Principal Talent Acquisition

At CoMind, we are developing a non-invasive neuromonitoring technology that will result in a new era of clinical brain monitoring. In joining us, you will be helping to create cutting-edge technologies that will improve how we diagnose and treat brain disorders, ultimately improving and saving the lives of patients across the world. ### **The Role** We are a medical device company operating at the intersection of engineering precision and patient impact. As we grow our capabilities across the UK and US, we are looking for a Principal Talent Acquisition Partner to lead on hiring delivery, spanning hardware, software, and broader engineering disciplines critical to our product development and regulatory roadmap. This is a senior, high-autonomy role for someone who has built talent functions end to end before, not simply staffed them. You will operate as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on how we find, engage, and win the specialist and leadership talent this space demands; bringing structured market intelligence, sharp judgment on ambiguous and high-stakes searches, and the credibility to shape hiring strategy at the most senior tables in the business. You will set the standard for how the wider TA function operates: embedding rigour into our ATS and pipeline data, and partnering closely with People Operations to keep our offer and onboarding process compliant, consistent, and built to scale. ### **Responsibilities:** * Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on talent strategy for CoMind’s most complex and business-critical hires, translating ambiguous or evolving requirements into a clear hiring plan * Define and embed hiring processes that scale across geographies without losing rigour, speed, or candidate experience * Build long-term relationships with passive talent at leadership level * Manage stakeholders across the business to triage priorities and delivery required to manage pipelines against business objectives * Define and embed hiring processes that scale without losing rigour or speed * Partner with hiring managers to deeply understand role requirements and team dynamics * Run searches across hardware, software engineering, data science, clinical and adjacent technical disciplines * Build and maintain proactive pipelines through sourcing, referrals and community engagement * Conduct structured market mapping exercises for senior/leadership roles * Deliver competitive intelligence and candidate landscape reports to senior stakeholders * Build and maintain sourcing trackers, pipeline reports, and hiring metrics * Work closely with Talent Ops to ensure offer workflows run smoothly and compliantly * Collaborate with People Ops on onboarding handoffs, background check coordination, and new hire readiness * Feed insights back into process improvement initiatives across the broader TA function * AI is fundamental to our culture — it's not just a tool, but a core part of how we work, collaborate, and innovate. We expect all team members to embrace AI in their daily work and continuously find new ways to use it effectively. ### **Skills & Experience:** * 10+ years of in-house or embedded Talent Acquisition experience, including demonstrated experience operating at a senior or principal level as a trusted advisor to leadership * A strong track record recruiting across hardware, software, and broader engineering disciplines * Deep expertise sourcing and engaging passive, senior, and hard-to-find talent using executive search-grade methodology * Experience building or scaling a talent function, designing how hiring works, not just filling seats within an existing process * Comfortable managing multi-site hiring across geographically dispersed teams, and operating with autonomy in ambiguous or fast-changing environments * Meticulous about data; you keep your ATS clean, your trackers current, and your reporting honest, and you hold others to that same standard * A credible, senior collaborator who understands that a great hire doesn’t end at offer acceptance, and who can influence stakeholders at every level without relying on formal authority **Nice to have:** * Experience with executive search methodology or retained search * Familiarity with the London and/or South West technical talent market * Deep expertise hiring in electronics, opto-electronics, FPGA/ASIC engineering, and other deeply technical hardware domains **Benefits:** * Company equity plan so all employees share in the success of the company * Salary-sacrifice pension scheme * Private medical, dental and vision insurance (medical history disregarded) * Group life insurance at 4x annual income * Comprehensive mental health support, including unlimited access to 1:1 sessions with trained professionals * Unlimited holiday allowance (+ bank holidays) and one week of remote working per quarter * Lunch voucher (£10) every day for JustEat and free dinner on those days where you need to work later * Twice weekly deliveries of fresh fruit and an extensive selection of snacks and drinks * YuLife subscription, allowing you to turn your daily steps and meditation into discounts at a range of stores * * * Compensation: £90K – £110K • Offers Equity * • £90K – £110K • Offers Equity Find [Jobs in United Kingdom](https://www.arbeitnow.co.uk) on Arbeitnow