Head of Talent

Hyperbolic Labs • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

Hyperbolic Labs is seeking a hands-on Head of Talent to refine the systems and processes behind our next stage of growth from ~30 to ~70-100 employees in the next 6-12 months. This role will shape what Hyperbolic looks like and where our future holds. Working directly with our founders and leadership team, you will define hiring priorities, personally lead critical searches, and build a rigorous, scalable recruiting engine. This is a player-coach role for someone who can attract exceptional technical and business talent while creating the systems that help us hire with speed and quality.

Requirements

• 10+ years of recruiting experience, including ownership of a recruiting function in a high-growth company.
• Successfully hired technical talent across infrastructure, distributed systems, AI/ML, cloud, or developer tools.
• Hands-on recruiter who enjoys sourcing and closing, not only managing.
• Built or meaningfully improved recruiting processes, systems, and metrics.
• Can understand complex technology and engage credibly with senior technical candidates.
• Uses data and market intelligence to improve hiring decisions.
• Exercises strong judgment and can challenge leaders constructively.
• Thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments and takes ownership from strategy through execution.

Nice To Haves

• Experience at a neocloud, hyperscaler, AI lab, GPU cloud, or infrastructure company.
• Experience as the first or early Talent hire at a venture-backed startup.
• A strong network across AI and infrastructure talent.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting across all departments.
• Translate company goals, mission and culture into clear hiring priorities, candidate profiles, and search strategies.
• Personally source, assess, and close top talent.
• Build the talent roadmap to help Hyperbolic scale and help balance hiring priorities across different functions.
• Design end-to-end talent engine with structured interviews, scorecards, and decision frameworks.
• Serve as a trusted partner to the founders and hiring managers on candidate strategy, leveling, and offer construction.
• Stand up the tooling, data, and pipeline visibility we need to run 60+ hires per year without dropping quality.
• Manage the recruiting team, recruiting resources and hiring partners efficiently.
• Build Hyperbolic’s employer brand and make Hyperbolic an exciting place to work at.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed