Impact and Responsibilities
We’re looking for a People and Talentspecialist to lead our 100% direct hiring strategy, deliver a seamless employee lifecycle, and drive continuous improvement across our people practices.
If you’re passionate about finding great people, shaping workplace culture, and using real employee insights to upgrade the team experience, this is your chance to make a tangible impact on our growing business.
100% Direct Recruitment: Manage end to end hiring across the business. You’ll use creative direct sourcing (LinkedInRecruiter, network outreach, referrals) to build active pipelines with zero agency spend.
Candidate Experience: Direct high-touch recruitment pipelines and interview coordination in our ATS, ensuring every hiring process reflects our high standards and keeps candidates engaged.
Onboarding Journey: Champion the end-to-end onboarding experience managing background checks, inductions, and initial training to guarantee every new hire has a seamless, high-impact start.
Employee Lifecycle: Be the go-to person for day-to-day employee queries, lifecycle administration, contract updates, and offboarding exit interviews.
Culture & Belonging: Champion an inclusive workplace culture by organizing engaging social and cultural events, facilitating employee-led inclusion initiatives, and maintaining equitable company policies.
HR Tools & Benefits: Manage our HR tech stack, vendor renewals, and employee benefits to ensure smooth operations and competitive offerings.
People Insight: Capture and analyze insights across the entire employee lifecycle (from eNPS data, candidate feedback to exit interviews) to continuously refine our internal processes and retention strategies.
What we’re looking for in you
A proven track record in direct candidate sourcing and full-cycle recruitment, with a knack for finding and closing top-tier talent without agency support.
Authentic passion and confidence in driving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, actively embedding fair, bias-free practices into hiring pipelines and workplace initiatives.
Hands-on experience gathering employee lifecycle data and feedback, as well as assisting with key HR projects like policy updates and benefits reviews.
Exceptional ability to balance fast-paced recruitment pipelines alongside day-to-day HR operations and employee touchpoints.
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with a natural ability to build trusted, positive relationships across all levels of the business.
Our Promise: Shieldpay is an equal opportunities employer. For Shieldpay building a fair and transparent workforce begins with the recruitment process that does not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. We offer flexible working options, such as flexible hours and hybrid work, to support our employees' work-life balance

Shieldpay is the payments platform for the legal and professional services industry, providing technology optimised solutions that reduce risk, provide transparency and enhance security, at pace.
Whether engaged as an escrow or paying agent, or as their managed account provider, Shieldpay removes the need and reduces the burden of managing client money for legal professionals.
Our Verify, Hold and Disburse capabilities can be scaled to different transactional needs, able to service payments of significant value, volume and international scope. Shieldpay takes on the complexity of legal payments, so legal teams don’t have to.
Shieldpay Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority as a payment institution and Shieldpay Trustee Services Limited is registered and supervised by HMRC as a Trust Services Provider. We offer a compliant solution in line with SRA and CLC regulations. As part of our operation, we hold banking relationships with recognised financial institutions. Client funds and trust funds are safeguarded with authorised banks which maintain appropriate levels of prudential requirements.
Awards
Banking Tech Awards' Best Digital Solution Provider – PayTech 2023
BusinessCloud Top 50 Most Innovative Fintechs in the UK 2023
Tempo Top 50 startups to work for in London in 2021/2022/2023
Modern Law Combatting Fraud Award 2020
LegalEx Conveyancing Award 2019
Modern Law Innovation of the Year 2019
The ESTAS Conveyancer Award 2019
Barclays Entrepreneurship Award 2018
VISA PAY360 PayTech Innovation Award 2018
RegTech Spotlight Award for Financial Crime 2017