Recruitment Consultant

Senior Recruitment Consultant – UK
Reference: BH-399c
Job Type: Freelance / Independent Co.
Location: Remote (UK)
Compensation: TBC
About ByteHire:
ByteHire is a specialist technology recruitment business helping companies hire high-quality technical talent across the UK and international markets.
We take a technical-first approach, combining specialist recruitment with structured screening and engineering-led validation to ensure clients meet genuinely relevant candidates.
As we expand our UK presence further, we are looking for an experienced Principal Recruitment Consultant to develop new client relationships and generate business across the UK technology market.
About the role:
This is a senior, commercially focused position for an experienced tech recruiter with a strong client development background.
Your primary focus will be identifying companies with technical hiring needs, building relationships with decision-makers and converting opportunities into recruitment partnerships.
You will have significant autonomy over your market and business development strategy, supported by ByteHire's recruitment, sourcing and technical screening capabilities.
What We're Looking For:
We are looking for an established recruiter who can demonstrate a strong track record of personally generating and converting new business, rather than solely managing vacancies provided through an existing desk.
You should be confident developing your own market, opening conversations with new organisations and turning those relationships into long-term recruitment partnerships.
Responsibilities:
Generate new recruitment relationships across the UK technology market.
Identify companies with technical hiring needs and engage key decision-makers.
Build relationships with CTOs, engineering leaders, talent teams and founders.
Generate opportunities through direct outreach, networking and referrals.
Lead client relationship conversations and present ByteHire's services.
Convert prospects into active vacancies and long-term client relationships.
Assist with commercial discussions around recruitment fees and terms.
Grow existing accounts and identify further hiring opportunities.
Work with ByteHire's sourcing and technical teams to ensure successful delivery.
Key Experience:
Significant recruitment experience, ideally within the technology sector.
Proven success winning new recruitment clients and generating revenue.
Experience developing your own recruitment desk, territory or client portfolio.
Good understanding of the UK technology hiring market.
Knowledge of software engineering, AI, cloud, DevOps, data or cybersecurity recruitment.
Strong prospecting, networking and relationship-building skills.
Confident with engaging and negotiating with senior decision-makers.
Commercially focused, self-motivated and comfortable working independently.
Desirable Experience:
An established professional network within the UK technology sector.
Previous experience recruiting software engineers, AI/ML specialists, DevOps/Cloud engineers, data professionals or cybersecurity specialists.
Experience working with UK start-ups, scale-ups, SaaS businesses, HealthTech companies or other technology-led organisations.
Experience establishing a new recruitment territory or developing a market from the ground up.
Previous experience operating successfully as an independent recruitment consultant.
Experience within smaller or growing recruitment businesses where consultants have significant commercial autonomy.
Familiarity with modern CRM, ATS, sourcing and business development platforms.
Why Join?
Play a key role in growing ByteHire's UK presence.
Significant autonomy over your market and business development strategy.
Access to dedicated sourcing and technical screening support.
Represent a differentiated, technical-first recruitment service.
Work across software engineering, AI, cloud, DevOps, data and cybersecurity.
Build and develop your own portfolio of US technology clients.
Fully remote, independent working arrangement.

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