Head of Talent

We offer opportunities to do your life's work while helping solve one of the most important technical and moral challenges of our time.

• Own full-cycle recruiting for every open role, across formulation and computational chemistry, behavioral assay science, machine learning and computer vision, lab network operations, and global health and regulatory: scoping, sourcing, interviewing, offer design and close.
• Turn ambiguous mandates from the founder and technical leads into crisp role definitions, calibrated bars and structured interview loops, with scorecards, debriefs and calibration you run yourself.
• Build top of funnel from scratch: talent maps and warm pipelines across entomology, chemistry, machine learning and vector-control research, and the labs, companies and funders where that talent works.
• Run the searches that never move through a standard process: senior researchers and operators who are not looking, where timing, discretion, market intelligence and a tailored approach matter more than process.
• Close exceptional people who have other excellent options, on substance and relationship rather than pressure, by being fluent in the work and honest about the trade-offs.
• Stand up the recruiting infrastructure the company needs: applicant tracking, pipeline reporting, employer presence and a candidate experience that reflects the seriousness of the work.
• Own the people foundations that come with hiring: leveling, offer frameworks and a consistent bar across science, engineering and operations. Hire and lead recruiters if and when the team needs them.

• Ten or more years in talent, including leading recruiting as a head of recruiting, director or founding recruiter at a research organization, frontier technology company or another environment with a famously high bar.
• Took an organization through rapid early scaling: joined when the team was small, built the recruiting function and its processes from scratch, and are energized rather than unsettled by doing it again.
• Personally hired senior scientists, engineers and operators, closing against offers from the best companies in the world.
• Track record of building relationships with hard-to-reach candidates who are not actively looking or who need a highly personalized process.
• Can hold your own in a substantive conversation about insect behavior, chemistry, machine learning and malaria vector control, enough to earn the trust of researchers and engineers.
• Operate with discipline, discretion and care without needing a large team around you.

• Experience spanning recruiting and people operations, including leveling, compensation design and onboarding, so the hiring system and the employee experience grow together.
• Time in mission-driven organizations, and a record of hiring for first-of-their-kind roles.
• Experience advising founders on talent strategy, org design and compensation.
• Deep interest in the science, and in the people and institutions shaping vector control and crop protection.