As Conduct’s Head of Talent, you won’t just run hiring, you’ll shape the team, culture, and systems that will help us scale at pace. You’ll inherit an early-stage hiring engine and elevate it into a disciplined, high-velocity, globally competitive talent function. You will own the full talent lifecycle across strategising, planning, sourcing, assessing, and onboarding. Working directly with the Co-Founders, you will:
Role Responsibilities
* Build the Talent Engine and Process:
o Own and evolve our early stage hiring into a talent first, candidate led engine that consistently attracts the right people and converts them quickly, without compromising on quality
o Build and nurture pipelines of high quality candidates in the UK and internationally.
o Drive operational excellence through improved scorecards, interview training, calibration, and funnel discipline.
* Hire Exceptionally Across Functions:
o Source, assess, and close world-class engineering, product, GTM, and generalist talent.
o Understand the profiles, competencies, and behaviours required to succeed in an enterprise-focused startup.
o Build pipelines of high-quality active and passive candidates, from the UK and beyond, and maintain relationships long before roles open.
o Lead relationships with recruitment agencies, including identifying great partners for specific searches.
* Employer Brand:
o Build a globally-competitive employer brand that positions Conduct as the place ambitious talent wants to work.
o Own creative communications and marketing initiatives, including events and experiences, to develop and deepen the view of Conduct as a centre of excellence for candidates.
o Drive our employer presence in UK, Europe, and US talent ecosystems.
o Ensure every candidate, including those we do not hire, has an exceptional experience of Conduct’s recruitment process.
* Nice to have:
o Experience with shaping compensation and benefits and setting clear performance expectations.
o Help design and run onboarding processes that make new joiners productive quickly and aligned with how we operate.
o Be a culture addition: help define and strengthen the behaviours that matter at Conduct.
Candidate Profile
* Extensive experience hiring engineering, product, GTM, and operational talent in high-growth environments, likely both in agencies and in-house.
* Experience working in a startup or high growth tech company, with a strong understanding of the talent needed to succeed in enterprise SaaS.
* Ability to identify and test specific expertise across functions: e.g., technical depth for engineering and sales skill for GTM.
* A track record of scaling hiring with quality and speed.
* Strong sourcing capabilities, particularly for passive candidates across multiple functions.
* Experience shaping a globally-competitive employer brand that resonates with ambitious builders and operators.
* Outstanding written and verbal communication: crisp, structured, and persuasive.
* A reputation for raising the bar culturally and operationally.
* High personal velocity: autonomous, decisive, and outcome-oriented.
What “Good” Looks Like In This Role
* You consistently elevate hire quality and recruitment standards.
* You cement our hiring engine as a globally-competitive system trusted by candidates.
* You enforce quality through structured interviewing and clear unbiased decision-making.
* You are flexible to the needs and requirements of an early-stage start-up and know when it’s right (and when it’s wrong) to bend process.
* You build a talent brand that stands out globally to high-performing enterprise operators.
* You become a valued advisor on compensation, performance and people systems.
* You strengthen Conduct’s culture through clarity, expectations, and high standards.
* You operate with pace, independence, and strong judgment.
Core Skills: Hiring, Brand, SaaS, Interviewing
Other Skills: Onboarding
Seniority: Leadership
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