Head of Talent

The role

You will own hiring from end to end and lead a small team of recruiters. You will personally source and close important searches while improving hiring systems and plans.

What you will do

• Build and own the hiring plan with the Leadership teams.
• Personally run critical searches, such as senior leadership positions, from sourcing through close.
• Set up and run Ashby as the system of record.
• Design structured interview loops, scorecards and debrief rules.
• Train interviewers.
• Partner with founders and hiring managers on leveling, compensation bands and offer construction.
• Hire, coach and lead a small recruiting team.
• Manage agencies and other hiring partners against clear metrics.
• Build Hyperbolic's reputation through referrals, events, engineering content and a candidate experience.

Required qualifications

• Built or owned the recruiting function at a fast-growing startup.
• Personally sourced and closed technical hires, including leadership roles.
• Comfortable carrying own searches while leading a small team of recruiters.
• Set up recruiting systems from scratch such as an ATS like Ashby or Greenhouse, structured interviews, scorecards and metrics.
• Can hold a credible conversation with a senior talent.
• Can push back on founders and hiring managers with data.

Nice to have

• Scaled a company to three or more times its size as its first or early talent hire.
• Experience at a neocloud, hyperscaler, AI lab, GPU cloud, or infrastructure company.
• An active network among AI and infrastructure engineers, through referrals, communities, events or speaking.
• Built a recruiting metrics dashboard that leadership used to make decisions.

About the company

Hyperbolic is making global AI compute liquid by bringing fragmented, heterogeneous GPU capacity together into one unified, productive platform. They are building toward a future where compute flows as freely as electricity.