Talent Acquisition Lead

About the role

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who is equally energized by finding and closing exceptional talent and by building the systems, processes, team, and strategy behind a high-performing Talent Acquisition function. You’ll own critical searches, with an initial focus on Engineering and Product, while taking broader ownership for how Loop attracts, assesses, hires, and engages talent across the company. You’ll partner directly with senior leaders to understand their organizations, anticipate talent needs, and translate business priorities into thoughtful hiring strategies.

Responsibilities

• Evolve and scale Loop's TA function.
  • Own and continuously improve the processes, systems, tools, operating rhythms, and standards that enable us to hire exceptional talent efficiently as we grow.
  • Lead critical Engineering and Product hiring.
  • Stay hands-on with high-priority and complex searches, developing targeted sourcing strategies and personally engaging, assessing, and closing exceptional technical and product talent.
• Serve as a strategic talent partner to leaders.
  • Work closely with executives and hiring managers to understand business priorities, anticipate talent needs, define success profiles, assess talent markets, and build hiring strategies that support their organizations.
• Raise the bar for how we assess talent.
  • Build structured, high-signal interview processes, scorecards, assessment criteria, and calibration practices that help leaders make consistent and high-quality hiring decisions.
• Expand Loop's presence in the talent market.
  • Partner across the business to strengthen our employer brand and develop creative ways to build awareness and relationships with exceptional talent, particularly across the Engineering and Product communities.
• Build proactive talent pipelines.
  • Move beyond requisition-by-requisition recruiting by identifying priority talent markets, building long-term relationships, and developing sourcing strategies that give Loop access to talent before a role opens.
• Use data to run the function.
  • Establish meaningful recruiting metrics and operating rhythms that give leaders visibility into hiring progress, pipeline health, quality, velocity, sourcing effectiveness, and areas requiring intervention.
• Owning and evolving our recruiting technology.
  • Ensure our ATS, sourcing tools, automation, AI, and broader recruiting tech stack make the team more effective and create a scalable foundation for growth.
• Lead and develop the TA team.
  • Manage, coach, and raise the bar for a small team of recruiters, creating clarity around priorities, expectations, development, and what great recruiting looks like at Loop.
• Help shape what’s next.
  • As a senior member of the People team, contribute beyond Talent Acquisition to broader talent and People initiatives that strengthen how we attract, onboard, develop, and retain exceptional people.

Requirements

You have 7+ years of Talent Acquisition experience, ideally within high-growth technology companies, and have seen what great recruiting looks like during periods of meaningful scale. You’re a strategic, hands-on builder with deep experience recruiting Engineering and Product talent. You can credibly advise technical leaders and executives on talent strategy while personally sourcing and closing exceptional candidates, and you’ve built or meaningfully evolved the processes, systems, and programs that enable a recruiting function to scale. Prior direct people management experience is preferred.

Qualifications

You know how to build a high-performing, modern recruiting engine from structured hiring processes and exceptional candidate experience to employer brand, recruiting technology, and AI and use data and funnel insights to continuously improve hiring quality and outcomes. You thrive in ambiguity and are an ambitious builder, energized by the opportunity to create what doesn’t yet exist and grow from leading recruiting today to scaling a world-class Talent Acquisition function over time.

Skills

You have a strong understanding of the latest recruiting technologies and trends, including ATS, sourcing tools, automation, AI, and recruiting process outsourcing (RPO). You are skilled in managing a diverse team and fostering a positive work culture. You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and you are able to navigate complex situations with grace and professionalism.

Benefits

In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for equity compensation and an annual performance bonus. This role is also eligible for Loop's benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) match, paid time off, paid holidays, and parental leave.

Pay

The base pay range for this role is $190,000 to $210,000 annually. This range reflects the base pay that Loop reasonably expects to pay for the position at the time of hire. Actual compensation will depend on job-related factors, including experience, skills, qualifications, location, and business needs.

Schedule

This role is preferably based in San Francisco, with an expectation of being in the office 4+ days per week.