Founding Talent

The role

You will own the talent function at Kepler, managing how the company finds, wins, and retains top engineering talent. You will build the recruiting process, employer brand, and data-driven pipelines from scratch.

What you will do

• Own talent at Kepler including sourcing, winning, and maintaining the hiring bar
• Map existing team relationships to identify potential engineering hires
• Design custom winning strategies for key individuals
• Manage live senior searches
• Host technical events for engineers in New York
• Rethink closing strategies against strong competitors
• Fix and optimize the recruiting process
• Manage outbound and agency partners
• Build the talent function including network, process, brand, and data
• Decide when to open new seats

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in recruiting, most of it technical
• Experience in-house at a fast-growing startup with a high bar
• Experience personally sourcing and closing senior engineers against AI labs and big tech
• Experience running campaigns to win single individuals
• Experience building recruiting from scratch including pipeline, interview loops, scorecards, and reporting
• Ability to run a funnel based on data
• AI fluency

Nice to have

• Ability to build own agents and automations with Claude and Ashby

Benefits

• 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and families
• HSA maxed by the company to the IRS limit
• Automatic coverage for life, AD&D, and disability insurance
• Daily lunch in office
• Unlimited PTO policy
• Development environment budget including MacBook Pro, monitors, and ergonomic setup
• Build anything budget for tools, libraries, datasets, or infrastructure
• Learning budget for conferences, courses, or programs

About the company

Kepler is an agent harness providing an infrastructure layer to make AI outputs reliable, traceable, and verifiable. The founding team includes former Palantir and Meta employees.