Head of Talent
Build and lead the talent organization for a fast-growing AI company scaling from 80 to 250 people this year. Personally source/close exceptional senior talent in ML research, engineering, sales and more while building recruiting systems, coaching managers, shaping employer brand and using the company's voice AI product daily.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Personally source, pitch, and close senior candidates including researchers from frontier labs, former founders, and staff engineers with competing offers.
- Build the talent organization from first principles, pairing a small senior team with real AI leverage.
- Hire and lead an exceptional recruiting team, holding hires to the highest bar.
- Instrument the hiring pipeline with metrics such as pass-through rates, source effectiveness, time to offer, and offer acceptance rates; identify bottlenecks proactively.
- Coach hiring managers to excel as interviewers and closers; provide candid feedback to managers and founders when candidates do not meet exceptional standards.
- Design an outstanding candidate experience where candidates feel deeply understood; even rejected candidates should speak positively about the process.
- Partner with the executive team on employer branding to position Wispr as the premier place for impactful work.
- Create creative, competitive offers and navigate complex negotiations involving equity, competing offers, and non-standard structures.
- Act as a power user of the Flow product, providing feedback that shapes the roadmap.
Requirements
- Proven ability to distinguish strong hires from exceptional ones in short conversations.
- Candidates and recruiters trust you; you are perceptive about true motivations and maintain strong relationships even with non-closed candidates.
- Empathetic selling skills with credibility pitching to frontier researchers and early sales hires alike.
- Track record of improbable closes through creativity.
- Ability to attract and lead top recruiters who would follow you.
- Systems and data-oriented thinking; experience scaling hiring through hypergrowth from 100 to 1000+ employees.
- Comfort delivering hard truths to hiring managers and founders about their processes.
- View employer brand as a compounding asset and desire involvement in shaping it.
- Genuine enthusiasm as a power user of Wispr Flow product.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience building talent functions in fast-growing AI companies.
- Background in using voice/AI tools to enhance recruiting workflows.
Skills
Talent Acquisition, Recruiting, Employer Branding, Pipeline Analytics, Interview Coaching, Offer Negotiation, Hypergrowth Scaling, Ai Product Usage
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