About the job

• Permanent Full-time
• Up to $200K + super + equity
• Cremorne/Hybrid

Talent Is the Strategy HereMost Head of Talent roles hand you a function to run. This one hands you a founder who sees talent as the single biggest lever for growth and asks you to build the function that proves it.

The OpportunityOur client is an Australian based AI health tech scale-up founded in 2023 with a global presence and further ambitions. The business has grown quickly and hiring has kept up.

Now it needs to go further. This role exists to move talent from filling roles to building long-term capability: a clear talent strategy, a consistent way of assessing people, pipelines that exist before the vacancy does, and a reputation that makes the business a destination for the best engineering, product and commercial talent in the market.

Reporting to the Head of People & Culture and working closely with the founder and CEO, you'll lead a team of two (one of those roles is open, so you'll hire into it) supporting hiring across Australia and the UK. This isn't an arm's length Head of role. You'll still source, engage and close critical hires yourself.

What You'll Be Doing

• Building the talent strategy and operating rhythm for a business hiring across engineering, GTM and sales in Australia and the UK
• Personally leading critical searches, particularly in product and engineering, while lifting the capability of your team
• Introducing interview rubrics, competency frameworks and assessment consistency so hiring quality holds as the business grows
• Coaching hiring managers to interview well and decide well, and partnering credibly with senior leaders
• Owning market mapping, proactive sourcing and talent pipelines, so the best people are known before a role opens
• Building talent communities through events, meetups, partnerships and networks, and laying the foundations for internship, graduate and campus programmes
• Utilise reporting to track the funnel, understand candidate drop-off and declined offers, and act on what the data says
• Raising the bar on candidate experience and stakeholder communication, and being a visible ambassador for the business in market

About YouYou've built talent capability somewhere that moved quickly, and you'd rather build than inherit.

• You'll likely bring:Talent acquisition leadership in a high-growth startup or scale-up, ideally in technology, software or health tech
• A track record hiring product and engineering talent, with networks in those markets to match
• Experience working closely with a founder or fast-moving CEO, including the confidence to push back when it matters
• The ability to bring structure and rigour to hiring without making it corporate or slow
• A data-driven approach, with confidence using ATS analytics (Ashby experience is a bonus, not a requirement)
• Strength in employer branding, market engagement and talent events
• Commercial urgency, high energy and comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities
• Agency experience is valued here, particularly when it's paired with internal TA maturity