Head of Talent

The posting, as Flowcode wrote it

Head of Talent

Location: New York, NY, onsite 5 days per week

Role type: Full time

Reports to: President

Why this role exists now

Flowcode builds the infrastructure that turns real world touchpoints into measurable, actionable first party IDs, enabling F500 brands to personalize consumer experiences at scale.

One of Flowcode’s founding principles is “the product is the team, and the team is the product.” We treat hiring with the same level of rigor we apply to product development. We have an extremely high hiring bar (the “pinhole process”), which to date we have applied by brute force. Our CEO, President and our executive team each personally read resumes, sit on interview loops, and close candidates. It works. But it also means our hiring speed is capped by the calendars of the ten busiest people in the company, and our pipeline stops the moment one promising candidate appears. The same principle applies after someone signs. The people we fight to hire need to be onboarded, developed, managed well and retained. Today those systems are spread across too many owners. This role brings them under one leader.

We are not hiring a coordinator, a req-filler, or an HR generalist who also does some recruiting. We are hiring the person who owns the talent bar, the pipeline and the close, and who owns the People foundation that makes great hires stay great. You are relentless in your proactive pursuit of top 1% talent, and you never consider the pipeline “good enough.” You are just as relentless about making Flowcode a place where exceptional people do their best work and grow.

What you own

Talent Acquisition

• The talent bar: You define, in writing, what "top 1%" means for each function at Flowcode, with calibrated scorecards and interview questions — and you hold the line when a hiring manager, or anyone else at the company, including the executive team, wants an exception.
• An always-on pipeline: You do not just open requisitions when a seat empties. You have named, warm, mapped talent for our most critical roles at all times, including seats that are currently filled.
• Outbound and referral as the default: Job boards produce volume; direct sourcing and referrals produce our best people. You flip the mix and you own the referral engine.
• Velocity: You compress the distance between "we met someone exceptional" and "they signed" from weeks to days.
• Data enablement: You own every metric and SLA in the recruiting funnel, including time to hire, time to fill and offer acceptance rate.
• The close: You personally run the final mile on every senior hire: comp framing, competing offers, partner and relocation objections, start dates.
• Agency strategy and spend: You minimize agency spend where possible, run the search-firm bench, and drive blended cost per hire down.
• A defensible process: Pay ranges in every posting, structured and consistent interviews, clean records in Greenhouse, and hiring decisions we can stand behind.

People
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You have told a hiring manager “no” on their favorite candidate, stood by it, and been proven right.

• You have built a referral program that produced a quarter or more of total hires, rather than one that produced a Slack channel.
• You have recruited inside a company where the executive team is deeply involved in hiring and made that an advantage instead of a bottleneck.
• You have hired ahead of need — mapped and warmed a market months before the req existed.
• You have managed an office or workplace function, or led a direct report who did.
• You have planned company offsites or All Hands that people still talk about.

Please do not apply if

• Your strongest work product is a process diagram rather than a list of people you hired.
• You need a built-out employer brand function, a content team and a six-person pod before you can produce hires.
• You see payroll, benefits and office operations as beneath the role. At our stage they are part of it.
• You are looking for remote or hybrid.
• You measure yourself in reqs closed rather than in who is still excellent and growing two years later.

Three things you should know

• Our executive team is intensely involved in hiring and is going to stay that way. You need to be the person who makes that a weapon rather than a constraint.
• You will be hands-on for at least two quarters — sourcing, screening, backup scheduling, running payroll and benefits — with the Office Manager as your only direct report before you get any additional headcount. The team comes after proof, and all leaders at Flowcode are expected to be player coaches.
• You are inheriting real gaps: scheduling drag, uneven scorecard discipline, a pipeline that pauses when one candidate looks promising, and People processes that have grown up piecemeal. You are responsible for closing those gaps and building a world class Talent & People function.

Compensation

• Compensation: $200,000 – $225,000 base salary, plus performance bonus and equity.