Head of Talent

We’re building the next generation of enterprise software and we’re starting with a suite of products that help talent leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers run their hiring process significantly better (we haven’t shared much publicly about what we’re building yet, but we’ll be more specific once we meet).

We are well funded and backed by great investors, including Y Combinator, Elad Gil and Lachy Groom.

We have not launched publicly yet, but we're already working with amazing companies, such as Plaid, Airtable, Snyk, Benchling and SalesLoft (and many others which we cannot name yet).

About Ashby

We’re building the next generation of enterprise software and we’re starting with a suite of products that help talent leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers run their hiring process significantly better (we haven’t shared much publicly about what we’re building yet, but we’ll be more specific once we meet).

We are well funded and backed by great investors, including Y Combinator, Elad Gil and Lachy Groom. We have not launched publicly yet, but we're already working with amazing companies, such as Opendoor, Plaid, Airtable, Snyk, Benchling and SalesLoft (and many others which we cannot name yet) - it's a great time to join 🚀

About this Role

As our Head of Talent you will partner closely with Benji (our CEO) and Abhik (Head of Engineering) to expand our excellent engineering team and build out our go-to-market side. You will also have input into how the next generation of recruiting software is built!

Since we already have a fairly mature recruiting function we need less support on the process side (e.g. building out interview plans, intake meetings, etc.) and instead are looking for someone who excels in two areas :

• Building out top of funnel : talent mapping, building out an excellent sourcing function (can be in-house or with external support), owning recruiting marketing (we’ve already had success with our first piece of content). We have a good track record of closing great candidates. We want you to help get us in front of more of them and ensure we have diversity in our candidate pool.

• Building out and tracking progress against a hiring plan. We want you to take inputs from our different hiring managers and assemble them into a hiring plan (with priorities and rough timing associated with each of the hires). Then we want you to figure out the required resourcing and track progress against the plan. It is less important to make accurate predictions about when we will fill roles (that’s not easily possible). Instead we want you to be the owner of the plan who is always in touch with which critical roles are falling behind; allowing you to make adjustments as needed.

We strongly believe (& embody) that hiring and retaining the best talent is critical. We will give the leader in this role the autonomy and resources required to do an excellent job.

You could be a great fit if

• 👷‍♀️ You're excited to build a world-class talent function from the ground up

• 💡 You find creative ways to to connect with talent

• 📊 You use metrics to measure progress and make adjustments

• ⚡️ You move fast. You constantly find areas of improvement. You use tools/technology to leverage your time (and you have opinions on how recruiting tools should be improved)

• 🔍 You pay a lot of attention to detail. You take pride in a clean recruiting pipeline. You obsess over staying on top of all candidates in process (Ashby helps with this too!)

• 📢 You can tell Ashby's story in way that resonates with candidates

• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 You have a track record of building a strong recruiting team

Our Philosophy

Here are a few key points (relevant to the go-to-market side) that should give you an idea of what it is like to work with us:

• We spend a lot of time building best-in-class products since we believe a highly differentiated product is a lot easier to sell.

• We want to offer deep expertise whenever we interact with prospects and customers.

• We strongly believe that small teams with very talented people (and the right work environment) deliver much better performance than teams with large headcount. We hire and compensate accordingly.

We value a strong sense of ownership, principled thinking over experience, and thoughtful communication (we put a lot of effort into using the right communication channels) - we’ll get into these and other values during the hiring process.

Benefits

• You’ll get the time to do things the right way; we put a lot of emphasis on high quality work and avoid quick hacks as much as possible

• You get to sell a product that our prospects & customers are truly excited about

• Competitive compensation

• Top notch health insurance for you and your dependents with all premiums covered by us

• 401(k) matching if you're in the US

Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.

Our technology stack is: TypeScript (frontend & backend), Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Redis.

We don’t require previous experience with these, but experience with and a love for typed languages are helpful!

We care a lot about optimizing our tools and automating workflows as it allows us to work with smaller teams. You should share that enthusiasm and be excited to contribute.