Principal Talent Partner

The role

The Principal Talent Partner will lead hiring for senior and business-critical roles including executive leadership, VP-level leaders, and principal-level individual contributor engineers. This role involves partnering with the C-Suite to manage end-to-end recruiting and closing complex offers.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end recruiting for executive, VP-level, and principal/staff-level IC engineers
• Partner with the CEO, founders, and senior leaders on search strategy and role definition
• Deliver an exceptional candidate experience
• Act as the primary closer for high-impact hires
• Manage competing offers, equity-heavy compensation, and relocation
• Build and maintain long-term relationships with senior technical and leadership talent
• Design rigorous and efficient interview processes
• Translate complex technical and business context into narratives for candidates
• Provide real-time market insight and feedback to leadership
• Uphold discretion and professionalism in candidate interactions

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of recruiting experience, including senior-level or executive hiring
• Experience in deep tech, hardware, infrastructure, or highly technical environments
• Proven ability to close senior candidates in competitive markets without agency support
• Exceptional judgment, emotional intelligence, and executive presence
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity in an early-stage environment
• High attention to detail, confidentiality, and candidate care
• Clear communicator who can translate complex technical and business contexts to candidates

Nice to have

• In-house experience at Series A-C startups
• Experience recruiting in niche or emerging technical domains
• Comfort influencing leveling, scope, and compensation strategy

Benefits

• Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and dependents
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k retirement savings plan through Empower
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Paid sick days
• Paid company holidays
• Commuter Benefits
• 100% paid maternal leave (12 weeks)
• Paternal leave (6 weeks)

About the company

Amperesand is building hardware and software to rewrite power infrastructure for a new era of energy abundance. The company has hubs in San Francisco, Reno, and Singapore.