Hybrid Head of Recruiting

at Nectar Group

• Job title: Head of Recruiting
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $180,000 - $210,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Palo Alto, United States

About the role

• Head of Recruiting responsible for scaling talent acquisition from 40 to 100+ employees at Nectar Social. Leading full-cycle recruiting and team building in a high-growth environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the full recruiting lifecycle across engineering, product, design, GTM, and operations, from headcount planning through offer close.
• Personally source, engage, and close senior and leadership level hires while building a recruiting team to handle growing volume.
• Partner with the founders and hiring managers to translate business priorities into a hiring roadmap, ensuring the right roles are filled in the right sequence.
• Design and implement scalable recruiting infrastructure: structured interview loops, scorecards, pipeline analytics, and a candidate experience that reflects our brand.
• Build and lead a high performing recruiting team, hiring recruiters and coordinators as volume scales.
• Develop Nectar Social’s employer brand and talent positioning, making us a destination for top builders in AI, social commerce, and SaaS.
• Use data to drive decisions: track pipeline velocity, conversion rates, source effectiveness, and time-to-fill to continuously improve performance.
• Manage relationships with external recruiting partners and agencies where needed, while building toward a predominantly in-house function.

Requirements

• 8–12+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with at least 3+ years in a leadership or management role.
• Direct experience scaling a company through a high-growth phase (e.g., 30–50 to 100+ employees), ideally at a Series A or Series B startup.
• Proven ability to personally close exceptional candidates across both technical and non-technical roles.
• Track record of building recruiting processes and teams from the ground up, balancing speed, rigor, and candidate quality.
• Sharp strategic judgment: you know how to build a hiring plan, manage competing priorities, and advise founders on talent decisions.
• Strong instincts for culture add, role fit, and long-term potential, with a high talent bar you won’t compromise.
• Fluency with modern recruiting tools (ATS platforms, sourcing tools, analytics) and a data-driven approach to optimizing the funnel.
• Energized by in-person collaboration with the team in Palo Alto.
• Startup DNA: resourceful, adaptable, low ego, and comfortable operating in ambiguity.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and early equity
• Health, vision, and dental benefits + 401(k) match
• Clear career growth opportunities as the company scales
• Free lunch in the heart of University Ave. in Palo Alto
• Deep exposure to cutting-edge AI tooling and the opportunity to shape how brands use it
• A collaborative, ambitious team defining a new category of AI-native marketing infrastructure