Head of Talent
Skills
About the Role
You will build and scale the recruiting function, partner with founders and leadership to define hiring strategy and prioritize roles, and lead searches for engineering and infrastructure positions. You will establish end-to-end recruiting processes, design structured interview frameworks, develop creative sourcing strategies, and define and track recruiting metrics and reporting to optimize funnel efficiency and candidate experience.
Requirements
- 7+ years of recruiting experience with 2–3+ years owning or leading a recruiting function
- Proven track record as an early or first recruiter building hiring processes and systems
- Experience hiring highly technical talent including software engineers, infrastructure, and AI/ML roles
- Experience recruiting across technical and business functions in high-growth environments
- Deep understanding of recruiting metrics and pipeline management
- Ability to translate company goals into structured hiring plans and clear recruiting priorities
- Strong sourcing and candidate closing capabilities
- Experience designing structured interview processes and calibration frameworks
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity with a hands-on execution focus
- Strong cross-functional partnering and influence with leadership
- Preferred: experience in cloud infrastructure, AI/ML, or developer tools companies
- Preferred: background in venture-backed or high-growth startups
- Preferred: experience building employer brand and talent positioning
- Preferred: familiarity with Greenhouse, LinkedIn, and sourcing systems
- Preferred: experience building and managing recruiting teams
Responsibilities
- Build and scale the recruiting function
- Define hiring strategy and prioritize roles
- Establish end-to-end recruiting processes
- Design and implement structured interview frameworks
- Lead searches for engineering and infrastructure roles
- Develop creative sourcing strategies
- Define and track recruiting metrics and reporting
- Optimize funnel efficiency and candidate experience