Head of Talent, Pathos
Overview
Lead everything talent at The Path as we scale from ~15 to 50 people in the next year. You are a hands-on high-velocity recruiter who personally closes candidates across every function — AI researchers, government and enterprise sales, marketing, chief of staff, and everything in between — while building the process, tooling, and external recruiter network that makes hiring a company strength instead of a founder bottleneck.
What You'll Do11
- 1Drive candidates from sourcing through signed offer at a sustained pace of at least 2–3 hires per month
- 2Own the full talent lifecycle: partner with hiring managers to define scorecards, conduct heavy hands-on sourcing, run first-round interviews, shepherd candidates through the process, and personally close
- 3Manage all external recruiters: hire, direct, measure, and fire sourcers, hourly recruiters, and contingency firms
- 4Establish internal systems such as ATS, scheduling, pipeline tracking, and interview processes to make recruiting fast measurable and scalable
- 5Build a flawless candidate experience: ensure elite interactions, no double-bookings, no broken video calls, every interview recorded and reviewable, fast follow-ups, and warm high-touch shepherding
- 6Create a robust recruiting process and tooling framework
- 7Act as an Elite Closer: persuasive high-energy recruiter who secures top talent
- 8Demonstrate rare dual range: recruitment of both deep technical roles and go-to-market/business roles
- 9Show player-coach potential: senior IC who executes first with strategic vision
- 10Upgrade company processes: implement topgrading, scorecards, pipeline metrics, and tooling decisions
- 11Maintain high integrity and transparency: honest pipeline reports, hours, and assessments
Requirements7
- 15+ years building ETL pipelines with Spark and Airflow
- 23-5 seasons leading teams through rapid growth phases
- 3Experience recruiting in AI/ML specifically
- 4Partially based in San Francisco, hybrid (Tue–Thu in office)
- 5Payroll full-time employee only
- 6Scaling an early-stage startup through a 2–3x headcount phase
- 7Network of proven external recruiters and sourcers ready to activate
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