Head of Talent

Do you wish your work had greater tangible impact? 🌟

At Anima, we’re building the next generation care enablement platform for healthcare teams. You’ll be building a product that saves lives; multiple Clinical Engineers (ex-MDs and fullstack Software Engineers) quit established medical careers to join Anima, for creating impact at scale!

Our mission is to deliver precision medicine to everyone in the world, within 24 hours. We know exactly how to get there and we’re moving ferociously with focus.

Our ambition is to be the OS for all of healthcare and life sciences, through a proprietary active learning, crowdsourcing training architecture - we call it Anima 2.0. We already have one of the biggest, highest quality labelled datasets in the world.

We’re profitable, having grown 450% in 2024, and went from $0 to $4m ARR in 19 months from launch (Apr ’22). Today, we are one of the fastest growing health-tech teams in the world with top 5% of SaaS growth rate - and strong growth endurance with top 5% CAC + gross margins.

Backed by a top 1% VC and Y Combinator (home of epic companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Stripe) 🚀

We were one of the hottest companies of YC’s W21 batch: we raised over $2.5m before Demo Day within 4 days, led by Hummingbird (consistently top 1% of global returns), giving us a runway of 4+ years. In early 2024, we closed an over subscribed Series A round of $12mm, led by Molten Ventures.

We have a pretty unique hacker culture at Anima with a flat hierarchy: almost everyone is technical and can code. A ’knights of the round table’ structure and thinking from first principles is core to our culture, and is how we’ve made such rapid progress**. It’s reflected in how we operate:

1. There’s no separate founder, product & engineering teams - instead, we have Clinical Engineers who are both their own customers (MDs) and are strong full stack engineers, collaborating with pure software engineers. Due to the quality of our team, there’s a heavy focus on coaching and teaching, with minimal to no line management.

   • We’ve been able to make huge strides in the NHS because we all deeply understand the problem, grading tasks based on our engineering expertise, and real life clinical trade-offs. This deep domain knowledge is ultimately how we integrated with the major electronic health records (EMIS and SystmOne) in just 4 months.

2. We’re relentlessly resourceful - in 14 months, we’ve built an extremely loved enterprise app that users have said ’seems too good to be true’. Anima can take an information complete medical history as good or better than a typical human doctor, and automates patient comms and clinical notes. Our gross retention is >90%.

3. Anima is a safe haven for free thinkers and we’ve been careful to build a culture where everyone feels comfortable being their complete unfiltered self, sharing their honest thoughts, feelings without ever needing to self-censor. With a highly selective acceptance rate of around 0.5-0.8%, joining Anima means becoming part of a team with exceptional talent density and your crewmates will never let you down or waste your time.

4. We hire talented people who think from first principles and have high growth potential - great decision makers who deserve to have complete autonomy and are forces of nature when empowered with it. Decisions are never made in isolation by the founders. All information is transparently available to the whole team on our Notion - every meeting, decision, success, failure.

5. At the same time, we are deeply collaborative, and through mutual and self-challenge, we converge towards the optimum, and decisively execute. We are united by child-like intellectual curiosity and experiment and wander freely when the right path isn’t clear. We believe all future managers should be formidable individual contributors & domain experts.

6. We hire candidates from all over the world. We have remote hubs in EU West, NA and India, and plans to seed some in person teams in those areas too in the next 12 months (in addition to our fully remote teams). We offer flexibility over work schedule and location.

7. We have a good time :) we’ve had team lunches in Duck & Waffle, Breakfast Club, dumplings in Chinatown, had private screenings in our own cinema, booked out the Sky Pool etc. We get the whole team together at least twice a year for team retreats, with the last ones in Brittany (France), La Paz (Mexico) and Tuscany (Italy)!

Join Anima and save lives 🌟

Hi - My name is Shun, a medical doctor and CEO of Anima. Thanks for checking out our job ad! We’re tackling a problem that has affected everyone in some way:

• Globally, millions die every year because their medical problems aren’t treated quickly enough. Hundreds of millions suffer pain, worry and discomfort needlessly because of long waiting times.

• We’ve built ambitious software to automate the entire healthcare workflow - from history taking consultations, to report abstraction, to recommending & saving a coded action plan for the patient, ready for a human doctor to greenlight.

• By doing this, we get patients optimal care within 24 hours and 10x the clinical workflow in the process. It’s a win-win for patients and healthcare professionals.

We are pretty unique among health techs: we have both medical and engineering domain expertise - there are 4 doctors working full time at Anima, as well as ’pure’ software engineers. I wrote the first backend in Node. As a doctor and former HM Treasury health policy advisor managing £4bn budgets in UK health spending, I have full stack domain knowledge and personal experience of the problem we’re solving.

Like me, the whole Anima team have personal experience of the problem we’re solving: we’re building what we wished we had as doctors.

Are you passionate about revolutionizing healthcare, saving lives, and being part of a dynamic team? Anima is seeking a Head of Talent to join our rapidly growing company. If you thrive in a collaborative, high-energy environment and have a talent for building deep connections, telling compelling stories, and igniting passion in people, we want to hear from you!

Does this sound like you?

• Hungry and wants their shot to change the world - a force of nature when empowered with the tools, resources and development to do it.

• A gifted relationship builder, able to quickly build rapport and foster deep and meaningful connections.

• Has incredibly high standards for themselves and an unshakeable growth mindset: able to challenge themselves and those around them to push to do things better.

• An execution and getting-things-done machine. You jump head-first into projects with high energy.

• Constant learner, able to quickly absorb and use new information.

• Comfortable with context-switching and multi-tasking within a day.

• Excellent organizational and communication skills with great attention to detail.

• Proven success in recruiting for GTM, growth and revenue leadership roles

As Head of Talent, you will play a crucial part in building our exceptional team! We’re particularly interested if you have demonstrated history of scaling B2B/enterprise SaaS businesses esp. revenue/distribution functions. You will have:

• Been the 1st TA hire and built a high performing team around you

• ‘Led by Example’ with experience in building and coaching TA teams, consistently delivering on recruitment targets.

• Demonstrated success in creating, implementing and coaching recruitment playbooks that drive expansion.

• Proficient in the use of recruitment tools to support the building, analysis, and optimization of recruitment process.

What you might be working on:

• Developing and implementing effective sourcing strategies to attract top-tier talent across the organization.

• Scale up our GTM recruiting process in UKI and eventually US; think about our employer branding

• Help with setting up and running a recruiting pipeline and onboarding process for account executives, account managers and exec-level searches incl. VP Customer Success, 1st VP Marketing etc.

• Running hiring events, building relationships with top-tier sales and CS communities

• Building Deep Community Connection - Engaging with talent from diverse backgrounds to create talent pipelines and, promote Anima as the employer of choice for top-tier talent.

• Partner closely with hiring managers to understand needs, conduct thorough intake sessions to define job requirements and candidate profiles.

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with candidates, providing an excellent and authentic candidate experience throughout the recruitment journey.

• Ensure a smooth onboarding process for new hires.

• Implement feedback mechanisms to continuously refine recruitment processes and enhance the overall talent acquisition strategy.