The ad says“Experience leading executive and senior leadership searches”
The ad says“Comfort using data to evaluate recruiting performance and guide decisions”
The ad says“Experience building or improving recruiting systems in a high-growth company”
The ad says“Experience leading executive and senior leadership searches”
The ad says“5+ years experience leading a talent acquisition function and managing/growing a team of recruiters”
The ad says“5+ years experience leading a talent acquisition function and managing/growing a team of recruiters”
At Exa, we’re building a next-gen embeddings based search engine for AI. We’re a ~60-person team from places like Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Apple, and Palantir, backed by Benchmark, Lightspeed, and NVIDIA, and we’re scaling fast
We’re looking for a Head of Talent to own and build Exa’s entire hiring engine
You’ll work directly with our founders and CoS to build our early organization structure, out-compete companies like Anthropic and OpenAI for top research talent, and build our our people organization
The Head of Talent at Exa is both a strategic leader and a practical operator
This role sits at the center of Exa’s growth. The people you hire will define the company (and the future of search!)
Set Exa’s hiring roadmap with founders and CoS, and define what “great” looks like across teams
Personally source, assess, and close high-impact hires, including senior engineers, GTM leaders, and early execs
Run the most critical searches end-to-end when the stakes are high
Design interview loops, scorecards, and hiring bar
Build scalable recruiting workflows and infrastructure using Exa’s internal AI tools
Hire, manage, and develop GTM and Technical Recruiters
Build a culture of speed, ownership, and high bar across the recruiting team
Shape how Exa is experienced by candidates and build a reputation that attracts elite talent
Webscale infrastructure is not getting automated anytime soon. We are building complex systems, and solving technically difficult problems. We need the best humans to do this, all while building a culture of technical optimism, original thinking, and joy
Preferred experience
Comfort using data to evaluate recruiting performance and guide decisions
Ability to balance long-term planning with hands-on execution for a global workforce
Proven ability to operate as both strategist and closer
Experience leading executive and senior leadership searches
Experience building or improving recruiting systems in a high-growth company
A strong record of hiring highly technical talent in areas such as infrastructure, research, web crawling, retrieval. You can comfortably talk to engineers and understand what makes them great
5+ years experience leading a talent acquisition function and managing/growing a team of recruiters
