Head of Talent

ABOUT HEX Hex is growing our team of builders on a mission to make everyone a data person. Our platform solves key pain points with today’s data and analytics tooling, and empowers anyone to explore data using natural language, with or without code, on trusted context. Thousands of customers like Ramp https://hex.tech/customers/ramp/, Figma https://hex.tech/customers/figma/, Stubhub https://hex.tech/customers/stubhub/, Anthropic, and Gamma love Hex https://www.g2.com/products/hex-tech-hex/reviews for our beautiful UI, agentic superpowers, and boundless flexibility. Hex has raised over $100M from leading investors like Sequoia, a16z, Snowflake and Amplify. With office hubs in San Francisco and New York, as well as remote team members throughout the US and UK, we’re a high-agency team that ships fast and has fun doing it. Check out our Intro to Hex video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAXsnrNlavk and employee handbook https://www.notion.so/hexhq/Hex-Handbook-9fff0d42860e4f70815c599e0d1664d6 to learn more about what it’s like to work at Hex. About the role: We’re looking for a talent leader to build a repeatable, data driven recruiting engine that translates Hex’s culture in a real and tangible way. You’ll start by making our bar something we can actually teach, so every interviewer is holding the same line instead of their own. From there you’ll shape the rest of it: how we find people, what candidates feel going through our process, and the systems and data underneath all of it. In everything you do, you’ll obsess over whether we’re hiring the people who change the trajectory of this company. Hex is full of people who are smart, a little weird, and impossible to replace with a model. We hire for the out-of-distribution: the people who turn things on their head, who have the idea that sounds implausible right up until it feels inevitable. As a data company, our hiring process should be an advertisement for that, and you’ll have the benefit of using Hex to make it one. This role reports to our Head of People and is based in San Francisco or New York. We’re in the office at least three days a week, and most of us are there more than that, because we do our best thinking and building together in person. We’re looking for someone who’s genuinely excited to be there alongside the team. What you will do - Own the bar, and make other people better at holding it. Interview kits with thoughtful rubrics, interviewer training, hiring lead calibration. A high bar isn't worth much if every interviewer applies it differently, and at our volume that's the difference between scaling and drifting. - Get real signal earlier. A resume tells you who has already done the job. We'd rather give people a way to show us what they can do, and do it before we've spent twelve engineer hours finding out. Redesigning where evidence sits in our funnel is one of the first things we'd want you to own. - Find people other companies don't. Market maps, signals, networks, our own alumni and silver medalists, communities. If the answer to a hard search is a LinkedIn Recruiter seat, this isn't the right role for you. - Build the system, not just the team. Own the stack, the automation, and the call on what we stop doing by hand. We're mid-migration to Ashby and rolling out AI-assisted sourcing. We want a point of view on where AI creates real leverage and where a human has to stay in the loop. - Close. You'll personally run and close our hardest searches, and you'll still be doing that in month six. Own the comp, leveling and equity conversation alongside Finance rather than delivering someone else's offer. - Lead the team. Recruiters, sourcers, coordinators and recruiting operations. Grow them, keep them, raise the bar on the function, and structure it for 500 rather than for today. - Own the story. Our EVP, our content, our events, and what candidates feel going through our process. Every candidate comes onsite to experience Hex in person, and we want that to be the most memorable process they've been through. About You: - You have a theory of talent. Not every company has the same point of view on this, and you want to help Hex build its own: what recruiting systematically overvalues, when pedigree matters and when it doesn’t, and how you read slope. - You’re a true partner to leads. You understand the business need and help design the role with them, which sometimes means saying the profile they asked for is a set of proxies for something nobody has defined yet. - You’re a builder. Automations, scoring, sourcing infrastructure, prompt libraries, the opportunities are endless. When the work grows your instinct is to increase leverage before adding recruiters, and you’re excited that we’re building this way. - You’ve taken over a team, not only built one. You raised its bar without losing it, and people who worked for you would come work for you again. - You hold a stunning bar. Good enough is never good enough, in who we hire or in how every candidate experiences us. - You’re direct, warm and low ego. You’d rather name the messy thing than manage around it. - What this role isn’t: a generalist People leadership role, or a seat where you direct from above. In your first six months you’ll be running searches yourself alongside the team. If that sounds like a step back rather than the fun part, this probably isn’t the right fit. The salary range for this role is: $220,000 - $275,000 In addition to our unique culture, Hex proudly offers a competitive total rewards package, including but not limited to, market-benched salary & equity, comprehensive health benefits, and flexible paid time off. The salary range shown may be a reflection of additional factors such as geographical location and skill ranges/levels we’re open to. Placement in the salary range will be decided upon completion of the interview process, taking into account factors like leaving room for growth, internal fairness & parity, your demonstrated skills, and the depth of your experience. Our Recruiting team will be able to provide more details during the interview process. By submitting an application the candidate consents to the use of their personal information in accordance with the Hex Privacy policy: https://learn.hex.tech/docs/trust/privacy-policy.