Head of People: Build Our Hiring Engine & Scale Culture

Azoma; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Azoma in London is seeking its first Head of People to build the entire people function from the ground up, including the hiring engine, org design and performance systems, ready to scale across London, Toronto and the US. You will partner with the founders, report to the CEO, and create the policies, processes and rhythms that support rapid growth while preserving culture, speed and accountability.

This builder role demands pragmatic compliance, a high-bar mindset and hands-on execution to

Qualifications

• You have built people functions in a fast-scaling B2B SaaS or technology business, ideally through Series A to Series B.
• You are a systems thinker who ships. You would rather implement a working scorecard this week than perfect a framework next quarter.
• You hold a high bar and defend it. You are comfortable telling a hiring manager that a candidate does not meet the standard, and equally comfortable moving fast when one clearly does.
• You believe the best cultures are built on excellence, candour and accountability, and that the fairest process is one where every candidate and every employee is judged on the same objective criteria: skills, evidence and results.
• You are pragmatic on compliance. You know UK employment law well and can operate confidently across Canadian and US requirements.
• You thrive in intensity. Azoma moves quickly, and you find that energising rather than exhausting.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the hiring operating system. Build a scalable recruitment engine capable of supporting rapid headcount growth: role prioritisation, hiring scorecards, interview discipline, onboarding, candidate experience and recruitment reporting.
• Maintain hiring cadence in line with commercial growth. The business is moving fast. Recruitment cannot be the bottleneck.
• Partner with founders on organisational design. Work with the founders and senior team to define the 12-month organisation structure, reporting lines, spans of control and role accountabilities.
• Professionalise hiring quality without slowing the business down. Introduce consistent, objective hiring standards across sales, customer success, product, engineering, marketing and operations, while preserving the founder-led urgency that has driven our traction to date.
• Build the core people infrastructure from scratch. Implement the policies, systems, processes, documentation and people rhythms required for a scaling UK, Canada and US-facing business.
• Create a performance management framework fit for a scale-up. Establish clear goals, expectations, feedback loops, performance calibration, manager accountability and development processes.
• Reduce founder dependency in people and team development. Protect founder bandwidth by taking ownership of organisational development, team coaching, culture, hiring discipline and the people-related operating cadence.
• Prepare the company for international expansion. Ensure Azoma has the right people infrastructure for its London and Toronto footprint and planned US entry.

Job description

Azoma in London is seeking its first Head of People to build the entire people function from the ground up, including the hiring engine, org design and performance systems, ready to scale across London, Toronto and the US. You will partner with the founders, report to the CEO, and create the policies, processes and rhythms that support rapid growth while preserving culture, speed and accountability.

This builder role demands pragmatic compliance, a high-bar mindset and hands-on execution to