Principal, Talent Acquisition in London

At CoMind, we are developing a non-invasive neuromonitoring technology that will result in a new era of clinical brain monitoring. In joining us, you will be helping to create cutting-edge technologies that will improve how we diagnose and treat brain disorders, ultimately improving and saving the lives of patients across the world.

We are a medical device company operating at the intersection of engineering precision and patient impact. As we grow our capabilities across the UK and US, we are looking for a Principal Talent Acquisition Partner to lead on hiring delivery, spanning hardware, software, and broader engineering disciplines critical to our product development and regulatory roadmap.

This is a senior, high-autonomy role for someone who has built talent functions end to end before, not simply staffed them. You will operate as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on how we find, engage, and win the specialist and leadership talent this space demands; bringing structured market intelligence, sharp judgment on ambiguous and high-stakes searches, and the credibility to shape hiring strategy at the most senior tables in the business.

You will set the standard for how the wider TA function operates: embedding rigour into our ATS and pipeline data, and partnering closely with People Operations to keep our offer and onboarding process compliant, consistent, and built to scale.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on talent strategy for CoMind’s most complex and business-critical hires, translating ambiguous or evolving requirements into a clear hiring plan.
• Define and embed hiring processes that scale across geographies without losing rigour, speed, or candidate experience.
• Build long-term relationships with passive talent at leadership level.
• Manage stakeholders across the business to triage priorities and delivery required to manage pipelines against business objectives.
• Partner with hiring managers to deeply understand role requirements and team dynamics.
• Run searches across hardware, software engineering, data science, clinical and adjacent technical disciplines.
• Build and maintain proactive pipelines through sourcing, referrals and community engagement.
• Conduct structured market mapping exercises for senior/leadership roles.
• Deliver competitive intelligence and candidate landscape reports to senior stakeholders.
• Build and maintain sourcing trackers, pipeline reports, and hiring metrics.
• Work closely with Talent Ops to ensure offer workflows run smoothly and compliantly.
• Collaborate with People Ops on onboarding handoffs, background check coordination, and new hire readiness.
• Feed insights back into process improvement initiatives across the broader TA function.

AI is fundamental to our culture — it's not just a tool, but a core part of how we work, collaborate, and innovate. We expect all team members to embrace AI in their daily work and continuously find new ways to use it effectively.

Skills & Experience:

• 10+ years of in-house or embedded Talent Acquisition experience, including demonstrated experience operating at a senior or principal level as a trusted advisor to leadership.
• A strong track record recruiting across hardware, software, and broader engineering disciplines.
• Deep expertise sourcing and engaging passive, senior, and hard-to-find talent using executive search-grade methodology.
• Experience building or scaling a talent function, designing how hiring works, not just filling seats within an existing process.
• Comfortable managing multi-site hiring across geographically dispersed teams, and operating with autonomy in ambiguous or fast-changing environments.
• Meticulous about data; you keep your ATS clean, your trackers current, and your reporting honest, and you hold others to that same standard.
• A credible, senior collaborator who understands that a great hire doesn’t end at offer acceptance, and who can influence stakeholders at every level without relying on formal authority.

Nice to have:

• Experience with executive search methodology or retained search.
• Familiarity with the London and/or South West technical talent market.
• Deep expertise hiring in electronics, opto-electronics, FPGA/ASIC engineering, and other deeply technical hardware domains.

Benefits:

• Company equity plan so all employees share in the success of the company.
• Salary-sacrifice pension scheme.
• Private medical, dental and vision insurance (medical history disregarded).
• Group life insurance at 4x annual income.
• Comprehensive mental health support, including unlimited access to 1:1 sessions with trained professionals.
• Unlimited holiday allowance (+ bank holidays) and one week of remote working per quarter.
• Lunch voucher (£10) every day for JustEat and free dinner on those days where you need to work later.
• Twice weekly deliveries of fresh fruit and an extensive selection of snacks and drinks.
• YuLife subscription, allowing you to turn your daily steps and meditation into discounts at a range of stores.