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About the role
This is the most senior People role in the company, reporting to our COO (based in the UK) and partnering closely with our CEO (based in New York). Your direct team is our UK-based People Director, our UK-based People Enablement Partner, and a US-based People Enablement Partner we're currently hiring into the New York office, and you'll shape how it grows from here. Talent Acquisition sits as a separate function and is not part of this remit today.
What they're looking for
- Significant experience leading a People function at senior level (VP, CPO, or equivalent). You bring real depth across the people discipline. That foundation is essential, but what sets you apart is the ability to operate beyond it
- A track record of sitting at the leadership table and influencing business decisions, not just delivering a People agenda within one
- Strong commercial instincts. You understand how businesses make money, what impacts delivery, where growth gets stuck, and how organizational design affects all of it
- Experience scaling a business through the 100-to-250 headcount phase, with the judgment to know what matters at each stage
- Senior-level fluency with the US market as an employer, including compensation norms, talent dynamics, and the regulatory landscape that shape how People functions operate at scale
- Experience leading a People function across multiple geographies, with the judgment to run a distributed team and a clear grasp of how labor markets, employment frameworks, and cultural norms differ between regions
More about this role
Orbital is the AI platform for real estate legal work.
Real estate shapes the world around us: our homes, our workplaces and our cultural landmarks. It’s the infrastructure that powers everyday life and is the world's largest asset class. Yet behind every single deal, real estate and legal teams work hard to navigate decades-old complexity; manually connecting documents, hidden obligations, geo-spatial context, and multiple parties into a path forward. We connect the legal and physical record, so that path is clearer than ever before. Our mission is to make real estate transactions faster, clearer, and less manual.
Here, you'll be part of changing how the deals behind the largest asset class get transacted, and will help shape the future of real estate.
🚀 We’re building at the forefront of AI technology, without losing the deeply human expertise our clients depend on.
🏢 Orbital is built with former practising real estate lawyers and 250+ years of combined legal expertise. We're purpose-built for the complexity of real estate: accelerating due diligence, drafting and negotiation, and deal coordination with legal-grade precision.
💰 We've just raised a $60m Series B, led by Brighton...
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