Head of Talent

The role

The founding Head of Talent will own every open search from scoping to close. You will build the hiring function and recruiting infrastructure for the company.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle recruiting for every open role
• Turn ambiguous mandates into role definitions, calibrated bars and structured interview loops
• Build top of funnel from scratch including talent maps and warm pipelines
• Run searches for senior researchers and operators who are not looking
• Close exceptional people on substance and relationship
• Stand up recruiting infrastructure including applicant tracking and pipeline reporting
• Own people foundations including leveling and offer frameworks
• Hire and lead recruiters if and when the team needs them

Required qualifications

• Ten or more years in talent, including leading recruiting as a head of recruiting, director or founding recruiter at a research organization, frontier technology company or another environment with a
• Took an organization through rapid early scaling
• Personally hired senior scientists, engineers and operators, closing against offers from the best companies in the world
• Track record of building relationships with hard-to-reach candidates who are not actively looking or who need a highly personalized process
• Can hold your own in a substantive conversation about insect behavior, chemistry, machine learning and malaria vector control
• Operate with discipline, discretion and care without needing a large team around you

Nice to have

• Experience spanning recruiting and people operations, including leveling, compensation design and onboarding
• Time in mission-driven organizations, and a record of hiring for first-of-their-kind roles
• Experience advising founders on talent strategy, org design and compensation
• Deep interest in the science, and in the people and institutions shaping vector control and crop protection

About the company

monarchcrops offers opportunities to do your life's work while helping solve one of the most important technical and moral challenges of our time.