Head of Talent

The role

You will own how Hellyeah finds and wins people by managing hiring agents and conducting searches. You will scope roles, map markets, and close senior candidates through technical and manual processes.

What you will do

• Scope searches and agree on ranked skills and experience with hiring managers
• Push back on vague or mis-leveled roles
• Decide which searches to run personally and which to outsource
• Build lists of people who could do priority roles
• Work through teammate networks and run referrals as a system
• Find warm intros and manage the closing process for candidates
• Set rules for hiring agents and debug their runs by reading logs and code
• Build or drive the build of hiring automation with engineers
• Maintain honest evaluations using work samples and paid work trials
• Make hiring visible to founders and hiring managers

Required qualifications

• A record of your own hires, most of them senior and in engineering, research or AI
• Experience personally closing senior people who were not looking
• Experience mapping a market by hand
• Experience scoping roles with hiring managers
• Experience putting recruiting automation into live use
• A strong network in San Francisco or Shanghai
• Technical depth to read code and logs and debug agent runs
• Ability to write specs that engineers or coding agents can build from
• Knowledge of offer craft including equity and competing offers
• Daily use of coding agents
• Experience carrying several live searches at once
• Written English for daily work with teammates in the US, China and India

Nice to have

• Built a recruiting function from scratch at a fast-growing startup
• Executive search experience
• Hired in both San Francisco and Shanghai
• Worked as an engineer or run technical screens
• Designed work samples or paid work trials
• Clay, ATS APIs or similar tools you've extended
• Chinese, for the San Francisco seat

Before you apply

• If one of us reached out to you first, you skip the application
• Process includes a 30-minute application
• Process includes a conversation with our CTO
• Process includes a take-home of up to 3 hours
• Process includes a 30-minute live session, reference calls, and a paid work trial

About the company

Hellyeah is the agentic operating system for distribution. AI agents plan, execute and optimize growth work, and humans approve it.