Head of Talent

• Hybrid
• San Francisco, California, United States
• People

Job description

SnapMagic is building the digital growth engine for the global $1.3 trillion electronics industry. Electronics is one of the largest and most important industries in the world, but the tools engineers use to discover, evaluate, and design with components are still surprisingly outdated. SnapMagic is changing that. SnapMagic is the AI platform for electronics design, the industry behind every phone, plane, and satellite. We reach 2M+ engineers a year at NASA, SpaceX, Anduril, and most of the world's most ambitious hardware teams. We’ve pioneered software in two highly conservative industries: electronic design and component manufacturing/distribution. SnapMagic is profitable, backed by excellent investors, and built with unusual capital efficiency. We have millions in revenue, millions of users, and years of runway after our planned growth investments. The next 10 hires will define our culture, speed, judgment, and trajectory. We’re hiring a Founding Talent Partner to help us find them, win them, and build the recruiting system that turns SnapMagic into a generational company.

The role

We’re hiring a Founding Talent Partner to help us hire the 10 people who will define SnapMagic. Once the first 10 are in, you'll scope and lead the team that hires the next 30. The talent function will be yours to build. This includes leaders and ICs across sales, engineering, operations, customer success, and GTM. This is not a recruiting coordinator role. Your job is to help us find and close the people who change the company. Most of them will not apply. You will need to find them, understand what motivates them, sell the mission, and run a process that is fast, rigorous, and human. Your job is to help us win the best people, not the easiest people. Some will be well-known top performers. Some will be undiscovered. Most will not be actively looking. This role requires the judgment of an assessor, the persistence of a builder, and the storytelling ability of a great salesperson. You will map the market, build target lists, create paths to exceptional candidates, sell the mission,and run a high-touch process from first outreach through close. You will work directly with the CEO to define what great looks like,builthe hiring process,and raise talent density of company. Your judgmentand tastewill go long way toward shaping what this company becomes.

What you’ll do

• Own full recruiting loop from market mapping to close
• Build target lists for our most important leadershipand IC roles across sales engineering operations customer success GTM
• Create sourcing strategies that reach both proven top performersand exceptional people earlier in their trajectory
• Run candidate experience that feels fast thoughtful clear white-glove
• Partner CEO hiring managers define scorecards calibrate candidates make crisp hiring decisions
• Screen assess reference sell close candidates rigor care
• Help identify people with high agency low ego sharp judgment strong ownership genuine excitement helping engineers design faster
• Build recruiting system scorecards outreach tracking follow-up calibration references closing onboarding handoff
• Protect bar even when roles urgent

What success looks like

• Within6 months:
• You helped close3to5 exceptional full-time hires across highest-priority roles
• Strong active pipelines for remaining roles next10 hires
• Those hires thriving performing excited here
• Candidates describe process thoughtful fast sharp premium
• Hiring managers trust your judgment
• Hiring managers feel supported prepared confident without being buried process
• SnapMagic has clear repeatable recruiting process strong scorecards tight calibration excellent follow-through

Company materially stronger because people you helped bring.

You may be fit if you

• Helped build early team venture-backed startup ideally first5to30 employees
• Recruited company real product-market pull ideally marketplace platform AI SaaS network-effect technical business
• Hired both hands-on leaders exceptional ICs
• Know identify pursue close people not actively looking
• Excellent taste talent explain why someone fit
• Strong sourcing selling
• Care deeply about candidate experience follow-through
• Create structure without making process bureaucratic
• Warm candidates rigorous assessment persistent without pushy
• Believe recruiting one highest-leverage ways build company

The bar

Not trying hire “good enough.” Building first core team people set SnapMagic’s culture speed judgment operating standard. Want people exceptional what do love work raise bar everyone around. Mission simple hard: help find win bring.

Why SnapMagic

SnapMagic inflection point. Reach2M+ engineers every year one largest least modernized technical markets world electronics. Real revenue real usage proprietary data10M+ components. Now building AI platform how engineers discover evaluate design components. Next phase depends people next10 hires shape company. you work directly CEO find assess close you not inherit recruiting machine you build it. rara chance build talent function early company real pull massive market ambition become generational.