Head of Talent
You will own recruiting as the company scales, personally run priority searches, source and close candidates, advise founders and hiring managers, build sourcing and closing systems, define interview architecture, lead a recruiting team, and manage recruiting operations, candidate experience, and reporting.
Responsibilities
- Run priority searches across research, infrastructure, and leadership
- Source candidates through networks, cold outreach, and targeted campaigns
- Close candidates against competing offers
- Advise founders and hiring managers on candidate strategy, leveling, and offers
- Design and run sourcing for frontier research and systems engineering talent
- Build closing playbooks
- Establish recruiting tooling, data, and pipeline visibility
- Define and enforce the hiring bar
- Hire and lead a recruiting team
- Build interview architecture, rubrics, calibration, and debriefs
- Own recruiting operations, candidate experience, and reporting
- Partner with finance and founders on compensation, leveling, and equity strategy
Requirements
- 5+ years of technical recruiting experience
- Experience at a frontier AI lab, top AI startup, or elite technical company
- Experience recruiting ML researchers, frontier research talent, or systems and distributed engineers
- Ability to source and close passive candidates against competing offers
- Experience owning senior and hard-to-fill searches end-to-end
- Player-coach experience
- Candidate quality and leveling judgment
- Recruiting function-building experience
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Flexible work environment
- Visa sponsorship
- Relocation support
- Professional development budget
- Team off-sites
- Conference attendance