People & Talent Lead

TORTUS is a company that collaborates with clinicians and hospitals to provide clinically safe and reliable AI solutions. They are seeking a People & Talent Lead to build and enhance their people function, overseeing the full employee lifecycle from talent acquisition to performance management and engagement.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with hiring managers to deliver an end-to-end recruitment across that allows us to hire great talent
• Build and maintain our employer brand, leveraging our mission and clinical impact as a talent differentiator
• Use selective agency and search partnerships for niche or senior hires
• Act as the primary people partner to the CEO, CTO and leadership team, advising on org design, team dynamics, and people decisions
• Support managers on performance conversations, capability development, and team health
• Be the go-to for employee relations, ensuring a fair and consistent approach
• Develop and embed a performance framework suited to a high-growth, mission-driven environment
• Build out manager capability, coaching and training our growing leadership layer
• Create career frameworks and progression pathways that help us retain great people
• Complete and embed our values work, turning the framework into lived behaviours
• Run engagement initiatives and track sentiment, acting on what you find
• Champion inclusion and psychological safety across a genuinely multi-disciplinary team (clinicians, engineers, AI scientists)
• Own our people policies and ensure they are current, compliant, and accessible
• Manage the people calendar: reviews, pay cycles, onboarding, offboarding
• Use data and reporting to inform decisions and demonstrate people ROI to the board