Head of Talent

Signaloid provides a computing platform that tracks data uncertainties dynamically and throughout computations in execution workloads. Our computing platform uses deterministic computations on in-processor representations of probability distributions, to enable orders of magnitude speedup and lower implementation cost for computing tasks traditionally solved using Monte Carlo methods. The platform is available as a cloud-based computing engine that lets you run tasks via a cloud-based task execution API. We also provide on-premises and edge-hardware implementations of our computing platform for customers who want to use their existing on-site infrastructure and for use cases requiring operation without connection to the cloud.

Our platform is the most cost-effective way to engineer uncertainty quantification applications and is also the fastest way to run uncertainty quantification tasks, for key use cases. Workloads ranging from options pricing and portfolio modeling in finance, to uncertainty quantification for materials modeling and photonics simulation in engineering, often run an order of magnitude or more faster, compared to Monte-Carlo-based implementations running on high-end AWS EC2 instances.

Our team consists of contrarian engineers with combined research, engineering, and leadership experience from Apple, ARM, Bell Labs, CMU, University of Cambridge, IBM Research, MIT, NEC Labs, and University of Oxford. Find out more and try out the Signaloid uncertainty-tracking computing platform by signing up for free for our developer platform, at https://get.signaloid.io.

Role Description

As a successful candidate in this role, you will work closely with Signaloid's founder to enable personal growth of the existing team as well as to bring on board new team members.

During your first year in this role, you will:

• Be responsible for leading and ensuring the success of new personal-growth initiatives.
• Be responsible for refining existing people-related tools and processes to improve outcomes.
• Be responsible for creating improved talent retention and incentive outcomes.
• Be responsible for all aspects of organizing and running Signaloid's quarterly company-wide in-person meetings.

Within a year in this role, you can expect to:

• Contribute to an increasing number of company-wide strategies.
• Lead the implementation of your own talent initiatives in collaboration with the larger team.
• Expand your role to encompass other areas in which you have demonstrated exceptional competence.

Requirements

Minimum Required Skills and Experience:

• Prior experience in a people-related role and familiarity with all aspects of personal growth cycles.
• Excellent written and spoken communication.
• Attention to detail in both prose and numbers.
• Proactive "can-do" mindset.
• Willingness to learn new tools from the team.
• Patience to communicate new ways of doing things to the team.
• Demonstrable willingness to ask questions and internalize technical context of each team member's role.
• Demonstrable analytic abilities and quick comprehension of new topics.
• Eagerness to support a highly-technical team in both their technical and personal growth.
• A willingness to listen to people until they feel understood.
• Honesty, empathy, and a willingness to see the world from the viewpoint of others.

Additional Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Prior experience working in a product-driven advanced technology environment.
• Experience with tools such as Personio.
• Experience with tools such as Workable.
• Experience with Google Workspace.

Our Recruiting Procedure

1. All positions require you to write a brief cover letter that should be no more than one page long. The more concise the better. We use the cover letter to screen for communication skills, as clear communication is essential in a remote working environment.
2. Applicants who pass the cover letter screening receive an initial 15-minute Zoom screening call with the CEO/CTO.
3. Applicants who pass the screening interview will be given a hands-on project relevant to the position your are interviewing for, simple enough to complete in a few hours. You will however have a time window of one week or two weeks (your choice) to complete the exercise.
4. Applicants who successfully complete the hands-on exercise are invited for a set of interviews with people from our core teams. The interviewers will use the hands-on exercise you completed as a discussion point.
5. In the final stage, applicants are invited for an on-site (or "virtual on-site") day with members of the team. During this day, we will work with you on a hands-on simulation of a real working day solving a task relevant to the position you are applying for, working with your potential future colleagues.

Benefits

A flexible remote-first work environment

• Be part of an international team with the flexibility to choose where you live, as long as you are available during the working hours of 09:00 to 17:00 UK time.
• Join the rest of the team several times each year for an in-person session somewhere in Europe.

Competitive compensation

• Yearly bonus based on company's Objectives and Key Results (OKR) performance and bi-yearly bonus based on your project team's OKR performance.
• Simple transparent compensation across the company, with four pay levels, in all roles, based on skill level: Contributor, Senior Contributor, Lead Contributor, and Principal Contributor.
• All full-time employees receive attractive stock options package.

A driven but respectful environment

• We never speak ill of others even if we differ in our viewpoints; we show up every day with a sense of urgency; we treat each other with respect as though each day were our last.
• No isolated "projects": No person in the team works in isolation and a successful outcome for the thread of work you lead will inherently depend on getting help from (and helping) other members of the team.