Head of Talent

Single Grain•Los Angeles, CA

45d•$115,000 - $125,000

About The Position

Build the Hiring Operating System for an AI-Native Growth Company Single Grain is not a traditional agency. We're a digital growth company operating at the intersection of services, software, and AI. Our portfolio includes: Single Grain Agency Enterprise digital marketing services including: SEO Paid media Creative CRO AI-driven growth strategy Our clients include companies looking for serious, scalable growth, not basic marketing support. ClickFlow Our AI-powered content optimization platform. ClickFlow helps companies unlock hidden growth from their existing content by identifying high-impact SEO opportunities and improving rankings with AI insights. Karrot A LinkedIn advertising and landing page platform built specifically for B2B companies running demand generation programs. Karrot helps companies scale LinkedIn campaigns with better targeting and conversion infrastructure. We are actively evolving into a tech-enabled services (TES) company where software, automation, and services combine to create leverage. Our CEO Eric Siu hosts the Leveling Up podcast and co-hosts Marketing School with Neil Patel, reaching millions of marketers and founders every month. This brand ecosystem gives us reach most agencies don't have. But brand alone does not build a great company. Great hiring systems do. That’s where you come in. The Role: Talent Systems Architect This is not a traditional Head of Talent role. This is a systems design role focused on hiring quality, judgment, and enforcement discipline. You will build the frameworks that ensure every hire meets Single Grain’s performance standards. Your mandate is simple: Build a hiring operating system that consistently produces A-player hires.

Requirements

Designed structured hiring systems for companies with 50+ employees
Built scorecards, evaluation frameworks, and hiring playbooks
Reduced mis-hire rates through structured decision processes
Used AI to automate recruiting workflows
Enforced hiring discipline across leadership teams
Think in systems, not pipelines
Hire humans to do human work, not robot work
Have designed hiring frameworks or recruiting infrastructure
Have strong judgment evaluating A-players vs B-players
Use AI tools to drive real business results
Are comfortable enforcing standards across leadership teams
Prefer building infrastructure over managing large recruiting teams
Operate well in lean, high accountability environments

Responsibilities

Designing structured hiring processes
Implementing standardized evaluation frameworks
Building AI-powered hiring workflows
Creating retention monitoring systems
Enforcing hiring discipline across the organization
Design and implement a standardized hiring framework used across every role at Single Grain.
Documented hiring SOPs
Structured interview scorecards tied to outcomes and competencies
AI-assisted candidate screening workflows
Standardized hiring evaluation frameworks
Enforce non-negotiable hiring discipline
Ensuring every candidate follows the structured hiring process
Preventing off-process hiring decisions
Coaching hiring managers on structured evaluation
Maintaining consistent interview calibration across teams
Creating agents to do any of the following (and more): Resume screening automation
Candidate scoring systems
Scheduling automation
Hiring pipeline dashboards
Candidate evaluation tools
Data-driven hiring reporting
Build systems that monitor post-hire outcomes
30 / 60 / 90 day performance checkpoints
Early warning signals for mis-hires
Retention monitoring dashboards
Feedback loops that improve hiring decisions