Head of Talent

What You'll Do

• Build and lead the talent function at Concourse as our first talent hire, owning recruiting end to end from pipeline to close.
• Partner with the CEO and hiring managers to define what great looks like for every role, from engineers to go-to-market to operations.
• Own full-cycle recruiting for our hardest searches: sourcing, selling, interviewing, and closing exceptional candidates in a competitive market.
• Design and run a hiring process that is fast, rigorous, and gives every candidate a strong impression of Concourse.
• Build the systems, scorecards, and playbooks that let the company hire repeatably as it scales.
• Shape how Concourse tells its story to candidates, from job descriptions to outreach to the interview experience.
• Own the candidate-to-employee handoff, making sure every new hire starts strong.
• Track pipeline health and hiring metrics, and proactively address gaps before they slow the company down.
• Use AI tools to scale your work, automating sourcing, screening, scheduling, and reporting.

What We're Looking For

• Several years of experience in recruiting, talent, or people roles, ideally at a fast-growing startup or top search firm.
• Track record of closing exceptional candidates for hard-to-fill roles, especially engineers and early startup hires.
• Eagerness to work at a startup: you want ownership of an entire function, you're comfortable being the only talent person in the room, and you'd rather build the machine than operate inside one.
• Enthusiasm for AI: you're excited to use tools like Claude to 10x your output.
• Strong judge of people: you can distinguish genuinely great from merely polished, and hiring managers trust your read.
• Structured thinker who can turn ambiguous situations into a clear plan and next steps.
• High agency: you find the work that needs doing and do it without being asked.
• Strong communicator who can engage equally well with a senior engineering candidate and a government program director.

Why This Role

• Build the Talent Function From Scratch – You're the first talent hire, defining how Concourse finds, evaluates, and closes the people who will build the company.
• Own the Company's Biggest Lever – At this stage, every hire meaningfully changes the trajectory; the team you help assemble is the company.
• Work Directly with the CEO – Partner with a repeat founder on the searches that matter most, with a direct line into every hiring decision.
• Ground Floor Opportunity – Join an early-stage startup led by a repeat founder with a successful exit.

About Concourse

Concourse is a fast-growing, AI-native startup building software for the public sector. This is the second venture for our CEO, after a successful exit. We help governments provide better services to citizens at a lower cost by replacing inefficient legacy systems. We're building everything from Hawaii's online bail platform to a system that flags leaks in residents' homes in Owosso, Michigan.

Technology and work have fundamentally changed. Join a team of superstars in a flat organizational structure, where being AI-native means every team member is empowered by a running fleet of long-horizon agents to own entire projects and client relationships end to end.

Based in Flatiron, NYC.