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About the Role
We are seeking a founding Head of Talent to build and lead the hiring function for the Foundation from the ground up. This player-coach role involves owning full-cycle recruiting, partnering with senior leaders, and building recruiting infrastructure to support rapid growth without compromising quality. You will personally manage key searches and lay the groundwork for a growing team, reporting to the Director of Operations.
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting across the Foundation, from role scoping and intake through sourcing, candidate experience, offer design, and close.
- Partner with founding leaders across all four programs to define roles, set hiring bars, and structure interview processes.
- Build top-of-funnel sourcing strategies, talent maps, and pipelines for diverse talent.
- Design and execute interview processes, including scorecards, debriefs, and calibration, to ensure high quality.
- Close exceptional, mission-aligned candidates by demonstrating fluency in the work and honesty about trade-offs.
- Establish essential recruiting infrastructure, including ATS, tooling, pipeline reporting, employer brand, and a candidate experience that reflects the mission's importance.
- Hire and lead recruiters as the Foundation scales, and manage people foundations like leveling, offer frameworks, and a consistent hiring bar.
- Act as a trusted advisor on organizational design, leveling, and compensation strategy.
Requirements
- 10+ years in talent acquisition, including leadership roles (Head of Recruiting, Director, Founding Recruiter) at a frontier AI lab, research organization, or a similarly high-bar environment.
- Proven experience scaling an organization rapidly by building recruiting functions and processes from scratch.
- Demonstrated success in personally hiring senior researchers, engineers, and operators, closing them against top company offers.
- Ability to engage in substantive conversations about AI and the mission to gain the trust of researchers, engineers, and senior operators.
- Persuasive closer who builds rapport and wins on substance, not pressure.
- Operates with discipline and care, even without extensive team support.
- Deeply mission-aligned and enthusiastic about ensuring AGI benefits all of humanity.
Skills
- Talent Acquisition
- Recruiting Leadership
- Full-Cycle Recruiting
- Sourcing
- Candidate Experience
- Offer Design
- Closing
- Talent Strategy
- Organizational Design
- Compensation Strategy
- AI
- Research
- Engineering
- Operations
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- In-office
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $258,000 to $355,000 USD
About the Company
- AI is transforming work, learning, and healthcare, with the potential for significant breakthroughs in medicine, science, education, creativity, productivity, and public services.
- The Foundation aims to enable AI to solve humanity's hardest problems and enhance human capabilities, while proactively addressing the challenges presented by advanced AI.
- The Foundation plans to invest at least $1 billion over the next year in life sciences, curing diseases, jobs and economic impact, AI resilience, and community programs, including contributions to a $25 billion commitment for disease cures and AI resilience.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.