About the Founding Head of Talent Hiring is one of the most important things we do. We're looking for our first Head of Talent to build the function from the ground up. This is a company-building role, not an HR role. You'll work directly with founders to answer: What should we hire next? How do we attract exceptional people before everyone else? How do we maintain our talent bar while scaling? How do we build a recruiting engine that compounds?
You'll own recruiting end-to-end while helping shape org design, hiring philosophy, interview quality, and how we scale as a company.
What You'll Do- Own company-wide hiring across engineering, AI, product, GTM, operations, clinical, manufacturing, and leadership
- Partner with founders on hiring priorities, org design, and hiring plans based on milestones
- Lead executive and difficult searches
- Build sourcing strategies and structured interview processes that prioritize signal
- Build recruiting infrastructure, operations, training, and analytics
- Improve offer acceptance and candidate experience while maintaining an exceptional talent bar
- Make Hike a company exceptional people want to join
Who You Are- You've built recruiting inside a fast-growing startup, ideally from Seed through Series B/C
- You're equally comfortable sourcing a senior AI engineer, manufacturing leader, or enterprise sales executive
- You think like an operator, not a recruiter
- You care deeply about talent density
- You're resourceful, move quickly, and enjoy building systems from scratch
- You don't need excessive process to produce great outcomes
- You enjoy spending time with candidates and hiring managers
