# Founding People Lead (m/f/d)

About Optiml Optiml is transforming real estate with Real Estate Decision Intelligence (REDI), an AI-powered decision technology that helps decarbonize buildings while optimizing asset and portfolio financial performance. Our platform helps investors, owners, and asset managers make clearer capital allocation and decarbonisation decisions by translating complex regulatory, financial, and technical constraints into actionable renovation and investment plans. Founded as an ETH Zurich spin-off, Optiml launched its first product in April 2024 and is now scaling across Europe and the US, with teams based in Zurich, London, and across Germany/the EU. The company is backed by leading US and European investors, including Innovation Endeavors (the fund of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt), Planet A Ventures, KOMPAS, BitStone Capital, and The Bau Ventures. Following an oversubscribed €8M Seed round, we are accelerating product development and go-to-market execution. The opportunity We are looking for a Founding People Lead (m/f/d) to build Optiml's people function from the ground up. You will get the chance to treat People Ops like a product, designing automated systems instead of running the

- **Id**: 1039827
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/optiml-founding-people-lead-mfd-2>
- **Role**: HR
- **Role family**: HR
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-13T09:31:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T00:05:23Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 122
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5070
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Real Estate, PropTech, Real Estate AI, ESG & Carbon Accounting Software

## Company

- **Id**: 449956
- **Name**: Optiml
- **Domain**: optiml.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/optiml>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Join

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 68000
- **Max usd**: 146000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 18

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Notion** — Optional: no
- **Slack** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 121

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-18T18:26:51Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-09-21T21:51:03Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-08T23:13:24Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 19
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.53
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 122
- **Expected fill days**: 80
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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