Norton Blake

Talent Acquisition Specialist London (Hybrid - 4 days onsite) Head of People/HR Manager The Role As our in-house Talent Acquisition Specialist , you'll be responsible for managing the end-to-end recruitment process across the agency. You'll work closely with hiring managers to identify needs, source top-tier candidates, and ensure an excellent candidate experience from first contact to offer. This is a hands-on role with real scope to shape how we attract, engage, and retain talent. Key Responsibilities Partner with department heads (Creative, Strategy, Client Services, Production, Tech) to define role requirements and hiring plans. Manage the full recruitment life cycle - from job briefing, sourcing, and screening to interview coordination and offer management. Build and nurture a talent pipeline for key roles and future growth. Develop and maintain strong candidate relationships, ensuring a best-in-class candidate experience. Write compelling job adverts and manage postings across job boards, LinkedIn, and social media. Use data and insights to track hiring performance, time-to-hire, and candidate quality. Manage relationships with recruitment agencies (where necessary), ensuring they align with agency values and budget. Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout all recruitment processes. Support onboarding and employer brand initiatives to promote our culture and EVP internally and externally. Skills & Experience Proven experience in an internal recruitment or talent acquisition role (agency or in-house) - ideally within a digital, creative, or media environment. Strong understanding of creative, digital marketing, and media roles and how to source for them. Confident using LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing tools. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple roles and priorities simultaneously. Passionate about people, culture, and candidate experience. Desirable: Experience working in a fast-paced agency environment. Familiarity with ATS platforms (eg Workable, Greenhouse, Teamtailor). Understanding of employer branding and social talent attraction strategies. Our Client: We're a fast-growing digital media agency blending creativity, technology, and strategy to deliver bold campaigns for global brands. Our teams are made up of curious minds who thrive on collaboration and innovation. As we continue to expand, we're looking for a proactive Talent Acquisition Specialist to help us find and attract exceptional talent across creative, digital, and client services functions. What We Offer £45,000 annual salary Hybrid working (4 days in-office/1 remote) 25 days annual leave Private healthcare Annual training budget and career development support Regular social events, team lunches, and creative inspiration sessions Collaborative, inclusive culture where ideas are valued

Machine Learning Engineer, ML Engineer, Hybrid, up to 110k London (Hybrid - 5 days a month) £80,000 - £110,000 depending on experience My client, a RegTech leader, is looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to join a growing AI/ML team working on cutting-edge NLP, search, and classification problems. This is a chance to shape and productionise ML solutions that directly impact a global user base in financial services. What You'll Do Design, build, and productionise ML/NLP models for large-scale SaaS products and APIs Write clear, modular, testable Python code and deploy via modern CI/CD pipelines Improve performance and scalability of models, data ingestion, cleaning, and pipelines Explore new ML/NLP techniques and keep the team up to date with research trends Propose cloud architectures and ensure robust ML operations (MLOps) Collaborate through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and documentation What We're Looking For Strong experience working with textual data and NLP Proven ability to write clean, testable Python code Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL/graph databases Hands-on experience with ML/DL frameworks (eg PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face) End-to-end cloud deployment experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure) Solid grasp of data structures, modelling, and cloud-based architecture A systems thinker with a passion for MLOps best practices Strong maths/stats grounding and ability to collaborate with research-oriented colleagues Please apply for more information Machine Learning Engineer, ML Engineer, Hybrid, up to 110k

Global Head of Software Development, Remote, Perm My client, a global leader in marketing procurement, are looking for a Global Head of Software Development to shape and deliver their technology strategy across the US, Europe, and Asia. This senior leadership role is pivotal in scaling engineering capability, driving platform evolution, and supporting growth. You'll be responsible for building distributed teams, setting the product and vendor strategy, and taking Embedded technology platforms to a standalone, client-ready product offering. Key Responsibilities Define and own the global technology strategy across creative production and procurement operations. Lead distributed engineering teams (c.100+ engineers across the US, EU, and APAC), Manage P&L and budgets for global engineering operations, including vendor and outsourcing partnerships. Drive technology integrations, platform consolidations, and data migrations during acquisitions. Ensure technology meets security and compliance requirements (SOC2, ISO, client audits). Collaborate closely with the CTO and executive stakeholders, influencing board-level decisions and representing technology with clients. Shape the roadmap to evolve existing platforms into scalable, standalone products. Experience Required Proven leadership at scale (75-100+ engineers), ideally across global distributed teams. Strong background in SaaS, MarTech, procurement platforms, or large-scale tech-enabled services. Deep understanding of software architecture, modern development practices, and Microsoft technology stack. Track record in technology integration. Executive stakeholder management, with the ability to engage C-suite, board, and client audiences. Experience driving compliance and governance in enterprise environments. Global Head of Software Development, Remote, Perm

Machine Learning Engineer, ML Engineer, Hybrid, up to 110k London (Hybrid - 5 days a month) £80,000 - £110,000 depending on experience My client, a RegTech leader, is looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to join a growing AI/ML team working on cutting-edge NLP, search, and classification problems. This is a chance to shape and productionise ML solutions that directly impact a global user base in financial services. What You'll Do Design, build, and productionise ML/NLP models for large-scale SaaS products and APIs Write clear, modular, testable Python code and deploy via modern CI/CD pipelines Improve performance and scalability of models, data ingestion, cleaning, and pipelines Explore new ML/NLP techniques and keep the team up to date with research trends Propose cloud architectures and ensure robust ML operations (MLOps) Collaborate through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and documentation What We're Looking For Strong experience working with textual data and NLP Proven ability to write clean, testable Python code Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL/graph databases Hands-on experience with ML/DL frameworks (eg PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face) End-to-end cloud deployment experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure) Solid grasp of data structures, modelling, and cloud-based architecture A systems thinker with a passion for MLOps best practices Strong maths/stats grounding and ability to collaborate with research-oriented colleagues Please apply for more information Machine Learning Engineer, ML Engineer, Hybrid, up to 110k

Senior IOS Developer, London/Hybrid, 6 months, £500 - £550/day (Inside IR35) As a Manager Mobile Solutions, you will play a key role in delivering award winning, interactive experiences to our clients. You will drive the translation and construction of clients' business problems into innovative technology solutions by creating and owning the technical vision of a project to ensure that the vision is achieved with a high level of quality. You will be responsible for solution design and architecture delivery- providing technical direction to teams and implementing architectural strategy. You will elaborate design options, encourage innovation, drive technical strategy and ensure that solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements. You will contribute to delivery capability by educating and mentoring developers, using a variety of design techniques and ensuring that good design practices are followed. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES Provide Thought Leadership on iOS platform Analyse software requirements and map them to iOS architecture or extend the architecture in order to support the new requirements. Responsible for designing app architecture and integration design to various external systems Document and communicate architectural decisions and designs Responsible for choosing the needed technology stack based on the functional, non-functional requirements and based on other factors like client drivers, environment and feasibility Provide direction, guidance, and expert advice to the App development and delivery teams Develop prototypes, proof of concepts, and feasibility analysis. Interact with 3rd party providers to integrate additional services into the platform Cooperate with project and product management to scope, estimate, and plan new efforts Follow best practices using Apple Development Guidelines Drive code quality, code coverage, unit testing, best practices and Continuous integration/Continuous Delivery Pipeline Good interpersonal and communication skills Constantly research and adopt new technologies/best practices Strong and innovative approach to problem solving and finding solutions Drive Performance Tuning, Clean coding and Security best practices across teams SKILL REQUIREMENTS Overall 10 years' experience(minimum) in developing complex and advanced mobile applications on iOS. Must have hands on experience with the most up-to-date Swift version, and can mix it with Objective-C Deep understanding and hands on experience in Core Frameworks like Core Data, GCD, NSOperationQueue, Core Graphics, Core Animation, UIKit, AV Kit, AV Foundation. Hands on development experience is a must and must be able to create boiler plate code (architecture implementation) before the development starts Deep understanding of MVC, MVVM, VIPER and other patterns Deep understanding of Factory, Adapter, Observer, Singleton and other behaviour patterns Deep understanding of Object-Oriented Programming, data structures, and design patterns Proficiency Have published at least 5 iOS apps on Play Store Must possess knowledge on App Security and Cryptography Good exposure to API Caching and defining NFRs (Non-Functional Requirements) for mobile application Must have worked on Core Data, Offline Sync, Caching, Local Storage, Realm/Room/SQLLite databases Good working knowledge of tools such as Git, JIRA and Jenkins or any tools that are similar to these. Must have worked with Agile Methodologies Good communication skills and fluent in English Hands on experience with Reactive frameworks such RxSwift or custom framework Deep understanding of Fast lane or any similar CI/CD Scripting frameworks Hands on experience on unit testing framework Must have experience in Performance Tuning the app Must have experience using XCode Instruments and ability to diagnose any memory leaks and crashes Implementation understanding of Multi-threading, asynchronous concepts Must have experience in complex integrations such as CRM, CMS, Push Notifications, Identity Management, SSO, Social Integrations to the App Experience integrating third party frameworks using Cocoapods and Carthage. Worked with logging and capturing user navigation and app usage to Google Firebase and Crashlytics for understanding the most used features by users Deep understanding of Analytics, tagging, accessibility Must have experience working on Localisation/multi language support Must have architecture experience on complex/large consumer facing apps Must be good at Technical Leadership with an ability to quickly adapt to latest technology trends APPLY NOW!