Head of Talent

Join Flowcode, a fast-growing company, as the Head of Talent. In this role, you will define the talent bar for each function, maintain an always-on pipeline of top talent, and own the referral engine. You will also manage the recruiting funnel metrics, run the final mile on senior hires, and oversee the employee lifecycle from onboarding to offboarding. Additionally, you will handle HR systems administration, benefits administration, performance reviews, people data analysis, internal communications, office management, employee feedback strategy, company-wide meetings, team-building experiences, and recognition programs. This is an in-person position based in New York.

• Define and uphold the standards for top talent across all functions at Flowcode, ensuring a consistent and rigorous hiring process.
• Develop and maintain a proactive talent pipeline for critical roles, utilizing direct sourcing and referrals to attract high-quality candidates.
• Oversee the entire recruitment process, from initial outreach to final negotiations, ensuring a swift and efficient hiring experience.

• You will be in our New York office. This is an in-person job at an in-person company
• You write and communicate clearly and effectively
• You have been a trusted partner to managers on performance issues and difficult conversations, with the judgment to know when to bring in Legal
• Hands-on ownership of People operations at a growing company: PEO and HRIS administration, payroll, benefits and performance review cycles. You have run these yourself, not only overseen them
• You run your funnel like a revenue pipeline — stage conversion, coverage ratios, source yield, cost per hire — and you can defend those numbers to an executive team that will read every one of them
• You have personally closed senior hires that other good companies also wanted. Not "managed a process" — personally closed
• You are AI-native in practice, not in vocabulary. You have built sourcing, screening, research or People-ops workflows with AI tooling, and you can show us what they produced
• 7+ years in People & Talent, including at least two years leading talent at a company between 50 and 500 people. You have recruited into both go-to-market and engineering
• 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
• 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 planned company offsites or All Hands that people still talk about
• You have competed against Google, Meta, OpenAI or a well-funded Series C for the same person and won on mission and slope rather than on cash
• You have hired ahead of need — mapped and warmed a market months before the req existed
• 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 told a hiring manager “no” on their favorite candidate, stood by it, and been proven right
• You have managed an office or workplace function, or led a direct report who did