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About the Role
K1 is hiring a Head of Recruiting to build its recruiting function from the ground up. This role involves building systems, developing a team, managing recruiting firms, and personally closing difficult technical searches. The Head of Recruiting will partner with the founding team, hiring managers, and external firms to drive hiring strategy and execution, ensuring business priorities translate into successful hires while staying connected to the operational work in Nevada.
Responsibilities
- Translate engineering, production, and commercial milestones into a prioritized hiring plan.
- Personally source, assess, and close critical technical, operational, and leadership hires.
- Build a recruiting team as demand grows.
- Learn what our teams build and the requirements for each role.
- Partner with hiring managers on role calibration, structured interviews, practical assessments, and decision criteria.
- Own external search relationships, including firm selection, search briefs, fee negotiations, candidate ownership, and performance reviews.
- Hold recruiting partners accountable for quality, speed, and cost.
- Decide which searches belong in-house.
- Build the applicant tracking system, sourcing workflows, and reporting.
- Track pipeline quality, conversion, time to fill, offer acceptance, and recruiting spend.
- Use data and automation tools to identify bottlenecks and improve execution.
- Build a clear story about K1 and the opportunity in Nevada.
- Develop targeted talent networks and referrals.
- Keep candidates informed.
- Partner with leadership on competitive offers and relocation conversations.
- Hire and develop internal recruiters as needed.
- Coach hiring managers.
- Establish clear ownership and timely feedback.
- Balance direct sourcing and agency support to ensure hiring remains fast, rigorous, and efficient.
Requirements
- Has personally built a recruiting function from zero to one, with concrete examples of the initial hires, systems, team, and results.
- Has worked in-house at a hardware or energy company and recruited specialized engineers and people who build, manufacture, or deploy physical systems.
- Can get technical: understands unfamiliar disciplines quickly, asks informed questions, and distinguishes relevant experience beyond titles and keywords.
- Has managed recruiting firms and executive search partners, including contracts, fees, search quality, and delivery.
- Remains a hands-on recruiter with a strong record of direct sourcing, candidate assessment, offer negotiation, and closing hard-to-fill roles.
- Uses recruiting data and modern tools confidently.
- Can build practical processes and develop a team in a fast-moving startup.
- Is willing to relocate to Nevada or commit to substantial, regular time onsite with K1's team.
- Experience hiring through the transition from prototype to production is a plus.
- Experience recruiting for AI infrastructure or data center power systems is a plus.
- Experience convincing candidates to relocate is a plus.
Skills
- Systems building
- Team development
- Recruiting firm management
- Technical recruiting
- Operational recruiting
- Leadership recruiting
- Role calibration
- Structured interviews
- Practical assessments
- Decision criteria development
- External search relationship management
- Applicant tracking system implementation
- Sourcing workflow development
- Recruiting data analysis
- Automation tools utilization
- Candidate experience management
- Talent network development
- Referral program development
- Offer negotiation
- Relocation conversation management
- Hiring manager coaching
- Direct sourcing
- Agency support management
Location
- Carson City, Nevada
- Near Reno, Nevada
- Near Lake Tahoe
- San Francisco, California (relocation preferred)
- Remote (with substantial onsite time required)
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite (preferred)
- Hybrid (for remote candidates)
Experience Level
- Head of Recruiting
- Building recruiting functions from zero to one
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
- Meaningful early-stage equity
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
About the Company
- K1 builds and deploys modular power packages at scale to meet increasing power demand.
- Power demand growth in the US has jumped 5x, driving multi-year lead times for critical power infrastructure.
- K1 hires for its values: run toward hard problems, own your work, learn obsessively, and bias to action.