Founding Head of Talent in London

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Our Mission

The way businesses buy stuff is completely broken . Whether it\'s SaaS, hardware, or contractors, the average B2B purchase takes over 3 months , requires 50+ emails , and involves multiple different stakeholders (IT, Legal, InfoSec, Finance, etc.). No one likes the way it is and it\'s slowing businesses down .

Omnea\'s platform handles the entire purchasing process : giving employees an easy place to make requests (Intake), managing the necessary approvals for the purchase to be made (Approvals Engine), and automating all renewals management & supplier risk assessments. Omnea gives both buyers, and finance & procurement leaders critical visibility into how, when, and why money is being spent.

Given the current market\'s increased focus on capital efficiency, there has never been a more vital time for businesses to use Omnea and get control of their spend. This is why we\'re one of the fastest growing Series A B2B businesses in Europe, backed by tier-1 VCs like Accel, First Round, & Point Nine.

Welcome to Spend Control 2.0 - built for tougher times.

What we\'re looking for

We\'re looking for an entrepreneurial, high-agency operator to join us as Omnea\'s Founding Head of Talent . You\'ll be excited to scale an early-stage business and shape the foundation of our team, culture, and talent engine -- which we consider to be the most important part of the company. We are trying to build a totally different type of Talent org -- rather than high volume, generic searches, we want to focus on quality & precision, more akin to how the very best exec search firms are run.

You\'ll be joining at an inflection point: we closed our Series A with $25m from Accel, Point Nine, First Round, and over 50 leading angels & founders last summer and our revenue has grown 6x since! Our founder CEO, CCO, and CFO previously built Tessian from $0-30m+ ARR, and we\'re doing it again -- but faster and bigger -- with a team of top performers, a product loved by amazing customers like Spotify, Monzo, and Wise, and an enormous market.

Your job will be to find, attract, and close the world-class people we need to scale from ~70 to 500+ people. You\'ll report directly into our CEO and work with the leadership team to build our hiring machine from the ground up. You\'ll design and run high-velocity, high-quality processes, set a world-class candidate experience, and ultimately own how we grow the team and business.

This is a career-defining role with exposure to executive decision-making, and the opportunity to make Omnea the destination company for the best talent in the world.

What Can You Expect?

• You\'ll be the first Talent leader in a hyper-growth & hyper-ambitious company, owning how we attract and hire top talent at a foundational stage.
• You\'ll report into the Founder CEO and work closely with our commercial, product, engineering leaders to deeply understand each function and define success profiles.
• You\'ll become the top performing talent person at Omnea, and then build out the team from two to many people. This includes sourcing exceptional candidates across technical, commercial, and leadership roles, and crafting personalised outbound messages to win them.
• You\'ll build the infrastructure that enables us to scale hiring without compromising quality -- from Ashby workflows and funnel metrics to enablement materials and referral engines.
• You\'ll design structured hiring processes that raise the bar across interviews, scorecards, and candidate evaluation.
• You\'ll grow the talent team as we scale, hiring and leading additional recruiters. You\'ll also lay the foundations of onboarding and early PeopleOps -- working across the business to ensure every new joiner is set up for success.
• You\'ll manage hiring budgets as needed, build deep relationships with external recruiters and optimise the whole hiring funnel for quality and the best candidate experience.
• You\'ll shape Omnea\'s culture and hiring philosophy, helping us become the kind of company that the best people want to join and continue building with.
• You\'ll define how we show up to the world, owning all employer branding across our careers page, candidate collateral, and any marketing initiatives that you pursue.

About You

• You\'re an entrepreneurial, high-agency operator who wants to build something from scratch and have chosen Talent as a function because you fundamentally believe that it is the ultimate growth lever for a company of our scale. You\'re not looking for a cozy leadership seat; you want to be in the arena, doing the work, setting the standard of what great looks like, and shaping the future of the company as we continue to scale.
• You have a significant number of years of experience in high-growth startups or similarly fast-paced, high-accountability environments (hard minimum of 7 years), and have rapidly progressed to leadership on account of exceptional competence.
• You\'ve seen scale before -- and you know how to build the systems, processes, and playbooks that will get us from ~70 to 500+ people without lowering the bar.
  • This role is not suitable for someone who has not previously led an entire function through to a company growing from early stages to at least 300 headcount.
• You can operate full-stack across the entire hiring process. You can source, pitch, and close top talent -- whether it\'s a Founding AE in a new geo, a senior engineer, or an exec hire. You know how to run a tight, high-touch process, and you care deeply about the craft of recruiting.
• You\'re commercial. You understand how hiring drives the business, and you think like a founder. You influence, challenge, and coach senior leaders across the business, helping them define success, sharpen their judgment, and make better hiring bets.
• You\'ve got an exceptional eye for talent. You know what \"great\" looks like across functions, and you help others see it too. You\'re obsessed with raising the bar -- and you have the judgment and conviction to hold it, even when it\'s hard.
• You\'re a closer. You know how to pitch the mission, sell the equity, and navigate tough offer dynamics. You create a candidate experience that\'s memorable for all the right reasons, and you leave the best people out there thinking \"I want to work there.\"
• You\'re fast and craft at speed. You balance urgency with quality, and you don\'t get stuck in theory or process. You know when to move, when to pause, and when to push back. You operate with pace, focus, and a bias for action.
• You\'re a world-class communicator. You write crisp, persuasive outreach. You\'re clear, direct, and credible with founders and execs. You bring clarity, not noise, to every interaction.
• You care deeply, you act like an owner, and you hold yourself to a high bar. You treat Omnea\'s resources like your own, and you\'re here to help build a massive company -- not just run a function.
• And above all, you\'re a good human, living up to our value of \'team before self\'. You are low ego, highly collaborative, generous with your feedback and time. You raise the bar for those around you, and you\'re the kind of person people want to build alongside.

At Omnea, we embrace diversity. To build a product that\'s loved by everyone, we\'re best served by a team with all sorts of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn\'t quite match the full job spec! And regardless of your race, religion, colour, gender, or anything else! If you think you could be a good fit for Omnea, please reach out.

A few things to note:

• We work Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays in-person at our offices. At this early stage of our company life-cycle it\'s important to us that we get this together-time, and you can read more about why we believe this is a winning move here
• We\'re commercial, ambitious and we don\'t pretend otherwise! We\'re actively seeking folks looking to make the most of a career-defining opportunity, with the hunger to be part of building something really impressive . You can see our values here
• We sometimes use AI note-takers to help us transcribe interview notes, so we can be more present in your interview. If you\'d like to opt out of us using automatic transcribers, please note this in the free text field in your application, otherwise we\'ll take your application as confirmation that you\'re happy for us to use notetakers (whether added to video calls or in the background).

  We are proud to be recognised for both our culture and product, and we are just getting started. Join us as we grow!