San Francisco, California, USA Hybrid Full-time USD 175000-240000/year

Lightfield is hiring a Head of Talent

About the Role

As Head of Talent, you will own the full recruitment lifecycle for critical roles across engineering, design, and business functions. This role is central to shaping the company’s growth by identifying and attracting top-tier technical and product talent, particularly in machine learning, infrastructure, and product development.

Talent Strategy & Brand

You’ll define the hiring bar and craft a compelling employer narrative that resonates with elite builders. Your work will position the company as the destination for engineers and designers who value technical excellence and first-principles thinking in redefining CRM.

Recruitment Systems

You’ll build a sourcing engine from the ground up—leveraging outbound strategies, employee referrals, community outreach, and events. Your approach will be data-informed and repeatable, ensuring consistent pipeline quality even in a rapidly evolving landscape.

Process & Experience

You’ll design and refine hiring workflows, integrating ATS and communication tools to maintain rigor and responsiveness. Every candidate, whether hired or not, should walk away with a clear impression of respect and efficiency.

Leadership & Collaboration

You’ll partner closely with the CEO and hiring managers to calibrate on roles, improve interview practices, and close strong candidates. Weekly insights into funnel performance and hiring velocity will inform strategic decisions.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting, with deep experience hiring for technical roles in early-stage startups
  • Track record of closing senior and staff-level engineers in competitive markets
  • Experience building or transforming recruiting infrastructure in low-overhead environments
  • Strong technical fluency in modern ML and software stacks to assess candidate quality
  • Independent and decisive—able to operate autonomously and adapt quickly

Compensation & Benefits

  • Competitive salary and meaningful early equity
  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • 401k plan with company matching
  • 3 weeks of paid time off
  • 11 paid company holidays, plus winter break
  • Paid family leave (3 months)
  • Commuter and lunch stipend
  • Hybrid work model with work-from-home on Wednesdays
  • Regular team dinners, offsites, and retreats
Required Skills
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About company
Lightfield

Lightfield is an AI-native CRM for early stage teams built to capture, analyze, and understand everything about their customer.

We're creating software that helps founders build better businesses. Our mission is to help founders build better businesses by enabling deep customer understanding — knowing not just who your customers are, but why they buy, where they get value, and what keeps them coming back.

We believe the best companies are built on a world model of their business — one that remembers every conversation, preserves the reasoning behind every decision, and makes that knowledge accessible to everyone building the product. This is what we’re building at Lightfield: your foundational infrastructure for customer understanding.

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Job Details
Department Talent
Category management
Posted 5 months ago