Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Company Overview

Olix is pioneering a new class of AI accelerators called Optical Tensor Processing Units (OTPUs). Our work environment rewards innovation, speed, and bold thinking. We are headquartered in London with offices in Austin and The Bay Area.

The Role

We’re looking for a Talent Acquisition Partner to drive hiring during one of Olix's most critical periods of growth. We’re building a software team in the Bay Area from the ground up and and hiring is our #1 priority.

You’ll work directly with leadership, hiring managers, and the People and Operations teams to drive top-of-funnel, candidate experience, and the hiring process end to end. You’ll manage both delivery and systems, closing hard-to-fill roles, while helping to build the infrastructure that helps us hire smarter and faster. You’ll work alongside a Talent Coordinator to lay foundations to scale in the Bay Area.

The ideal candidate will have 0-1 experience in the accelerator space or deep tech with a creative mindset to navigate early stage challenges, and a track record of success hiring in a high performance environment. You’ll know what it takes to close junior engineers and technical senior leaders alike, with the ability to drive results independently and communicate clearly with your global Talent team.

This role is based in our Bay Area office and is 5 days a week in person.

Responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle recruiting across key roles (engineering, technical leadership, operations, commercial), from sourcing through to close.

• Build and execute scalable sourcing strategies to surface top-tier, hard-to-reach candidates across the US.

• Partner with hiring managers to craft compelling roles, sharpen their interviewing skills, and ensure fast, high-quality processes.

• Uphold high standards for candidate experience; every touchpoint should reflect our values.

• Help define and drive Olix's employer brand, ensuring we show up in the right communities with the right voice.

• Evolve the recruiting stack and reporting.

• Identify process improvements as we scale (e.g. calibration tools, interview training, DEI tracking).

• Manage relationships with external partners (agencies, sourcers, etc.) and hold them to a high bar.

Skills & Experience

• 6+ years of recruiting experience, at least half of which has been in-house at a fast-paced startup or high-growth tech company.

• Track record of hiring top technical talent, whether that’s ML engineers, digital designers, systems architects, or otherwise.

• Excellent sourcing instincts and a creative approach to candidate engagement.

• Confident partnering with senior stakeholders; you’re comfortable saying “no” and backing it up with data or insight.

• Organised, responsive, and rigorous; you keep processes moving without dropping the ball.

• Passionate about candidate experience and helping build a hiring culture that scales and drives forward the company values.

Nice to have:

• Experience in deep tech or hardware-driven environments, and/or 0-1 experience in the accelerator space - especially where talent is scarce and highly specialised.

This is a rare opportunity for someone with the right mix of ownership, urgency, and precision. But it’s not for everyone. You will thrive here if you:

• See the strategic advantage that working side-by-side in an office can bring. We’re building fast, and proximity matters. This role is 5 days a week onsite.

• Are excited to set aside the playbook in favour of deeply customised, high-signal hiring practices. You want to be a part of building what most people haven’t.

• Use ChatGPT multiple times a day. We’re scaling responsibly, and that means using AI as a starting point, a coach, and a constant amplifier of our work.

• Champion transparency, rigour, and pace. You believe in building a hiring culture that’s deeply collaborative and performance-driven.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive stock options, you’re not just part of the journey, you will own a piece of it.

• Live within 45 minutes of the office? Perfect. Live within 20 minutes? We’ll add an extra location bonus to your salary.

• We offer financial and operational relocation support (US and abroad), through a dedicated third-party provider who is on hand to make your move as seamless as possible.

• We offer visa sponsorship so if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to secure you a visa, but we may not be able to sponsor visas for every role and candidate.

• We’re in the process of setting up a US group policy once we have 5+ employees. In the meantime, we’re providing a health insurance stipend of $800/month to offset costs. Once the group policy is live, Olix will cover 100% of the employee premium, and offer options like dental, vision and life insurance with an aim to remain competitive among Austin tech and start up employers.

• We offer US employees access to a 401(k) retirement savings plan and we plan to introduce an employer match in line with tech market norms (commonly in the 4-5% range). Our goal is to keep our retirement benefits competitive while we scale.

• Top of the line, high-spec tech for everyone.

• Sony noise-cancelling headphones and ergonomic setups to keep you comfortable and focused.

• Personal company card to spend on tools that help you do your job - like ChatGPT Pro or anything else that boosts your workflow.

• Periodic travel to London HQ and regular team socials.

• 33 days of paid time off (PTO), including US federal holidays.

Due to U.S. export control regulations, candidates’ eligibility to work at Olix depends on their most recent citizenship or permanent residency status. We are generally unable to consider applicants whose most recent citizenship or permanent residence is in certain restricted countries (currently including Iran, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Russia, Belarus, China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Venezuela). Applicants who have subsequently obtained citizenship or permanent residency in another country not subject to these restrictions may still be eligible.

We do not accept unsolicited CVs from recruitment agencies, will not be liable for any fees, and prohibit unauthorised use of our company name in recruitment activities.