Founding Head of Talent, Omnea
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Victoria Station, London)
Procurement automation for the enterprise
Open for applications
Procurement automation for the enterprise
21-100 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Victoria Station, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To orchestrate the full supplier lifecycle - transforming procurement, third-party risk management, and spend control.
Role
Who you are
- You’re an entrepreneurial, high-agency operator who wants to build something from scratch and have chosen Talent as a function because you fundamentally believe that it is the ultimate growth lever for a company of our scale. You’re not looking for a cozy leadership seat; you want to be in the arena, doing the work, setting the standard of what great looks like, and shaping the future of the company as we continue to scale
- You have 5–7+ years of experience in high-growth startups or similarly fast-paced, high-accountability environments. You’ve seen scale before -- and you know how to build the systems, processes, and playbooks that will get us from ~70 to 500+ people without lowering the bar
- You can operate full-stack across the entire hiring process. You can source, pitch, and close top talent -- whether it’s a Founding AE in a new geo, a senior engineer, or an exec hire. You know how to run a tight, high-touch process, and you care deeply about the craft of recruiting
- You’re commercial. You understand how hiring drives the business, and you think like a founder. You influence, challenge, and coach senior leaders across the business, helping them define success, sharpen their judgment, and make better hiring bets
- You’ve got an exceptional eye for talent. You know what “great” looks like across functions, and you help others see it too. You’re obsessed with raising the bar -- and you have the judgment and conviction to hold it, even when it’s hard
- You’re a closer. You know how to pitch the mission, sell the equity, and navigate tough offer dynamics. You create a candidate experience that’s memorable for all the right reasons, and you leave the best people out there thinking “I want to work there.”
- You’re fast and craft at speed. You balance urgency with quality, and you don’t get stuck in theory or process. You know when to move, when to pause, and when to push back. You operate with pace, focus, and a bias for action
- You’re a world-class communicator. You write crisp, persuasive outreach. You’re clear, direct, and credible with founders and execs. You bring clarity, not noise, to every interaction
- You care deeply, you act like an owner, and you hold yourself to a high bar. You treat Omnea’s resources like your own, and you’re here to help build a massive company -- not just run a function
- And above all, you’re a good human, living up to our value of ‘team before self’. You are low ego, highly collaborative, generous with your feedback and time. You raise the bar for those around you, and you’re the kind of person people want to build alongside
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an entrepreneurial, high-agency operator to join us as Omnea’s Founding Head of Talent
- You’ll be excited to scale an early-stage business and shape the foundation of our team, culture, and talent engine -- which we consider to be the most important part of the company
- We are trying to build a totally different type of Talent org -- rather than high volume, generic searches, we want to focus on quality & precision, more akin to how the very best exec search firms are run
- You’ll be joining at an inflection point: we closed our Series A with $25m from Accel, Point Nine, First Round, and over 50 leading angels & founders last summer and our revenue has grown 6x since!
- Your job will be to find, attract, and close the world-class people we need to scale from ~70 to 500+ people
- You’ll report directly into our CEO and work with the leadership team to build our hiring machine from the ground up
- You’ll design and run high-velocity, high-quality processes, set a world-class candidate experience, and ultimately own how we grow the team and business
- This is a career-defining role with exposure to executive decision-making, and the opportunity to make Omnea the destination company for the best talent in the world
- You’ll be the first Talent leader in a hyper-growth & hyper-ambitious company, owning how we attract and hire top talent at a foundational stage
- You’ll report into the Founder CEO and work closely with our commercial, product, engineering leaders to deeply understand each function and define success profiles
- You’ll become the top performing talent person at Omnea, and then build out the team from two to many people. This includes sourcing exceptional candidates across technical, commercial, and leadership roles, and crafting personalised outbound messages to win them
- You’ll build the infrastructure that enables us to scale hiring without compromising quality -- from Ashby workflows and funnel metrics to enablement materials and referral engines
- You’ll design structured hiring processes that raise the bar across interviews, scorecards, and candidate evaluation
- You’ll grow the talent team as we scale, hiring and leading additional recruiters. You’ll also lay the foundations of onboarding and early PeopleOps -- working across the business to ensure every new joiner is set up for success
- You’ll manage hiring budgets as needed, build deep relationships with external recruiters and optimise the whole hiring funnel for quality and the best candidate experience
- You’ll shape Omnea’s culture and hiring philosophy, helping us become the kind of company that the best people want to join and continue building with
- You’ll define how we show up to the world, owning all employer branding across our careers page, candidate collateral, and any marketing initiatives that you pursue
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
30% female employees
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Omnea is constantly evolving as the company grows - and so are you! I can push boundaries, learn from others who are much more experienced than me..."
Funding (1 round)
Oct 2024
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $20m
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
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.
Ben Allen
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a CTO of Playter, a VC-backed ‘buy-now-pay-later’ start-up. Before this, they were the Co-Founder & CTO/CPO of Canary & Delta, bringing products to market for Pre-Seed, Seed & Series A businesses.
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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