel costs, naturally.
Other Benefits
Company-wide performance reviews every 6 months
Generous pay increases for high-performing team members
Equity top-ups for team members getting promoted
25 days annual leave a year + public holidays (+ an additional day for every year you spend at Cleo, up to 30 days)
6% employer-matched pension in the UK
Private Medical Insurance via Vitality, dental cover, and life assurance
Enhanced parental leave
1 month paid sabbatical after 4 years at Cleo
Regular socials and activities, online and in-person
We\'ll pay for your OpenAI subscription
Online mental health support via Spill
Workplace Nursery Scheme
And many more!
Welcoming Everyone
We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.
Download the Test Flight
App access for people in the UK & Europe: If you are an iOS user, please use this link to sign up to our TestFlight version of the app, so you can have a play around with the functionality and features: https://testflight.apple.com/join/fDG9hWng
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