Director of Talent

London, UK. Posted 18 days ago

The role

The Director of Talent will build and scale the talent function from 200 to 1,000 people. You will lead senior and executive searches and build a team of recruiters and an AI recruiting strategy.

What you will do

Build and scale the talent function from around 200 to 1,000 people
Lead senior and executive searches directly
Attract, hire and develop top Recruiters and Sourcers
Own the hiring bar
Build the playbook for extremely scarce talent
Set OLIX's AI strategy for recruiting
Own hiring systems, data and metrics
Partner with the exec team on workforce planning
Build OLIX's talent brand

Required qualifications

Has built and led a talent function through hyper-growth, from a few hundred people toward 1,000 or beyond
Has attracted and developed top recruiters
Has worked where talent density is top 1%
Has personally led senior and executive searches into niche, extremely limited talent pools
A clear point of view on AI in recruiting with evidence of putting it into practice
Either versed in deep tech already, or curious enough to go deep on product and technology
Influences through evidence and clear reasoning

Nice to have

Talent leadership at an AI lab, AI hardware company or semiconductor business
Direct experience hiring in photonics, optoelectronics, advanced packaging, silicon or AI software
Experience hiring across the UK and US and running a multi-site function

Benefits

Meaningful stock options
Annual Living-Local Bonus if your residence is within 20 minutes of the office
Employer-contributed retirement plans

Before you apply

Candidates eligibility to work at OLIX depends on their most recent citizenship or permanent residency status
Generally unable to consider applicants whose most recent citizenship or permanent residence is in certain restricted countries (currently including Iran, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Russia, Belarus, Ch

About the company

OLIX is building the OLIX Decode Accelerator 1 (DX-1), a new paradigm for AI infrastructure. The company focuses on rack-scale co-design of logic, data movement, packaging, optics and interconnect.