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Head of Talent

HUD· Operations
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San Francisco$140k - $210kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Head of Talent responsible for end-to-end recruiting for technical and GTM roles, building recruiting operations, and partnering with founders to scale the team in alignment with HUD's marketplace-driven growth.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end recruiting across technical and GTM roles
  • Build and optimize recruiting ops and tooling, automating workflows whenever possible
  • Partner closely with founders and team leads to define role requirements, evaluation criteria, and interview processes
  • Develop a strong understanding of our product to effectively pitch technical candidates
  • Source top candidates through high-signal and unconventional channels
  • Screen candidates for both technical competence and product/market intuition
  • Support onboarding and new hire ramp
  • Help define and run performance review processes, leveling, and feedback systems

Qualifications

  • Have experience hiring engineering, product, and GTM roles
  • Are comfortable evaluating candidates via portfolios and projects, not just resumes
  • Can understand and communicate technical concepts well enough to engage credibly with candidates
  • Are highly organized and can manage multiple roles and pipelines simultaneously
  • Have strong instincts for talent quality and bar-setting
  • Early-stage startup experience with ability to work independently in fast-paced environments

Skills

Required:Recruiting for technical rolesInterview design and processSourcing and candidate assessmentOnboarding and rampPerformance and leveling

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision (US and Singapore employees)
  • Lunch and dinner for in-office employees
  • Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays
  • 401k with a 4% match
  • Other perks including an Equinox membership and commuter benefits (US employees) and a health/wellness stipend (Singapore employees)
  • Unlimited access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.
  • Two top-floor offices in San Francisco’s Union Square and Singapore’s Raffles Place
  • Annual travel budget to visit either office
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About HUD

The platform for building RL environments

The platform for building RL environments. Train specialized agents, evaluate models, and deliver frontier‑grade post‑training data to labs.

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