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.

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.

• 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.

• 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