# Head of Talent

**Company:** [Kaizen Labs](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/kaizen-labs)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Recruiting
**Salary:** $250k – $300k/yr
**Skills:** Ashby, Juicebox, LinkedIn Recruiter, Applicant Tracking Systems, Recruiting Automation, Ai Recruiting, Employer Branding, Headcount Planning, Executive Search, Talent Strategy
**Posted:** 2026-09-01

> Leads Kaizen’s recruiting function, scaling its systems and team while personally closing senior and executive searches across engineering, go-to-market, operations, and design. Requires experience building talent organizations, managing recruiting teams, partnering with founders, and sourcing hard-to-reach candidates.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and run the recruiting engine, including process, pipeline, reporting, and hiring systems across company functions.
- Own and raise the company-wide hiring bar; personally source and close senior and executive candidates.
- Manage concurrent searches across go-to-market, operations, engineering, and design, from individual contributor through director and executive levels.
- Own and optimize the recruiting stack, including Ashby, Juicebox, and LinkedIn Recruiter; provide leadership with live pipeline reporting and automate coordination work.
- Manage the recruiting team, hire additional recruiters, establish recruiting standards, and support team career growth.
- Evaluate and manage agency partners, negotiate terms, and determine when retained search firms are appropriate.
- Establish the employer brand in the New York City and Washington, DC markets.
- Partner with the COO and founding team on headcount planning and talent strategy.

## Requirements
- Experience scaling a talent function through significant headcount growth, with demonstrable outcomes.
- Experience partnering directly with founders and company leadership.
- Strong understanding of and relationships within the New York City engineering community.
- Experience managing recruiters, coordinators, and sourcers, including career development.
- Experience running concurrent searches across engineering and go-to-market functions, including senior and executive roles and roles without obvious candidate pools.
- Hands-on use of AI and automation in recruiting workflows.
- Experience configuring an applicant tracking system; Ashby experience is preferred.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Recruiting experience in government, defense technology, or another regulated industry.
- Experience running or managing retained executive searches.
- Interest in expanding into broader people operations.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: $250,000–$300,000.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully covered for employees and dependents.
- $100,000 fully paid life insurance; FSA and Dependent Care FSA.
- One Medical membership and fertility and family-building support.
- 401(k) with a 2% company match.
- Fully paid parental leave: 16 weeks for birthing parents and 10 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Unlimited PTO with a two-week minimum, federal holidays, and a company winter break.
- Home office setup stipend, commuter benefit, expensed office lunches, and company-provided laptop.
- Fully covered gym membership for office-based employees or fitness reimbursement for remote employees.
- Utility, professional development, recreation, and pet care stipends.

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