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About the Role
Foundry Robotics is seeking a Head of Talent to build and lead the company's recruiting function from the ground up. This role involves owning hiring strategy, process, employer brand, and headcount planning, as well as managing a team of recruiters and sourcers. The Head of Talent will be the authority on hiring practices and responsible for filling critical roles to meet production commitments across diverse areas including robotics research, engineering, manufacturing, and operations.
Responsibilities
- Own Foundry Robotics' talent strategy end to end, from headcount planning and role scoping with hiring managers to offer close
- Hire, manage, and develop a team of recruiters and sourcers, and build the infrastructure — ATS, scorecards, interview loops, comp bands — they operate inside
- Build repeatable, high-signal interview processes for technical, manufacturing, and operations roles, and hold hiring managers to them
- Own the executive and hard-to-fill searches personally, including senior research and manufacturing leadership
- Build the top-of-funnel: sourcing strategy, employer brand, university and technician pipelines, and referral programs
- Own recruiting data and report hiring performance — pipeline health, time to hire, pass-through rates, offer acceptance — to leadership on a regular cadence
- Partner with Finance and leadership on compensation philosophy, leveling, and equity bands
- Serve as the steward of Foundry's culture and hiring bar as the team scales
Requirements
- 8+ years of recruiting experience, including 3+ years leading and managing recruiters
- Demonstrated experience building or materially rebuilding a recruiting function, not just operating inside a mature one
- Track record hiring deep technical talent — robotics, hardware, or software engineers — and closing candidates against competing offers
- Experience hiring non-engineering operational talent at volume: technicians, operators, and shop floor staff
- Fluency in recruiting systems and metrics. You can instrument a funnel, diagnose where it's leaking, and fix it
- Strong enough technical judgment to scope a role with an engineering lead and screen candidates credibly without a hiring manager in the room
- Equally effective in a comp discussion with the founders and on the shop floor talking to a technician about second shift
- Bias toward action, scrappy problem solving, and moving fast without lowering the bar
Skills
- Talent strategy
- Headcount planning
- Role scoping
- Recruiting process management
- Employer branding
- Team management
- ATS management
- Interview process design
- Technical recruiting
- Manufacturing recruiting
- Operations recruiting
- Executive search
- Sourcing strategy
- University recruiting
- Referral programs
- Recruiting data analysis
- Compensation philosophy
- Leveling
- Equity bands
- Culture stewardship
- Hiring bar maintenance
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Full-time
- In-person
Experience Level
- 8+ years of recruiting experience
- 3+ years leading and managing recruiters
Salary/Compensations
- $180,000 to $250,000 USD
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- Generous PTO
About the Company
- Foundry Robotics is building an AI-native robotics manufacturing company focused on deploying advanced assembly and production capability for leading robotics companies and national-security-critical hardware.
- We are reimagining manufacturing through advanced robotics.
- Our mission is to rebuild the American manufacturing industry as an AI-first, assembly-focused, dual-use contract manufacturer.
- We aim to empower manufacturers with intelligent, efficient, and adaptable robotic systems that redefine productivity and quality.
- This is one of the only places where world-class manufacturing operators, mechanical engineers, robotics researchers, and software engineers sit in the same room, building production systems together.
- We are committed to being deeply embedded in the U.S. industrial base. Our focus is simple: build adaptive robotic assembly systems that make American manufacturing scalable, resilient, and competitive again.