Head of Talent Acquisition
Shaper
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: North Carolina • United States
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About the role
- Establish and lead a world-class recruiting function that attracts top talent across the portfolio.
- Build the engine that helps Shaper's companies find founding and executive talent fast and reliably.
- Own the full founding hire playbook in support of our CEOs at launch while scaling a platform for executive, generalist, and technical talent.
- Manage the entire recruiting lifecycle for our CEOs, including sourcing, managing external recruiters, interviewing, process design, and running end-to-end hiring processes.
- Ensure we build a network of the brightest and best talent—people who are smart, nice, and get things done.
- Scale hiring for the unique Builder in Residence Program and manage external recruiters, sourcers, agencies, and technical resources for our portfolio companies.
- Enhance and promote Shaper’s brand, making us a talent magnet for top performers in the data and tech industries.
- Create a library of JD templates, outreach cadences, interview loops, reference/back-channel processes, offer kits and comp benchmarking, and maintain KPIs.
Requirements
- Experience sourcing and recruiting for roles at early stage technology companies is a requirement.
- Ideally you have experience recruiting both business and technical roles, and demonstrated success placing founding engineers and executives.
- Proven track record in building and leading recruiting functions, particularly within fast-paced, high-growth environments.
- Deep understanding of technical and business roles in data-driven industries.
- Exceptional sourcing and networking abilities, with a knack for identifying top talent that fits both the role and company culture.
- Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
- Excellent stakeholder management - comfortable coaching CEOs to interview and close.
- Entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for building from scratch.
- Alignment with our motto of hiring people who are smart, nice, and get things done.
Benefits
- A unique opportunity to build and shape the recruiting function within the cutting-edge Shaper environment;
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- The chance to work with some of the brightest minds in the industry and make a tangible impact on the companies we build.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
sourcingrecruitinginterviewingprocess designproject managementKPI maintenanceJD template creationoffer kit developmentcomp benchmarking
Soft skills
organizational skillsstakeholder managementnetworking abilitiescoachingentrepreneurial spiritcultural fit assessmentleadershipcommunicationadaptability