Location: Remote (with occasional travel as needed)
Company Overview: At Shaper, we’re on a mission to build groundbreaking data companies that shape the world. By joining Shaper today, you’ll be joining a small team of people who believe the world’s greatest problems have yet to be solved, the greatest companies have yet to be built, and that Shapers can help build them. Shaper was founded in 2023 and we’ve launched seven portfolio companies over the past two years, creating companies that solve data fragmentation issues across industries. By joining our team, you'll be part of a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment where innovation thrives, and impact is the norm. We believe in empowering our portfolio companies to create businesses that shape industries and improve the world. Our portfolio companies include Arbital Health, BEAMRail, Catena Clearing, Fractional AI, Protege, Zenith Health and Adelphi Data.
Our mantra is simple: we look for people who are smart, nice, and get things done. We hire individuals who thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and are passionate about building high-impact companies. We invest in our people and believe in hiring high-potential and humble individuals who can rapidly grow their responsibilities as we reimagine company creation. You need to be scrappy and willing to role up your sleeves from day one.
Role Overview: We are seeking a dynamic, high-performing Head of Talent Acquisition to establish and lead a world-class recruiting function that attracts top talent across our entire portfolio. Reporting into our COO, you’ll build the engine that helps Shaper's companies find founding and executive talent fast and reliably, and make Shaper the place that every builder wants to join. This is a high-agency, high-impact work - owning the full founding hire playbook in support of our CEOs at launch while scaling a platform for executive, generalist, and technical talent across the portfolio.
For founding teams, you will be responsible for the entire recruiting lifecycle for our CEOs, including sourcing, managing external recruiters, interviewing, process design, and running end-to-end hiring processes across diverse roles and industries; this will include both technical and business roles. Your efforts will ensure we build a network of the brightest and best talent—people who are smart, nice, and get things done.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own Founding Hire Sprint: when Shaper launches a new company, you'll fully own talent acquisition for the first ten roles. You'll develop role specs, own sourcing, scorecards, offer, and close playbook.
- Create a Robust Pipeline for Executive + High-Agency Generalist Roles: As our companies grow past seed stage, you'll partner with them by sourcing and cultivating a strong network of executive and generalist talent - you'll build first-pass slates, curate shortlist, and match game-changers who thrive in ambiguity to the roles that energize them.
- Scale our unique Builder in Residence Program: Shaper differentiates itself through its bench of incredible generalist builders who can parachute in and support our portfolio companies with an outsize impact. You'll scale hiring for this program.
- External Recruiter Management: You'll also build, curate and manage a bench of preferred recruiters, sourcers, agencies, and technical resources for our portfolio companies.
- Employer Branding: Work closely with leadership to enhance and promote Shaper’s brand, making us a talent magnet for top performers in the data and tech industries.
- Standardize hiring playbooks and maintain KPIs: You'll create a library of JD templates, outreach cadences, interview loops, reference/back-channel processes, offer kits and comp benchmarking, and maintain KPIs that you report on weekly across work-streams.
Key Qualifications:
- Experience: Experience sourcing and recruiting for roles at early stage technology companies is a requirement. Ideally you have experience recruiting both business and technical roles, and demonstrated success placing founding engineers and executives.
- Expertise. Proven track record in building and leading recruiting functions, particularly within fast-paced, high-growth environments. Deep understanding of technical and business roles in data-driven industries. Expert at sourcing and happy to spend significant time sourcing.
- Skills: Exceptional sourcing and networking abilities, with a knack for identifying top talent that fits both the role and company culture. Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities. excellent stakeholder management - comfortable coaching CEOs to interview and close.
- Entrepreneurial Mindset: Entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for building from scratch. Thrives in a fast-paced, scrappy environment. Comfortable with ambiguity, change and iteration. Able to operate effectively with limited direction. You’re willing to roll up your sleeves and get things done. High integrity and a strong moral compass.
- Builder Mentality: Bias for action and high ownership.
- Culture Fit: Alignment with our motto of hiring people who are smart, nice, and get things done. Ability to work effectively in a remote-first, distributed team environment.
What We Offer:
- A unique opportunity to build and shape the recruiting function within the cutting-edge Shaper environment;
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- The chance to work with some of the brightest minds in the industry and make a tangible impact on the companies we build.
How to Apply: Please submit your resume and a cover letter outlining your relevant experience and why you are excited about this opportunity.
