Founding Talent Lead

Location: Old Street, London, UK (Onsite, 5 days a week)

Mission:
We’re building the next generation of customer service with AI Agents. Our AI-powered voice agents answer calls, manage customer accounts, and book more jobs. We are taking over call centres—starting with field services—and scaling fast.

About elyos.ai We founded Elyos in June 2023 and took part in the Y Combinator S23 Batch. After living in San Francisco for 4 months and raising a $3m seed round, we’ve been growing revenue 50% month-on-month and expanding the team rapidly. It’s been wild so far!

Why join us?
We’re growing headcount over 100% in the next year, and we’re looking for our Founding Talent Lead to build and scale the team that powers Elyos.

This is a major role - working directly with the Founders to design world-class hiring processes, shape a high-performance team, and ensure every new team member ramps successfully.

You’ll own everything related to recruiting to onboarding during a hyper phase of growth. You’ll shape the most talent-dense team for Elyos.

Key Responsibilities

Talent Acquisition & Recruiting

• Own end to end hiring for engineering, GTM and operations

• Build and run high quality and high velocity recruiting engine

• Create sourcing strategies to attract exceptional talent globally

• Deliver a world class candidate experience, representing Elyos AI with clarity and energy

• Build an amazing employer brand for Elyos

Onboarding & Employee Experience

• Design and deliver seamless onboarding

• Get new joiners productive, fast

Who you are

• 4+ years in tech recruiting and talent acquisition

• Experience hiring engineers and technical roles in high-growth start-ups

• Strong understanding of performance management and people management

• Excellent communicator and high EQ

• Able to thrive in fast paced environment where you build as you go

• Excited about AI and to work with an amazing team

About the Role
We’re looking for exceptional talent to join our growing people organisation.

• Start date: immediate

• Salary: Leading comp and performance bonus

• Progression: Opportunity to build and lead the full People and Talent function as we scale

This is a rare opportunity to shape the team, culture, and talent engine of a company scaling at breakneck speed.