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.

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.

• 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.

• 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…