Senior Talent Partner

Hi, I'm Lucy - hx's Head of Talent.

I joined hx nearly five years ago when we were 15 people. We're 250 today. Building this team has been some of the best work of my career, in large part because of the people on it - I'm learning constantly, especially as we keep tackling things that have never been done before.

We're now post-Series B, and the US - NYC in particular - is one of the most important growth levers in front of us. The GTM hires we make there over the next two years will shape what hx becomes more than almost anything else we do.

NYC is where the top GTM talent we need lives, and right now we don't have anyone there. So I'm hiring our Senior Talent Partner - US Lead, ideally someone deeply embedded in the NYC GTM hiring world, with the seniority and judgement to work directly with our President, COO and CPO on the hires that shape what hx becomes.

One thing worth flagging early: this is a hybrid role, based in our NYC office, three days a week in person. We're a lean US team of 17, growing fast, and being in the room together is how we build, learn and move at the pace we do. We're looking for someone who's genuinely excited by that, not just willing.

Sounds interesting? Read more about us below.

ABOUT HYPEREXPONENTIAL (HX)

At hyperexponential, we're building the AI-powered platform that enables the world's most critical decisions in a $7 trillion industry: which risks to take, and how to price them. These are decisions that shape real-world outcomes - whether rockets successfully launch into space, autonomous vehicles make it to market, or communities recover after major storms.

Until now, insurance has been making billion-dollar decisions using outdated tools. We're changing that. Our platform brings together data, AI, and human expertise to give insurers the fastest path from submission to decision. We help them move faster, act smarter, and take on more risk with confidence.

Backed by a16z, Highland Europe, and Battery Ventures, we're scaling globally. We are already trusted by nearly 60 of the world's largest insurers, with zero churn and billions in premiums flowing through hx.

What began as a single product in one market has rapidly evolved into a multi-product, multi-territory platform powering every stage of pricing and underwriting. AI is at the core of what we do - from building the world's first domain-specific AI peer programmer for insurance (think GitHub Copilot with a PhD in actuarial science) to shaping agentic workflows that reinvent how this industry operates.

ABOUT THE TALENT TEAM

We're a team of six. Lean, ambitious, and aiming to operate at the frontier of what AI-leveraged hiring can look like. We're all in on AI, and we know we can't afford to get comfortable - AI is changing fast, and so must we.

We're also builders. Anna is building an AI-native interview coach. Oskar is building our own candidate portal. Cait has redesigned our go-live workflow. Dan is going deep on quality of hire. We use a best-in-class stack: Ashby, Metaview, SourceWhale, plus a growing set of agentic sourcing tools - and if you're still hungry, you build your own.

Something I've come to value most about this team is that the work we get to do here isn't really possible everywhere. hx is unusually and deeply invested in hiring - across the leadership team, not just inside Talent. The hiring bar is real, partnership is the operating mode, and people treat us as part of the decision rather than support around it. That's rare.

A lot of what makes Talent at hx different - our rituals, our stack, our hiring philosophy - lives on our Talent hub page https://www.hyperexponential.com/careers/hubs/talent. Worth a read before you apply.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This role reports to me directly. As Senior Talent Partner, you will own and lead US hiring across our GTM and product organisations end-to-end. That spans the most senior, consequential hires - partnering directly with Richard Gunn (President) https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-g-78017b19/, David Spitz (COO) https://linkedin.com/in/davidspitz, and Noel Sequeira (Chief Product Officer) https://www.linkedin.com/in/noelsequeira/, and the broader US leadership team - through to AE, strategic and enterprise sales hiring, technical sales, our founding and growing Customer Success, Partnerships and Marketing teams. It's a senior craft role with a varied portfolio. Some of these hires will be founding-team-shape moments. Others will be the AE hires that build the revenue engine in the US - every one of them moves the number meaningfully.

This is also an outbound-heavy role. We're looking for someone who knows how to generate engagement and replies - someone whose craft turns cold talent into a real pipeline of conversations. With the support of our investor base (a16z and Battery among them), you'll help us build a real presence in NYC, through events, employer brand initiatives, and the quality of every conversation you have in the market.

A note on geography: most of the Talent team is based in London, with Anna in Warsaw. You would be the first of the team in the US - partnering closely with the rest of us across time zones, and anchoring our US hiring presence as the function grows. We've operated this way before and it works, but it does ask for someone who's confident working autonomously, comfortable across geographies, and excited by being our first on-the-ground presence.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• This is a doer role. We care deeply about execution and, alongside it, the experience we create for candidates and hiring managers. Prioritisation, sense of urgency, judgement and the ability to deliver consistently in a fast-paced environment are non-negotiable. The partnering, brand-building and system-level work all sit on top of getting the daily craft right.

• Own US hiring end-to-end across the GTM and product organisations - spanning the most senior, ambiguous searches (founding-team-shape hires, leadership hires) through to strategic and enterprise sales, technical sales, founding and growing Customer Success, Partnerships, and Marketing.

• Operate as an AI-leveraged builder. Ship your own automations, build your own dashboards, design AI-native workflows for hiring, and raise the bar for what a modern talent function can do.

• Run an outbound-heavy operation. Design the targeting, build the messaging, and run the patterns that turn cold talent into committed hxers.

• Help build hx's brand in the US - partnering on events with our investor base to grow our NYC presence, contributing to employer branding initiatives, and using every candidate conversation as a way to build hx's reputation in the market.

• Bring market intelligence back to the business as a regular input - what's happening at peer fintechs, where the bar is moving, what's shifting in comp and expectations across the GTM spread.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO HAVE DONE

• Owned and delivered across the GTM breadth at a high-growth SaaS, fintech or AI company - senior leadership hires alongside enterprise and strategic sellers, customer success, solutions engineers and architects. We're an insurtech, so the book also includes specialist hires like actuarial talent - a rarer but meaningful part of what makes this role interesting.

• Built a real network in the US GTM space - people you've known for years, who answer your messages, who refer to you, who you can pick up the phone to.

• Closed candidates with multiple competing offers - including from top-tier competitors, FAANG-equivalent comp packages, or candidates whose stated motivations didn't match their actual ones

• Used Ashby, Greenhouse, or similar ATSs as a builder, not just a user - designed your own dashboards, shipped your own automations, brought data forward as the opening move in stakeholder conversations.

• Operated in an AI-leveraged talent function: built workflows with AI tooling, shipped automations, and have strong, current opinions on w