Head of Talent

About us

At Xelix, we work with some of the world’s largest companies to automate and strengthen their financial controls. Our AI solutions redefine how Accounts Payable teams operate – moving from manual processes to automated, intelligent workflows.

Xelix is a fast-paced scale-up – things move fast and expectations are high. We raised our Series B with Insight Partners in June 2025 and are expanding aggressively. We have a team of 150 talented people pulling together to achieve our goals. Everyone is trusted to take ownership, move fast and have a meaningful impact. We prioritise personal and professional growth, keep things fun, and love to celebrate a milestone together.

In this role you’ll grow, be challenged and help shape the future of Xelix. If you’re excited about building something special with us, we’d love to hear from you.

About the role

We are looking for a hands-on, strategic Head of Talent who has experience scaling talent acquisition in a high-growth technology environment. This is a pivotal role for Xelix as we continue to grow across technical, commercial, and operational teams.

You will own the end-to-end talent acquisition strategy, combining strategic workforce planning with hands-on senior hiring. You will partner closely with the executive team and hiring managers to ensure we are hiring the right people, at the right pace, while maintaining a consistently high bar.

This role is ideal for someone who has operated in a similar scaling environment — likely B2B SaaS, fintech, AI, or another fast-paced technology business — and who is equally comfortable building talent infrastructure, shaping employer brand, and directly sourcing and closing senior candidates.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and deliver Xelix’s talent acquisition strategy across technical, commercial, and business functions.

• Partner with the CEO, People team, and senior leaders to understand hiring needs, workforce plans, and organisational priorities.

• Lead hands-on hiring for senior and business-critical roles, including direct sourcing, candidate engagement, assessment, and offer management.

• Build scalable hiring processes that are effective, inclusive, data-informed, and aligned with Xelix’s values and standards.

• Support hiring across both technical and commercial teams, including engineering, product, sales, marketing, customer success, operations, and leadership roles.

• Coach and challenge hiring managers to ensure strong role definition, effective assessment, and excellent candidate experience.

• Develop and strengthen Xelix’s employer brand, helping us tell a compelling story to the market.

• Build talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs, particularly in competitive technical and senior commercial markets.

• Use data to track hiring performance, identify bottlenecks, and improve quality, speed, diversity, and candidate experience.

• Manage and optimise our recruitment tools, agencies, job boards, and hiring partners.

• Ensure every candidate experiences Xelix as thoughtful, ambitious, transparent, and high calibre.

• Contribute to broader People initiatives as we scale, including onboarding, leadership hiring, talent planning, and organisational design.

What you’ll bring

• Significant talent acquisition experience in a high-growth technology business, ideally B2B SaaS, fintech, AI, or a similarly fast-paced scale-up environment.

• Proven experience hiring across both technical and commercial functions.

• Strong track record of senior-level hiring, including sourcing, engaging, assessing, and closing high-calibre candidates.

• Experience scaling hiring in a growing business, including building processes, improving capability, and supporting leaders through periods of growth.

• Strong understanding of employer brand and how to position a company effectively in competitive talent markets.

• Comfortable being both strategic and hands-on — able to set direction, but also personally deliver critical searches.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to advise, challenge, and influence senior leaders.

• Strong judgement on talent, assessment quality, and hiring standards.

• Data-driven approach to recruitment, with experience using metrics to improve hiring outcomes.

• High ownership, pace, and commercial awareness.

• Clear, thoughtful communication style and a strong candidate-first mindset.

• A pragmatic, low-ego approach, suited to a scaling environment where priorities can evolve quickly.

What success looks like

In this role, you will:

• Build strong trust with senior leaders and become a credible partner on all hiring matters.

• Deliver high-quality hires across technical, commercial, and leadership roles.

• Improve the consistency, quality, and efficiency of hiring across Xelix.

• Strengthen our employer brand and candidate experience.

• Build the foundations for a scalable, high-performing talent function.

• Help Xelix attract the people we need to achieve our next stage of growth.

Why join Xelix?

This is an opportunity to have a significant impact at a key stage of Xelix’s growth. You will work closely with the leadership team, shape how we hire, and help build the team that takes Xelix through its next phase of scale.

You will join an ambitious, collaborative, and high-performing environment where talent is central to our success. If you are excited by building, scaling, and hiring exceptional people in a technology business with strong momentum, we would love to hear from you.

What we offer in return

Competitive salary depending on experience

️ 27 days of annual leave (including 3 days Christmas closing), with the option to roll over 3 days

Hybrid working from our dog-friendly Hoxton office and on-site gym

Comprehensive private medical & dental cover with Vitality

Enhanced parental leave pay

Learning & development culture – £1,000 personal annual budget

We’re carbon-neutral and are working towards ambitious carbon reduction goals

Lots of team socials & activities

☀️ Annual team retreat

Want to learn more?

We believe that people from diverse backgrounds, with different identities and experiences make our company and product better. No matter your background, we'd love to hear from you! And if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you - we're happy to accommodate!

If you're a recruiting agency - we have an existing list of agencies we work with and we are not currently planning on expanding the list. Neither the Talent team nor hiring managers or the Support team will respond to cold outreach.

This is a full-time position, with standard working hours from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Monday through Friday.

Interview Process
While the exact process may vary slightly depending on the role, our typical interview stages are:

1. Introductory Call – A short Teams conversation with a Talent Partner to discuss your background and the opportunity.

2. Hiring Manager Interview – A 30–45 minute Teams meeting to explore your experience and fit for the team.

3. Technical Task or Presentation – A role-relevant exercise to demonstrate your skills and approach.

4. Final On-site Interview – An in-person meeting with our senior leadership team and co-founders at our office.

We strive to make the process clear, efficient, and respectful of your time.

We welcome the responsible use of AI for research and interview preparation, but ask that it isn't used to generate answers during live interviews. We also believe in being transparent - we use Metaview's AI note-taker during interviews so our interviewers can stay fully present. If you'd prefer us not to use it, just let your interviewer know. While you may need to answer eligibility questions as part of your application, we do not use AI to review or make decisions on applications - every application is reviewed fairly by a member of our Talent team.