Talent Lead
Hybrid (Palo Alto)Full-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Own how Sycamore hires: the bar, the process, and the experience of every candidate who goes through it.
Responsibilities
- Own recruiting end to end for engineering, commercial, and operations roles across both locations.
- Build and run outbound sourcing for roles where the strongest candidates are not applying.
- Partner with founders and engineering leaders on hiring plans, role definition, leveling, and compensation.
- Own the candidate experience, including for candidates we do not hire.
- Close candidates honestly, including being clear about what is hard about working here.
- Protect the hiring bar as the company grows, and raise it where it should be higher.
- Contribute to how Sycamore presents itself to candidates, including how we describe our roles and our work.
Qualifications
- 6-12 years of recruiting experience, including in-house ownership of technical hiring at a high-growth company.
- A track record of hiring strong engineers through outbound work, not primarily through inbound volume or agencies.
- The technical literacy to have a substantive conversation with an engineer about what they have built, and to assess a résumé beyond keyword matching.
- Evidence that you have raised or held a hiring bar under pressure to fill roles quickly.
- Experience designing interview processes and calibrating interviewers, rather than inheriting a loop and running it.
- Excellent written communication. Your outreach should be worth replying to.
- High integrity with candidates. You represent the company honestly, including its difficulties.
- AI-native. You use modern AI systems to expand your sourcing and research throughput, while keeping the human judgment and the candidate experience yours.
- Comfort with startup ambiguity, broad ownership, and building a function rather than joining one.
Skills
Required:Recruiting end-to-end managementOutbound sourcingHiring strategy & compensation alignmentCandidate experience ownershipInterview design & calibrationCommunicationIntegrity & candor with candidatesAI-native sourcingStartup adaptability
Benefits
- Competitive cash compensation and meaningful equity in the company you are helping build.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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