🐐 Head of Talent Engineering
Core
Design and build systems to source, attract, and close top-tier engineering, design, and operator talent for a startup.
Role type
Head of Talent Engineering (Founder-track)
Builds
Sourcing systems, scrapers, dashboards, outreach pipelines, and talent marketing experiments.
Domain
Startup operations / Talent acquisition / Systems engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery
Required skills
Systems design, data scraping, pipeline engineering, LLM workflows, talent marketing, funnel analysis, contrarian thinking, founder-track energy
Preferred skills
Early career (new grad/recent grad/dropout), high slope, underestimated background, technical ability to wire up scrapers
Technologies
Scrapers, dashboards, LLM workflows, monitoring engines
Responsibilities
Design and run experiments in sourcing and talent marketing; Build systems to track and engage high-slope candidates; Convince top engineers, designers, and operators to join; Create dashboards treating talent as a funnel; Leverage founder/investor networks to unlock warm channels; Iterate on a recruiting playbook for 2025+
Seniority
Early career, founder-track