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TORTUS

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

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

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Hard Skills & Tools
People Lifecycle ManagementPerformance Framework DevelopmentTalent AcquisitionData-Driven Decision MakingOrganizational Design
Soft Skills
Strong CommunicationCoachingInfluencingTeam Dynamics ManagementConflict Resolution