Head of Talent

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 ’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:

• Build the Talent Engine and Process:
  • 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
  • Build and nurture pipelines of high quality candidates in the UK and internationally.
  • Drive operational excellence through improved scorecards, interview training, calibration, and funnel discipline.
• Hire Exceptionally Across Functions:
  • Source, assess, and close world-class engineering, product, GTM, and generalist talent.
  • Understand the profiles, competencies, and behaviours required to succeed in an enterprise-focused startup.
  • Build pipelines of high-quality active and passive candidates, from the UK and beyond, and maintain relationships long before roles open.
  • Lead relationships with recruitment agencies, including identifying great partners for specific searches.
• Employer Brand:
  • Build a globally-competitive employer brand that positions Conduct as the place ambitious talent wants to work.
  • 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.
  • Drive our employer presence in UK, Europe, and US talent ecosystems.
  • Ensure every candidate, including those we do not hire, has an exceptional experience of Conduct’s recruitment process.
• Nice to have:
  • Experience with shaping compensation and benefits and setting clear performance expectations.
  • Help design and run onboarding processes that make new joiners productive quickly and aligned with how we operate.
  • Be a culture addition: help define and strengthen the behaviours that matter at Conduct.

• 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.

• 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