Head of Talent & People

The role

The Head of Talent & People will scale the hiring engine and build the people foundation for the company. This role involves owning talent acquisition end-to-end and managing people and culture across the employee lifecycle.

What you will do

• Own talent acquisition end-to-end, including the hiring plan for an upcoming wave of growth.
• Recruit hands-on as a player-coach across R&D and GTM.
• Help bring the existing hiring system to the next level using AI tooling.
• Run the function using talent intuition and data to track funnel health, time to fill, pass-through rates and offer acceptance.
• Partner with and mentor hiring leaders to ensure a consistent, high-bar process.
• Shape the headcount plan and compensation bands alongside Finance.
• Own people and culture across the employee lifecycle.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years across talent acquisition, including having built and led recruiting at a high-growth startup or scale-up.
• Experience building a talent function and its systems, including process, metrics and tooling.
• Proven hiring across technical and go-to-market roles at volume.
• Ability to recruit hands-on by sourcing, assessing and closing candidates.
• Experience managing recruiters and coaching hiring managers.
• Experience shaping culture at a scaling company through onboarding, performance or employee-experience programs.
• Use of AI and automation in recruiting work.

Nice to have

• Senior or executive hiring experience.
• Managed multiple hiring motions such as legal operators or high-volume operations roles in a regulated field.
• Experience at an AI-native company, or at a company through both early stage and scale.
• Experience leading or partnering closely with People Ops on onboarding, performance and the rest of the employee lifecycle.

Before you apply

• Initial conversation about background, motivation, and the role.
• Casual sync with an internal recruiter.
• Structured exercise to understand approach to scaling an end-to-end hiring engine.
• Onsite visit to the NYC office to meet the team and have lunch.

About the company

Finch is building an applied AI platform for consumer law. The company is growing 1,000%+ year-over-year and is backed by Sequoia and Redpoint.