Head of People & Talent

About Odin Odin is building the investment infrastructure for the future of private markets. We believe capital is one of the most powerful tools for shaping the world - and more people should be putting it to work. Our mission is to make it radically easier to raise and deploy capital, so that anyone, anywhere, can back the companies and ideas they believe in. Our first product is a full-stack platform for launching and running private investment firms - think Shopify for VC and PE. We handle all the infrastructure: from legals and investor onboarding to KYC/AML, payments, tax, reporting, and exits. We’re already trusted by over 10,000 angels, VCs, and founders. We administer over $500m in assets, covering investments from pre-seed to series E. This includes household names like ElevenLabs, OpenAI, SpaceX, xAI, Anduril, etc. but also new companies creating everything from synthetic brains to small nuclear reactors. The Role Reporting to our Head of People & Talent, you will play a key role in how Odin runs its office, supports its team, and creates a high-quality experience for the people who interact with us, from employees and new joiners to candidates, founders, investors and wider ecosystem. This is primarily an office, operations, and events role. You’ll help make sure the office runs smoothly day to day, support the team with the practical things that help them do great work, and coordinate events that strengthen Odin’s presence in the startup and private markets ecosystem. It’s also a role with exposure to people operations, onboarding, and internal process improvement. Over time, there is scope to get involved in how we use AI to build smarter ways of working across the function. Your responsibilities will include: * External events and ecosystem activity: Support the logistics for Odin events with customers, founders, investors, and wider ecosystem. This could include booking venues, coordinating suppliers, managing guest lists, supporting comms, and helping with on-the-day set-up and pack-down. * People operations: Support the day-to-day running of our people processes, from expense management to keeping our HRIS and employee data accurate and up to date. * Office management: Keep the office running smoothly day to day. This includes managing supplies, liaising with building management, making sure the space is well-stocked and well-presented, and being the go-to person for practical on-site support. * Team experience: Help create a thoughtful and well-organised day-to-day experience for the team, from making sure the office works well to supporting the moments that help people feel informed, and able to do their best work. * Onboarding: Support a smooth, well-organised experience from offer acceptance to first day, including IT set-up, equipment, office preparation, and cross-functional coordination. * Broader People and Talent projects: Contribute across engagement, employer brand, operator network, and community-building initiatives as priorities shift. You’ll play a hands-on role in how we grow, nurture, and strengthen the communities around Odin About You We’re looking for someone exceptionally organised, resourceful, and proactive to help build a high-performance culture at Odin and support the events that define us in the founder and investor communities we serve. The job is demanding. There are more than a few things to do at any moment, and we need someone who can take ownership, move fast, and get the details right without being asked twice. Must-Have * At least a 4+ years experience in events or people operations * You see the brand in every detail. Events, systems, swag, follow-up emails - they’re all just different ways that Odin shows up for the people who interact with it. * You have coordinated something logistically complex, whether professionally or otherwise. * You care about people experience. You notice when something could feel better for someone, whether that is an onboarding flow, an event, or a process, and you want to fix it. * You are energised by variety and by people. Whether you are setting up for an event or fixing a broken process, you show up with the same level of care and enthusiasm. * You handle a busy inbox without dropping things, juggle ten conversations in a morning, and can hold your own with a demanding founder or investor. * You stay calm under pressure, and are persuasive when it counts. If a supplier flakes the night before or the venue is double booked, you handle it. Nice to Have * You have used AI tools in a hands-on way, building automations, workflows, or anything beyond basic prompting. * You are someone who can actively identify where LLMs and automation can improve how we work, and help build it. This could be workflows, people dashboards, onboarding automations, or internal tools. If you are someone obsessed with removing the most manual, time-consuming parts of running a people function, we want to hear from you. We know this role covers a lot of ground, and you may not tick every box. If you haven't had the chance to work with AI or LLMs yet but you are exceptionally organised, thrive in a varied role, and have experience organising events, managing logistics and supporting people, we would still love to hear from you. The Hiring Process 1. Initial Call: Meet with Imani, our Head of People & Talent, to discuss the role, your experience, and ensure alignment (20 mins) 2. Deep Dive Interview: An in-depth conversation with Imani to unpack your experience and motivations (1 hour) 3. Workshop: Spend time with Mary & Imani to assess how well you could do the role in practice (1 hour) 4. Final Interviews: Meet with Mary and Paddy, our Founders, for an in-depth discussion about our values and vision (2 hours) Salary The salary band for this role is £40,000 - £60,000 + equity options. During the hiring process, we'll assess your experience and capabilities using our internal levelling framework to determine your starting salary. Working at Odin We’re a London-based team, and for this role being in the office makes a real difference. The speed and intensity we operate at make in-person collaboration crucial, and we expect at least three days per week in the office. Given the nature of the role and cadence of events, there will be periods occasional where you may be in person up to five days per week or required to flex hours to be available for events that could run during the evening or fall on the weekend. Benefits * Health: Private health insurance (Vitality), paid sick leave including support for pregnancy loss and fertility treatments, and access to Spill for mental health support * Wellness: £1,000 annual budget for health, therapy or fitness * Parental Leave: Enhanced maternity, adoption, paternity and partner leave * Pension: 4% employer contribution with salary sacrifice options * Time Off: 25 days annual leave, 2 wellness days and flexible bank holidays (33 days total) * Work From Anywhere: Up to 6 weeks per year working from anywhere globally * Birthday Leave: An additional day of leave

About Odin Private markets are overdue a design transformation, and there is still no design-led company setting the standard for the category. Most products in the space look and feel like a bank statement from 2009. We’re looking for someone to help us change that. Odin is building infrastructure for the future of private markets. We believe capital is one of the most powerful tools for shaping the world - and more people should be putting it to work. Our mission is to make it radically easier to raise and deploy capital, so that anyone, anywhere, can back the companies and ideas they believe in. Our first product is a full-stack platform for launching and running private investment firms - think Shopify for VC and PE. We handle all the infrastructure: from legals and investor onboarding to KYC/AML, payments, tax, reporting, and exits. We’re already trusted by over 10,000 angels, VCs, and founders. We administer over $500m in assets, covering investments from pre-seed to series E. This includes household names like ElevenLabs, OpenAI, SpaceX, xAI, Anduril, etc. but also new companies creating everything from synthetic brains to small nuclear reactors. Mission We’re looking for a senior design leader who combines exceptional visual craft with systems-level product thinking. You’ll play a central role in defining and elevating the customer experience at Odin as we prepare for a major US launch. The scope here is intentionally broad. Your remit spans across product and visual brand identity. You’ll help evolve our brand identity alongside the founders, expressing the philosophy, ambition and cultural stance of a company that is rethinking what progress means and how we get there. Working with our existing designer, our Head of Product and the wider product team, you’ll help set the design direction for the company, raise the quality bar and shape how design operates as we grow. You’ll bring experience and conviction to make strong design decisions quickly, while creating the systems, practices and feedback loops that allow consistently excellent work to scale. You’ll remain close to the work: exploring complex problems, building and testing prototypes, speaking directly with customers and translating what you learn into polished, production-ready experiences. You won’t be stepping into a finished structure. You’ll be helping to shape the next stage of it. Your remit spans both product and brand. You’ll turn complex, regulation-heavy workflows and dense interfaces into experiences that feel clear, intuitive and inevitable. Your Must-Have Qualities We value designers who combine rigorous reasoning, high agency, exceptional craft and deep customer empathy. You’ll succeed in this role if you are: * Deeply user-centric: You advocate for the customer and care about how people experience the product. You use interviews, data and observation to understand real behaviour—not just what users say. * Exceptional in your craft: You have a highly developed eye for composition, hierarchy, interaction and detail. You create polished, cohesive experiences and hold the shipped product to a very high standard. * Reasoned and curious: You challenge assumptions, ask sharp questions and look for root causes rather than applying surface-level fixes. * Decisive with strong judgment: You make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, quality, complexity and compliance. You explore enough to make an informed decision, form a clear point of view and move quickly. * High agency: You don’t wait for perfect information or detailed direction. You identify what needs to happen, bring others with you and take responsibility for moving the work forward. * Systematic about discovery: You build repeatable ways of learning from customers, test assumptions early and establish regular feedback loops rather than treating research as a one-off stage. * Clear and collaborative: You articulate your thinking simply, write clearly and give engineers the context and detail needed to build what was intended. You debate constructively, respond well to feedback and operate with conviction without ego. * Comfortable with complexity and ambiguity: You create structure from incomplete information and navigate technical, regulatory and operational constraints without losing momentum. * Outcome-driven: You care about what happens after something ships. You measure impact and ensure your work genuinely improves the customer experience, business outcomes or operational efficiency. Your Experience Must-Have * 8+ years of product design experience, with a strong track record of shaping complex products end to end. * Experience as an early or senior designer within a high-growth product team. * In-house experience, with ownership of complete customer journeys rather than isolated screens. * A portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual design, polished production-ready UI and measurable business or customer impact. * Strong information architecture, interaction design and prototyping skills. * The ability to produce high-quality work at pace, make confident visual decisions and maintain a consistently high bar across the product. * Strong systems thinking, with experience designing complete workflows spanning user actions, communications, automations, permissions, operational processes and technical constraints. * Experience designing complex, multi-party products or working within regulated environments. * The ability to independently lead discovery, including customer interviews, assumption validation, prototyping, usability testing and iteration. * Experience establishing structured, repeatable customer-research and feedback practices. The Hiring Process 1. Interview with Imani, our Head of People & Talent – In this session, you’ll unpack the role and learn more about us, while she ensures you're the right fit for the position (30-45 mins). 2. Interview with Mary, our Co-CEO & Co-Founder – During this initial interview, we’ll touch on topics like culture, values, and your experience to see if there’s alignment on both sides (60 mins). 3. Live Workshop with Mary and Laurits, our Head of Product – This session will focus on your product and systems thinking. (90 mins) 4. Live Workshop with Mary and Laurits – This is where we assess visual craft with a narrowly scoped, UI-focused task. (90 mins) 5. Trial Day (Paid) – We’d like to make an offer, but want to ensure that you experience working with us in a real-world setting and get a feel for our team dynamics and processes. This trial allows both sides to see if the fit is right before making a long-term commitment, ensuring mutual success. We'll fly you to the UK to meet the team in-person. Our process typically runs over two weeks. We share detailed feedback within 24 hours of each interview stage and aim to line up next steps quickly so momentum isn’t lost. Salary The salary band for this role is £105,00 - £135,000 + equity options. During the hiring process, we'll assess your experience and capabilities to determine your starting salary. Working at Odin We’re a London-based team. This is a role where being in the office - working closely with the founders and wider teams - makes a real difference. The speed and intensity we operate at make in-person collaboration crucial, and we expect at least three days per week in the office. Benefits * Health: Private health insurance (Vitality), paid sick leave including support for pregnancy loss and fertility treatments, and access to Spill for mental health support * Wellness: £1,000 annual budget for health, therapy or fitness * Parental Leave: Enhanced maternity, adoption, paternity and partner leave * Pension: 4% employer contribution with salary sacrifice options * Time Off: 25 days annual leave, 2 wellness days and flexible bank holidays (33 days total) * Work From Anywhere: Up to 6 weeks per year working from anywhere globally * Birthday Leave: An additional day of leave