Interim Chief of Staff, Omnea
6-12 Month Contract, R&D
3-5 days a week in office
AI-native platform streamlining procurement across teams and systems
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AI-native platform streamlining procurement across teams and systems
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
3-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To orchestrate the full supplier lifecycle - transforming procurement, third-party risk management, and spend control.
Role
Who you are
- We don’t expect you to know exactly how to do absolutely everything when you join! We are looking for someone with the right attitude & skillset to take on this challenge
- You have 4–6 years of experience in high-growth tech companies (30–200 people) or similarly fast, ambiguous environments. You’ve sold something before - a product, idea, service, or your own company -- and you’re excited to apply those commercial skills to technical hiring, engaging and closing high-calibre engineers
- You’re entrepreneurial, ambitious, and know that being great at hiring is a real career accelerator. You want to rise faster than any ‘normal’ path and you’re happy to roll up your sleeves to make that happen. You have a track record of exceptional performance -- whatever you’ve chosen to invest in
- You’re an outstanding communicator: clear, concise and able to build rapport with engineers, PMs, and execs. You learn fast (incl. technical concepts if needed), can understand our product and engineering systems, and you simplify complex problems into clear next steps
- You’re outcomes-focused with a strong bias to action. You prioritise ruthlessly, operate efficiently and autonomously, and care deeply about quality. You are proactive, accountable, and always moving things forward
- Most importantly, you’re just a really good human -- low-ego, collaborative, reliable, and someone who builds trust and brings out the best in the people around you
- Dealbreakers: This is not for pure consultants/VCs without operating experience. It’s not for people who need heavy structure, or who want process over progress
- If you don’t get energy from being in the weeds in e.g. building pipeline for hiring & making an impact (often requiring unglamorous work), you will not enjoy this role
What the job involves
- We’re hiring an Interim Chief of Staff, R&D to drive high-impact execution across Omnea’s most critical technical priorities -- from engineering hiring and operating rhythms, to special projects that sit directly with our engineering and product leadership
- You’ll be a force multiplier for our technical leadership team: helping our Tech Lead hit engineering hiring targets, supporting with cross-functional initiatives, and owning technical work that sits between orgs together with Product and Ops
- This is a high-trust, high-expectations role for someone who thrives in ambiguity and wants to help build an exceptional engineering organisation from the ground up
- This role will be 80% technical hiring & engineering enablement and 20% everything else that needs to be done across Engineering Ops & Technical Strategic Projects
- You’ll learn how to build a world-class engineering organisation by actually doing it:
- You’ll hit engineering hiring targets by driving execution across sourcing, process design, assessment and candidate engagement
- You’ll build and manage outbound candidate campaigns (engineering, product, data, security, platform, and technical leadership roles)
- You’ll improve candidate experience and interview quality across the entire technical funnel
- You’ll help shape and grow our technical employer brand across content, events, open-source communities and external networks
- You’ll support engineering leadership with onboarding, calibration, and capability building as the team scales
- You’ll partner with Engineering Leadership to improve our operating systems: planning rhythms, org design, stand-ups, reviews, tooling, and reporting
- You’ll help enable our engineering team with better data, processes, and documentation
- You’ll drive execution of high priority projects across the business (e.g., architecture simplification, reliability initiatives, technical debt programmes, internal tooling)
- You’ll research key technical areas, synthesise insights, and support decision-making with clear data, analysis and proposals (e.g., build vs buy evaluations, platform migrations, AI infrastructure research)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The way businesses buy stuff is broken. Whether it's SaaS, hardware, or contractors, the average B2B purchase takes over 3 months, requires 50+ emails, and involves multiple different stakeholders. Which in turn, is 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 and suppliers risk assessments. Giving both buyers, and finance and 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 spending.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
45% female employees
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2025
$50m
SERIES B
Oct 2024
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $70m
Company benefits
- Equity options with every role!
- Volunteering days
- 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays (total: 33 days pay)
Company values
- Customer-centric: We obsess over how our decisions & how we show up will help our current and future customers
- Team Before Self: We do whatever it takes to maximise our team’s performance, knowing that pulling together allows us to achieve more than going alone
- Grit & Perseverance: We are relentless in our pursuit of success, seeing knock-backs as opportunities to learn & grow
- Positive Mindset. Solution Focussed: We aim to solve problems, not just spot them. We stay optimistic and bounce back from failures
- Act Like an Owner: We all understand that Omnea belongs to us. This means addressing issues as they arise, valuing every task, and showing deep care
- Craft at Speed: We care greatly about the quality of our work, whilst often moving at an uncomfortably fast pace
Company HQ
Victoria, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Ben Freeman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously, Ben joined the founding team at Tessian, built out the go-to-market teams and launched & managed the business in the US.
Sabrina Castiglione
(CFO/COO)Part of the early Tessian team with 2 exits under her belt (Tessian-> Proofpoint, Pento-> HiBob), Sabrina is a veteran European startup CFO/COO.
Abhirukt Sapru
(Chief Commercial Officer)4x CRO/VP Sales and Employee #2 at Tessian and early angel at Omnea, Abs is part of the early-Tessian group that's accelerating Omnea through its rapid growth.
Rebe Tristan
(VP Customer)16+ years in tech, scaling customer orgs, building teams from scratch, and helping companies grow fast, from Meta to Pigment, Rebe brings a wealth of experience to Omnea.
People progressing
Gavin joined the team as a Founding Software Engineer in 2022 and became a Tech Lead in 2024.
Brian joined the team as a Founding Software Engineer in 2022 and became a Tech Lead in 2023.
Joining us as a Commercial Associate in 2023, Ben now leads GTM US expansion for Omnea
India joined the team as a Founding Software Engineer in 2022 and became a Tech Lead in 2025.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Omnea
Claire Williams (Chief of Staff)
- At Omnea, we embrace diversity. To build a product that's loved by everyone, we need 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!
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