Senior Talent Acquisition Manager

About us:

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels. 

Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄 

Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.9 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be. 

Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey. 

Introducing the Talent team at Trainline 👋

At Trainline, our Talent team is central to scaling one of Europe’s most exciting travel tech businesses. We’re a collaborative, high-performing group that believes recruitment is a strategic craft, not just a process. Whether it’s partnering with stakeholders to define hiring needs, enhancing candidate experience, or testing the latest in AI hiring tools, we approach talent acquisition with creativity, care and a data-first mindset.

We are looking for an ambitious and strategically minded Senior TA Manager – Tech & Product to lead full-cycle recruitment for our Product and Technology teams. You will play a key role in shaping hiring strategies, elevating the candidate experience, and supporting high-impact hiring needs during a pivotal phase. You’ll partner closely with hiring leaders across Product and Tech to attract exceptional talent and deliver recruiting excellence. This is a player-coach type role where you’ll lead and develop a small team but also be getting “hands on” with hiring.

As a Senior TA Manager at Trainline you will... 🚄

• Be accountable for hiring world-class talent into our Tech, Product & Data teams — both hands-on for critical roles and through leading and developing your team of 2.

• Partner with Tech, Product & Data leadership to align short, mid and long-term workforce needs with scalable hiring strategies, working closely with People & Finance to plan effectively.

• Design and deliver best-in-class attraction, selection and assessment processes, raising hiring standards through structured, data-led practices.

• Lead the adoption of AI and recruitment technology, identifying opportunities for innovation that optimise sourcing, assessment and funnel performance.

• Use recruitment data and market insights to drive process improvements, build business cases, and influence senior leaders on hiring priorities.

• Deliver cross-functional hiring projects that improve efficiency, quality and diversity outcomes, balancing immediate delivery with longer-term impact.

• Own the candidate experience strategy for Product & Tech, embedding fairness, inclusivity, and our DEI commitments at every stage.

• Lead Trainline’s employer brand for Product & Tech, building visibility in the talent market and ensuring a consistent EVP in partnership with Marketing, Comms and wider TA.

We'd love to hear from you if you... 🔍

• Have a background in end-to-end recruitment across Product, Tech, or Data roles within a fast-paced Tech business. It is essential that you have gained this experience working in-house for a Tech company of a similar scale (we are c.1000 people).

• Have experience leading and developing a TA team, coaching recruiters to improve delivery, stakeholder management and process expertise.

• Enjoy operating as a player-coach — balancing hands-on delivery of hiring with developing and supporting your team

• Have a track record of strategic partnership with senior stakeholders — able to influence, challenge and shape workforce plans and hiring decisions.

• Have strong project management skills, with examples of designing and delivering hiring initiatives that improved efficiency, quality, or diversity outcomes.

• Have hands-on expertise in attraction, selection and assessment design, including structured interviews and inclusive hiring practices.

• Bring demonstrated ability to leverage AI and recruitment technology to optimise sourcing, funnel performance and candidate experience. Bonus points if you’ve used Ashby and Metaview before (or similar).

• Can show how you use recruitment data and market insights to influence leaders, secure business case sign-off, and drive continuous process improvement.

• Have experience shaping and delivering candidate experience strategies that embed fairness, inclusivity and consistency across all stages.

• Bring strong knowledge of employer branding and talent marketing, with experience leading campaigns, events, or partnerships that strengthened a company’s presence in tech/product markets.

• Have a passion for DEI in hiring, with a track record of embedding inclusive practices in sourcing, interviewing, and selection.

• Bring high resilience and adaptability, thriving in a complex, high-growth environment while balancing immediate delivery with longer-term initiatives.

More information:

Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits. 

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one! 

Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, in everything we do: 

• 💭 Think Big - We're building the future of rail 

• ✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey 

• 🤝  Travel Together - We're one team 

• ♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact 

We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.

Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor!