CreateFuture is reshaping digital consulting by embedding AI into everything we do, helping our people work smarter, deliver deeper client impact, and drive lasting change.
As a Talent Acquisition Associate, you’ll sit at the heart of our hiring engine, powering the top of the funnel with high-quality, insight-led pipelines across the UK and Bulgaria. You’ll play a key role in building a proactive, data-informed sourcing approach that supports today’s hiring needs while anticipating tomorrow’s demand.
This role focuses on Talent Sourcing and is ideal for someone who loves research, smart experimentation, and using technology, especially AI, to find great people before the rest of the market catches on.
What you’ll be doing:
Own the Top of the Funnel
Proactively source and build pipelines for technical and non-technical roles, ensuring we have warm, relevant talent ready as hiring demand emerges.
Source, Engage & Experiment
Use various techniques for LinkedIn sourcing, Boolean search, job boards, x-ray searches, referrals, talent mapping, Community sourcing (meetups, conferences, forums etc), internal talent rediscovery (past applicants, silver medalist, alumni), and creative sourcing approaches to find and engage passive talent and continuously test new channels and ideas.
Meaningful First Conversations
Support initial screening conversations to understand skills, experience, motivations, and alignment before candidates move forward.
Market & Talent Insights
Partner with Recruiters and the Sourcing Lead to share insights on talent availability, role trends, and candidate sentiment across UK and Bulgaria markets.
AI-Enabled Sourcing
Explore, recommend, and use AI tools to improve sourcing efficiency, talent discovery, outreach personalisation, and pipeline quality helping CreateFuture hire smarter, not just faster.
Data-Led Decisions
Track sourcing activity, response rates, and pipeline health. Share insights with the team and help define what “good” looks like as we raise the bar together.
We’d love to talk to you if you:
- 1–3 years’ experience in sourcing or top-of-funnel recruiting (agency or tech environment preferred)
- Strong curiosity and a mindset geared toward learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement
- Experience using LinkedIn, job boards, and Boolean search and other sourcing techniques or a strong desire to master them quickly
- Interest in AI tools and data-driven sourcing approaches (hands-on experience is a bonus, not a must)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with an engaging, human outreach style
- Ability to stay organised, manage multiple pipelines, and keep ATS data clean
- Fluent English (spoken and written)
We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do.
We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed.
We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.
Our hiring processWe try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will be upfront about where you are in the process.
It usually looks like this:
- Call with our Talent Acquisition Team
- Role specific capability interview
Depending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens.
Inclusion at CreateFutureWe believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work.
If you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. We will do what we can to help.
We look forward to your application!
Skills Required
- 1-3 years' experience in sourcing or top-of-funnel recruiting (agency or tech experience preferred)
- Experience using LinkedIn, job boards, Boolean search and other sourcing techniques (or strong desire to master them quickly)
- Interest in AI tools and data-driven sourcing approaches (hands-on experience is a bonus)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with engaging outreach style
- Ability to stay organised, manage multiple pipelines, and keep ATS data clean
- Fluent English (spoken and written)
What We Do
CreateFuture was built to take action. With our 500-strong team of software engineering, strategy and design experts, across Edinburgh, Leeds, London and Manchester, we’re determined to get you exactly what you need. As with our past clients, we get to the root of your challenge and do everything it takes to create positive solutions by building digital products and services that solve problems. With years of experience helping catalyse major organisations into action, our rapid growth has been driven by people who seek to understand before they solve. We care about our craft. We challenge each other by asking, “Why not?”. And we’re proud to collaborate and partner with the likes of PayPal, adidas, FanDuel, Money Saving Expert, Penguin Random House, Yorkshire Building Society and more. With CreateFuture, our people are at the forefront of every outcome and we know that a strong team dynamic is critical to success, so we’ll be there for you every step of the way. We draw on their unique skills for problem-solving – and helping your teams unleash their potential too. Put simply, we want to be an organisation that people want to work for and want to work with. You don’t need to have all the answers. Share your problem and we’ll go from there. Let’s create something incredible, together, today.
