Head of Talent Acquisition

Head of Talent Acquisition

Location:

New York, NY, onsite 5 days per week

Role type:
Full time

Reports to:

President

Flowcode builds the infrastructure that turns real world touchpoints into measurable, actionable first party IDs, enabling F500 brands to personalize consumer experiences at scale.

One of Flowcode’s founding principles is “the product is the team, and the team is the product.” We treat hiring with the same level of rigor we apply to product development. We have an extremely high hiring bar (the “pinhole process”), which to date we have applied by brute force. Our CEO, President and our executive team each personally read resumes, sit on interview loops, and close candidates.

It works. But it also means our hiring speed is capped by the calendars of the ten busiest people in the company, and our pipeline stops the moment one promising candidate appears.

We are not hiring a coordinator, a req-filler, or a "people partner who also does recruiting." We are hiring the person who owns the talent bar, the pipeline and the close. You are relentless in your proactive pursuit of top 1% talent, and you never consider the pipeline “good enough”. You treat every day as an opportunity to source the next generation of leaders for Flowcode, and you are consistently refining differentiated strategies to attract and retain elite talent.

• The talent bar:
  You define, in writing, what "top 1%" means for each function at Flowcode, with calibrated scorecards and interview questions — and you hold the line when a hiring manager, or anyone else at the company, including the executive team, wants an exception.
• An always-on pipeline:
  You do not just open requisitions when a seat empties. You have named, warm, mapped talent for our most critical roles at all times, including seats that are currently filled.
• Outbound and referral as the default:
  Job boards produce volume; direct sourcing and referrals produce our best people. You flip the mix and you own the referral engine.
• Velocity:
  You compress the distance between "we met someone exceptional" and "they signed" from weeks to days.
• Data enablement:
  You own every metric and SLA in the recruiting funnel, including time to hire, time to fill and offer acceptance rate.
• The close:
  You personally run the final mile on every senior hire: comp framing, competing offers, partner and relocation objections, start dates.
• Onboarding through to productivity. Your scoreboard does not stop  work cross functionally to ensure effective onboarding and a fast ramp to productivity.
• Agency strategy and spend:
  You minimize agency spend where possible, run the search-firm bench, and you drive blended cost per hire down.
• A defensible process:
  Pay ranges in every posting, structured and consistent interviews, clean records in Greenhouse, and hiring decisions we can stand behind.

Must have:

• • 7+ years in talent, including at least two years leading talent acquisition at a company between 50 and 500 people. You have recruited into both go-to-market and engineering.
  • You have personally closed senior hires that other good companies also wanted. Not "managed a process" — personally closed.
  • You run your funnel like a revenue pipeline — stage conversion, coverage ratios, source yield, cost per hire — and you can defend those numbers to an executive team that will read every one of them.
  • You are AI-native in practice, not in vocabulary. You have built sourcing, screening or research workflows with AI tooling, and you can show us what they produced.
  • You write and communicate clearly and effectively.
  • You will be in our New York office. This is an in-person job at an in-person company.

Strong fit signals:

• • You have competed against Google, Meta, OpenAI or a…