Head of Recruiting
Nectar Group
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Palo Alto • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $180,000 - $210,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own the full recruiting lifecycle across engineering, product, design, GTM, and operations, from headcount planning through offer close.
- Personally source, engage, and close senior and leadership level hires while building a recruiting team to handle growing volume.
- Partner with the founders and hiring managers to translate business priorities into a hiring roadmap, ensuring the right roles are filled in the right sequence.
- Design and implement scalable recruiting infrastructure: structured interview loops, scorecards, pipeline analytics, and a candidate experience that reflects our brand.
- Build and lead a high performing recruiting team, hiring recruiters and coordinators as volume scales.
- Develop Nectar Social’s employer brand and talent positioning, making us a destination for top builders in AI, social commerce, and SaaS.
- Use data to drive decisions: track pipeline velocity, conversion rates, source effectiveness, and time-to-fill to continuously improve performance.
- Manage relationships with external recruiting partners and agencies where needed, while building toward a predominantly in-house function.
Requirements
- 8–12+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with at least 3+ years in a leadership or management role.
- Direct experience scaling a company through a high-growth phase (e.g., 30–50 to 100+ employees), ideally at a Series A or Series B startup.
- Proven ability to personally close exceptional candidates across both technical and non-technical roles.
- Track record of building recruiting processes and teams from the ground up, balancing speed, rigor, and candidate quality.
- Sharp strategic judgment: you know how to build a hiring plan, manage competing priorities, and advise founders on talent decisions.
- Strong instincts for culture add, role fit, and long-term potential, with a high talent bar you won’t compromise.
- Fluency with modern recruiting tools (ATS platforms, sourcing tools, analytics) and a data-driven approach to optimizing the funnel.
- Energized by in-person collaboration with the team in Palo Alto.
- Startup DNA: resourceful, adaptable, low ego, and comfortable operating in ambiguity.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and early equity
- Health, vision, and dental benefits + 401(k) match
- Clear career growth opportunities as the company scales
- Free lunch in the heart of University Ave. in Palo Alto
- Deep exposure to cutting-edge AI tooling and the opportunity to shape how brands use it
- A collaborative, ambitious team defining a new category of AI-native marketing infrastructure
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
full-cycle recruitingleadership recruitingcandidate sourcinginterview designpipeline analyticsemployer brandingdata-driven decision makingrecruiting process developmenthigh-growth scalingtalent acquisition
Soft Skills
strategic judgmentcollaborationadaptabilityresourcefulnesscultural fit assessmentprioritizationteam leadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingrelationship management