Summary
James Baldock is a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner with eight years of hands-on experience building technical teams across startups and global enterprises, currently scaling hiring at Ebury. He specialises in senior and high-volume technical hiring—engineering, DevOps, security, and data—blending recruitment strategy with recruitment operations, ATS optimisation and recruitment marketing. James is data-driven, routinely using analytics to improve time-to-fill, quality-of-hire and candidate experience while embedding bias-reduction and inclusive practices across interview pipelines. He has led diversity programmes and large-scale transition projects for organisations including LEGO, YOOX NET‑A‑PORTER and comparethemarket.com, demonstrating an ability to deliver under tight timelines and complex stakeholder matrices. Known for partnering closely with engineering, product and leadership teams, he translates technical needs into pragmatic hiring plans and measurable talent outcomes. Based in Stony Stratford, he brings a recruiter’s tenacity plus a historian’s attention to context that helps surface long-term hiring signals beyond immediate role fits.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Gunnersbury Catholic School
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) History, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) History at University of Chichester