# Head of Talent - Company: [Pathos]() - Location: San Francisco - Remote: Yes - Team: Ops - Employment type: Full Time - Posted: August 6, 2026 ## Job description ### **Mission** Own 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. ### **Outcomes** * **Close 2–3 hires per month, minimum:** Personally drive candidates from sourcing through signed offer at a sustained pace of at least 2–3 closes per month across technical and non-technical roles. * **Own the full talent lifecycle:** Partner with hiring managers to define scorecards, do heavy hands-on sourcing, run first-round candidate interviews, shepherd candidates through the process, and personally close — you own it end to end. * **Own and manage all external recruiters:** Hire, direct, measure, and fire our sourcers, hourly recruiters, and contingency firms. Hold them to real accountability on hours, pipeline quality, and results. * **Deliver a flawless candidate experience:** Every candidate interaction reflects an elite company — no double-bookings, no broken video calls, every interview recorded and reviewable, fast follow-ups, warm high-touch shepherding from first contact to signed offer. * **Build our recruiting process and tooling:** Establish the internal systems — ATS, scheduling, pipeline tracking, interview processes — that make recruiting fast, measurable, and scalable. ### **Competencies** * **Elite Closer:** You are a persuasive, high-energy, aggressive recruiter who gets great people over the line — you understand what candidates want, you shepherd them skillfully, and you close. * **Rare Dual Range — Technical** ***and*** **GTM:** You have successfully recruited both deeply technical roles (AI researchers, ML engineers, senior software engineers) and go-to-market/business roles (sales leaders, marketers, chiefs of staff). This combination is a hard requirement, not a nice-to-have, and we will wait for it. * **Player-Coach Potential:** You are a senior IC who executes first. A "Head of Talent" title and eventual team are available if you have the strategic chops, but you are hired to personally recruit. * **Process Builder:** You bring structure — topgrading and scorecards (à la [*Who*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345504194?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback)), pipeline metrics, tooling decisions — and you raise the bar on how the whole company hires and interviews. * **High Integrity & Transparency:** Your pipeline reports, hours, and candidate assessments are always honest and verifiable. You build trust with founders through radical transparency. * **Relentless Operator:** You move fast, juggle many searches simultaneously, and never let a candidate or a search go cold. ### **Great to have** * **Experience scaling an early-stage startup** through a 2–3x headcount phase. * **Experience recruiting in AI/ML** specifically, given how competitive that market is. * **A network of proven external recruiters and sourcers** you can activate immediately. ### **Logistics** * San Francisco, hybrid (Tue–Thu in office). Not remote. Full-time employee only (not contract). * Reports to the Founders ## Apply [Apply on Pathos]() Canonical job page: