Talent Partner - Engineering

About the role

As a member of our talent team, you’ll play a critical role in making Ode the best place to learn applied AI. You’ll identify and engage top candidates, with a primary focus on engineering hiring. You’ll own the candidate experience end-to-end, from first touch through close, ensuring a high-signal, high-quality process for every candidate.

What You'll Do

• Source exceptional talent: Identify and engage top candidates, with a primary focus on engineering hiring.
• Own the candidate experience end-to-end: Build trust, understand motivations, and ensure a high-signal, high-quality process for every candidate.
• Build on a high-performing recruiting process: Come alongside a strong existing system and help evolve it, bringing new ideas and using data, AI, and experimentation to refine how we evaluate and close talent.

What You Bring

• Track record of hiring top talent: Successfully hired founding engineers or staff/principal engineers in early-stage or high-growth environments.
• Strong judgment and empathy: Know what great looks like and build trust quickly with candidates and hiring teams.
• Data-driven and experimental mindset: Use data and experimentation to improve how you source, evaluate, and close candidates.
• Technical fluency: Understand modern engineering stacks and can credibly assess how candidates map to team needs.
• High ownership with a bias for leverage: Operate with precision and follow-through, looking for ways to scale your impact through tooling, automation, and AI.

Our Values

• Overdeliver: Write the playbook on how to create enterprise value with LLMs, and build our reputation as the world's best applied AI team.
• Overuse AI: Obsessively explore and experiment with Claude to push the frontier of applied AI and share what we learn with our teammates.
• Over”engineer” the Culture: Build a culture that attracts and retains top applied AI talent, and stress test large decisions through the perspective of our world-class builders.

Location

San Francisco, CA
New York, NY

Work Arrangement

4 days in-person, Fridays remote

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation Package: Attractive salary aligned with your experience and skills.
• 401k with Matching: Invest in your future with our company-matched retirement plan.
• Unlimited PTO: Take the time you need to relax and rejuvenate.
• Exceptional Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Comprehensive health benefits to keep you and your family healthy.
• Health FSA: Manage out-of-pocket health expenses effectively.
• Commuter Benefits: Make your travel to work easier and more affordable.
• Lifetime Life Insurance: Provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
• Team Events and Activities: Regular events to build camaraderie and a strong team spirit.