Head of Talent & Hiring

The role

This leader will build a recruiting and people operations function for a fast-growing technical team. They will partner with executives and hiring managers to execute the hiring plan.

What you will do

• Own recruiting strategy and execution across technical, operational, and leadership roles.
• Partner with hiring managers to define roles, build interview plans, calibrate evaluation, and maintain decision quality.
• Create a reliable operating cadence for sourcing, pipeline management, candidate communication, and hiring metrics.
• Strengthen candidate experience, employer narrative, offer processes, onboarding handoffs, and recruiting systems.
• Build scalable people processes while keeping the function practical for an early-stage company.

Required qualifications

• Experience leading recruiting or talent acquisition for high-growth, technically demanding teams.
• Track record partnering closely with executives and hiring managers on role definition and hiring decisions.
• Strong operational discipline across recruiting systems, processes, metrics, and candidate communication.
• Sound judgment, discretion, and the ability to balance speed with a high quality bar.

Nice to have

• Experience hiring across aerospace, hardware, software, AI, defense, or scientific disciplines.
• Experience building recruiting operations and people processes at an early-stage company.
• Experience developing employer branding, sourcing programs, and structured interviewing practices.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation based on experience
• Early-stage equity package
• 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
• Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths

Before you apply

• Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, a lawful permanent resident (green card holder), or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State to comply with U.S. expo

About the company

Matter is building the future of vision AI by pairing a sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model. The team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL and designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense.