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Head of Talent

Monarch· R&D/ops
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Emeryville, CaliforniaFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Be our founding Head of Talent. Own every open search end to end, build the hiring function the company grows on, and lead recruiting across science, engineering and operations in Emeryville, CA.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Full-cycle recruitingInterview design and calibrationTalent pipeline development
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Monarch

Monarch is developing a scalable, precision-based approach to protect crops from insects.

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