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Head of Talent

hud· Operations
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$140k - $210kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

HUD is hiring a Head of Talent to hire engineers and GTM leaders for rapid growth, with a focus on scaling without proportional headcount as the company aims to reach 30-40 people in an end state.

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
  • - Strong candidates may also have: a track record of sourcing creatively, Familiarity with Ashby, Juicebox, and Clay, Experience with vibe coding and using AI to automate workflows, Exposure to or ownership of people/HR functions, Experience evaluating non-traditional candidate profiles

Skills

Required:Engineering recruitingProduct recruitingGTM recruitingInterview design

Benefits

  • - Competitive compensation
  • - 100% covered medical, dental, and vision (US and Singapore)
  • - Lunch and dinner for in-office employees
  • - Company-wide holiday break Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day in addition to PTO and holidays
  • - Other perks including Equinox membership, 401k, commuter benefits (US) and health/wellness stipend (Singapore)
  • - Unlimited access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.
  • - Two top-floor offices in San Francisco and Singapore
  • - Annual travel budget to visit either office
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About hud

Platform for building RL environments and evals

HUD (YC W25) is developing agentic evals and RL environments for Computer Use Agents (CUAs) that browse the web for frontier AI labs. Our CUA Evals framework is the first comprehensive evaluation tool for CUAs. People don't actually know if AI agents are working reliably. To make AI agents work in the real world, we need detailed evals for a huge range of tasks. We're backed by Y Combinator, and work closely with frontier AI labs to provide agent evaluation and training infrastructure at scale.

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