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About the Role
Hellyeah is seeking an individual to own the company's talent acquisition strategy, focusing on finding and securing top talent. This technical role involves managing and developing AI agents to assist in the recruitment process, working closely with founders and reporting to the CTO. The position requires a proactive approach to identifying and engaging potential candidates, with a strong emphasis on strategic market mapping and candidate relationship management.
Responsibilities
- Scope the search by agreeing on a ranked list of skills and experience with the hiring manager.
- Push back on vague, mis-leveled, or unviable roles.
- Split the work between self-managed searches, agencies, and contractors.
- Map the market by identifying potential candidates and leveraging networks.
- Win candidates by building personalized processes and managing the offer stage.
- Look after candidates not hired to maintain positive relationships.
- Own the hiring agents by setting rules, debugging, and driving improvements.
- Run the system by ensuring honest evaluation, making hiring visible, and improving the company's appeal.
- Scope the top five open roles with hiring managers and rewrite or close them within the first 90 days.
- Build a named map for the top three searches, including leveraging teammates' networks.
- Get a sourcing agent to surface desired candidates.
- Close one hire through a self-designed process.
- Take over hiring agents, set priorities, and implement fixes.
- Record the source for each new hire and publish a weekly view of each search.
Requirements
- A record of personal hires, primarily senior individuals in engineering, research, or AI.
- Proven ability to close senior candidates who were not actively looking and had better options.
- Experience mapping markets by hand and converting lists of names into hires.
- Experience scoping roles with hiring managers and influencing hiring criteria.
- Experience implementing recruiting automation, either independently or with engineers.
- Ability to finish tasks without constant supervision.
- A strong network in San Francisco or Shanghai, with a plan to reach the other market.
- Technical depth, including reading code and logs, debugging with engineers, and engaging in technical conversations.
- Ability to create specifications for engineers or coding agents and test their output.
- Curiosity about the business and how hires impact growth.
- Understanding of offer craft, including equity, competing offers, and market expectations.
- Daily use of coding agents and clear opinions on their ethical boundaries with candidates.
- Confidence to refuse a founder's request with a valid explanation.
- Experience managing multiple live searches simultaneously while maintaining candidate care.
- Proficiency in written English for daily work.
- Working Chinese proficiency for the Shanghai seat.
Skills
- Talent Acquisition
- Recruiting
- AI Agent Management
- Market Mapping
- Candidate Sourcing
- Candidate Closing
- Technical Recruiting
- Executive Search
- Recruiting Automation
- Stakeholder Management
- Communication
- Problem-Solving
- Negotiation
- Offer Craft
- Technical Depth
- Coding Agent Usage
- Written English
- Working Chinese
Location
- San Francisco
- Shanghai
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Hellyeah is the agentic operating system for distribution, using AI agents to plan, execute, and optimize growth work.
- The company has a small team running several live products, incorporating coding agents into their development process.