Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Valence is a pioneering company in leadership coaching for enterprises, focusing on AI-powered personalization. They are seeking a Lead Recruiter to manage the hiring process, shape hiring strategy, and ensure the recruitment aligns with the company's ambitious growth objectives.
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting across GTM (Sales, CS, Marketing) and technical roles as needed, from role definition through close
- Partner with hiring managers and leadership to define role scope, calibrate level, and align on success criteria tied to business outcomes
- Contribute to headcount planning and hiring prioritization, helping the company make informed tradeoffs on where and how to invest in talent
- Design and run structured, high-signal interview processes; drive calibration across interviewers to ensure consistent and high-quality hiring decisions
- Build proactive, high-quality pipelines through sourcing, referrals, and network mapping, with a focus on reaching top-quartile talent
- Help shape Valence's employer brand and deliver a high-touch, high-integrity candidate experience that reflects Valence’s standards, regardless of outcome
- Use funnel data (conversion rates, source quality, time-to-hire) to manage hiring performance and turn insight into action
- Bring market intelligence (talent landscape, compensation, competitor dynamics) into hiring decisions and leadership conversations
- Partner with leaders to turn what recruiting learns [about the talent market, comp, and competitors] into insight that sharpens decisions across the company
Skills
- 8+ years of full-cycle, in-house recruiting experience in high-growth B2B SaaS or AI environments, with exposure to both GTM and technical hiring
- A clear, well-formed point of view on what great recruiting looks like - how to assess talent, design effective processes, and hold a high hiring bar
- Genuine AI fluency: a real grasp on how AI changes recruiting, and a bias toward building it into the process
- A track record of operating autonomously in ambiguous, fast-moving environments, and of building or materially improving recruiting systems
- Demonstrated success hiring high-caliber talent in competitive markets through proactive sourcing and effective closing
- Strong sourcing instincts and an actively cultivated network, you don't wait on inbound to build pipeline
- Data fluency - you understand your funnel, use metrics to guide decisions, and hold yourself accountable to outcomes
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders, including challenging assumptions and driving alignment
- Experience with Ashby (or a comparable ATS), with a commitment to maintaining clean systems and using them as a source of truth
- Hands-on with AI sourcing/screening/ops tooling in your day-to-day workflow
- Experience hiring the 'consulting / professional-services → tech' profile, or recruiting in NYC's AI/tech market
- Founding-recruiter DNA: you've stood up recruiting as an early or first dedicated hire
- Exposure to employer-brand or talent-marketing work
- Experience partnering on compensation benchmarking and levelling
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision) from day one
- Generous PTO, company-wide R&R shutdowns, and paid parental leave
- Retirement plan support for US and global employees
- Meaningful ownership in a venture-backed company at a growth inflection point
- Top-up grants as we scale and you deliver exceptional performance — your compensation grows alongside your impact
- A culture built for top talent: intensity to win, growth without limits, and a team that solves hard problems and celebrates big wins together
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