Talent Director

Job description

About OLIX AI is growing faster than any technology in history and the explosion in demand has created a massive infrastructure gap; we can no longer build chips or power stations fast enough to keep up. The industry is still leaning on a ten-year-old hardware blueprint that has reached its limit. A new paradigm that is faster and more efficient will be the biggest economic opportunity of the next century and create the most important company of the next decade. The OLIX Decode Accelerator 1 (DX-1) is the first accelerator architected specifically for decode. Rack-scale co-design of logic, data movement, packaging, optics and interconnect enables a step change in system level performance. The Role The Talent Director owns how OLIX finds, wins and hires the people who will build it. You will take a talent function built for around 200 people and make it one that carries us confidently to 1,000, across London, Bristol, Austin, San Francisco and Toronto, without lowering the bar on a single hire. This is a hands on leadership role. You will personally lead our most senior and executive searches, and close people who are not looking. Many of the people we need exist in pools of a few dozen worldwide: III-V device engineers, advanced packaging architects, optical interconnect specialists, AI software engineers, silicon leaders who have taken a chip to production. Hiring them is a precision problem, not a volume one. You will build a team of recruiters as sharp as the engineers they hire, and set an AI strategy for recruiting that changes how we decide, not just how fast we work. The best argument wins here, and we expect you to make it, welcome challenges to it, and change your mind when the evidence says so. Responsibilities Build and scale the talent function from around 200 to 1,000 people: org design, hiring, priorities and operating rhythm, in place before the headcount arrives Lead senior and executive searches directly, including the hires that signal the calibre of people joining OLIX Attract, hire and develop top Recruiters and Sourcers, and hold them to the same bar as our engineers Own the hiring bar: what great looks like for each role family, and how consistently every interviewer applies it Build the playbook for extremely scarce talent: mapping the market, building relationships early, and closing passive candidates Set OLIX's AI strategy for recr…