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About the Role
We are seeking a Head of Talent to build and manage the talent acquisition and retention strategies for both Story and Wizard, our sister company. This role is crucial for scaling our creative and engineering teams and ensuring a seamless hiring and onboarding process for all new teammates.
Responsibilities
- Build and execute a unified hiring plan with leadership across Story and Wizard.
- Source and recruit creative and agency talent through various channels.
- Source and recruit senior software engineers for Wizard across multiple disciplines.
- Design and implement structured interview processes for all roles.
- Train hiring managers and interviewers on effective assessment techniques.
- Manage offers, employment agreements, and contractor agreements, ensuring compliance.
- Develop a compensation philosophy, including levels and pay bands, benchmarked to market rates.
- Collaborate with Finance on headcount budgets, equity programs, and pay transparency.
- Create onboarding programs to ensure new hires become productive within 30 days.
- Manage the Applicant Tracking System (ATS), HR tools, and recruiting metrics.
- Enhance the employer brand and candidate experience across job postings and careers pages.
Requirements
- Minimum of 7 years in recruiting or talent acquisition, including leadership experience at a startup.
- Proven full-cycle hiring experience for both creative and technical roles, including senior positions.
- Demonstrated success in hiring senior software engineers in competitive markets.
- Hands-on experience designing compensation bands and equity programs.
- Working knowledge of offer negotiation, employment contracts, and California employment law.
- Experience building onboarding programs from the ground up.
- Ability to manage hiring for multiple teams or entities concurrently.
- Must be able to work full-time, on-site in San Francisco.
Skills
- Creative talent sourcing
- Technical talent sourcing
- Interview loop design
- Hiring manager training
- Offer negotiation
- Compensation philosophy design
- Equity program design
- Onboarding program development
- ATS management
- HR tool management
- Recruiting metrics reporting
- Employer branding
- Candidate experience management
- Film/video production hiring
- Design hiring
- Creative agency hiring
- Desktop software engineering hiring
- Video software engineering hiring
- Graphics software engineering hiring
- AI software engineering hiring
- Freelance crew management
- Production contractor management
- Deep-tech company hiring
- Science company hiring
- Founder-led company hiring
- Creative assessment
- Technical fluency
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-time
- On-site
Experience Level
- 7+ years
- Lead talent at a startup
About the Company
- We are building the future of storytelling and creative tools.
- Story brings together exceptional creative talent to tell the stories of people shaping the future.
- Wizard is our sister company building the next generation of professional editing software.