People & Talent Lead

TORTUS

People & Talent Lead developing and executing HR strategies, overseeing talent acquisition and employee engagement at TORTUS AI's hybrid office in London.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in HR Business Partnering and Talent Management, with a strong focus on building and maintaining a high-performance culture in a high-growth environment. Capable of influencing C-suite leaders and managing the full people lifecycle while championing inclusion and employee engagement.

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HR Business PartneringTalent ManagementHigh-Growth Environment ExperienceEmployee RelationsPerformance Framework Development

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Hard Skills

People Lifecycle ManagementPerformance Framework DevelopmentTalent AcquisitionData-Driven Decision MakingOrganizational Design

Soft Skills

Strong CommunicationCoachingInfluencingTeam Dynamics ManagementConflict Resolution

Tools & Technologies

HRIS Optimisation

Industry Keywords

HealthtechAISoftwareRegulated SectorEmployee Engagement

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with hiring managers to deliver an end-to-end recruitment across that allows us to hire great talent
Build and maintain our employer brand, leveraging our mission and clinical impact as a talent differentiator
Use selective agency and search partnerships for niche or senior hires
Act as the primary people partner to the CEO, CTO and leadership team, advising on org design, team dynamics, and people decisions
Support managers on performance conversations, capability development, and team health
Be the go-to for employee relations, ensuring a fair and consistent approach
Develop and embed a performance framework suited to a high-growth, mission-driven environment
Build out manager capability, coaching and training our growing leadership layer
Create career frameworks and progression pathways that help us retain great people
Complete and embed our values work, turning the framework into lived behaviours
Run engagement initiatives and track sentiment, acting on what you find
Champion inclusion and psychological safety across a genuinely multi-disciplinary team (clinicians, engineers, AI scientists)
Own our people policies and ensure they are current, compliant, and accessible
Manage the people calendar: reviews, pay cycles, onboarding, offboarding
Use data and reporting to inform decisions and demonstrate people ROI to the board

Requirements

What you’ll need

Solid generalist background across the full people and talent lifecycle; you understand how the pieces connect
Genuine depth in HR business partnering and talent management; these are your spikes
Experience in a high-growth environment (Series A–C stage, ideally sub-100 people), where you've had to build as well as run
Comfortable operating as the sole senior people professional; you don't need a team around you to deliver
Used to working directly with founders and C-suite, influencing and bringing structure to ambiguity
Strong written and verbal communication; able to translate people strategy into things leaders and managers actually do.
Background in software, AI, healthtech, or another regulated sector (Nice to have)
Familiarity with the talent landscape for technical (AI/ML) and clinical hiring (Nice to have)
Experience with HRIS optimisation (Nice to have)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equal opportunities employer
Genuinely multi-disciplinary team