Head of Talent Acquisition

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of recruiters, sourcers, and coordinators, owning their performance, development, and growth.
• Build the talent attraction engine, including sourcing strategy, employer brand, and candidate experience to compete for top AI-native talent.
• Ensure fairness and equity in the recruiting process to welcome candidates from all backgrounds.
• Own the recruiting stack (Ashby ATS and sourcing tools), evaluate and adopt AI-native recruiting tools.
• Strengthen interview rigor with structured processes, scorecards, and calibration for consistent, predictive feedback.
• Own team outcomes by setting and reporting on metrics such as time to fill, funnel conversion, and quality of hire; build trustworthy dashboards.
• Partner on headcount strategy with the Head of People and business leaders to translate growth plans into hiring capacity, sequencing, and budget.
• Personally run specialized searches for senior, executive, and highly specialized roles.
• Lead international and new-market hiring, building playbooks for sourcing, market-specific practices, and compliant hiring.
• Scope roles that don't exist yet by partnering with leadership to define new roles and competencies as AI reshapes the market.
• Scale repeatable systems by building hiring playbooks by function.
• Develop the team's craft through training on process, tools, and evaluation standards.

Requirements

• 8+ years building talent programs and leading recruiting teams, ideally at fast-growing companies that outgrew their processes.
• Experience building talent functions from the ground up, defining what "good" looks like.
• AI fluency: use AI tools in your own workflow and can apply this to sourcing, evaluating, and attracting AI-native candidates.
• Hands-on experience owning an ATS and personally evaluating new sourcing and AI tools.
• Comfortable personally leading executive or highly specialized hiring, in addition to high-volume roles.
• Experience hiring in multiple countries, opening new markets, and adapting to geography-specific hiring practices, comp, and compliance.
• Ability to track emerging roles and titles in the AI industry and translate fuzzy needs into job descriptions and leveling frameworks.
• Strong coaching skills to develop a growing team with patience and investment in development.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience at companies that scaled rapidly.
• Deep understanding of how AI is reshaping talent needs and categories of work.
• Track record of building dashboards and metrics that leadership trusts.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary range: $180,000–$220,000, depending on experience and level.
• Eligible for meaningful equity.
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents.
• Flexible time off.
• Retirement and financial planning benefits, including pre-tax HSA, FSA, commuter accounts, 401(k), and financial coaching.
• Comprehensive wellness benefits, including physical fitness, mental well-being, and fertility/family-building benefits.
• Complimentary in-office lunches and snacks.
• Access to state-of-the-art AI models and generous usage of modern AI tools.
• Ownership of high-impact projects across top enterprises.
• Mission-driven, fast-moving culture valuing curiosity, pragmatism, and excellence.