Head of Talent

Responsibilities

• The Build: You will get under the hood of the existing process and add the structure that makes great hires repeatable as we scale. Intake discipline, scorecards, SLAs, evaluation rubrics, and ATS hygiene are all in scope.
• The Bar: You will protect Probook's quality bar across every function and level. You'll calibrate it across roles you've never personally hired for and push back on hiring managers who want to lower it, without sacrificing speed.
• Brand From Zero: You will own engineering top-of-funnel, which is our biggest sourcing challenge. With minimal marketing budget, you'll build the content, community, and engineer-as-ambassador playbook that turns Probook into a destination for talent.
• The Team: You will partner with our two existing recruiters and recruiting coordinator, develop them as the function grows, and expand the team over time as our hiring volume increases.

Requirements

• "Hands-on Closer": You'd rather close a critical hire yourself than route them through a coordinator. You've personally landed critical hires, run searches, or owned the first 50 to 80 hires at a startup solo. "I usually manage the process, not execute it" is not in your vocabulary.
• "Bar Defender": You've actually pushed back on a founder or VP who wanted to move a candidate forward that didn't hit the bar, and you can tell the story. You calibrate by going deep on prior best hires, not by reading a JD. Under velocity pressure, you don't fold; you offer alternatives.
• "Cross-Functional": You've hired engineers, salespeople, ops, CS, and product, at every level, in the same company. You know that sourcing a Staff Engineer and an SMB AE are different sports, and you can speak credibly to both.
• 7 to 15 years in talent acquisition or recruiting at a high-growth B2B SaaS company, with at least one stint as the founding or early talent hire at a venture-backed startup before 100 people.
• Demonstrated track record of building or evolving a recruiting function: designing the system, not just executing inside one someone else built.
• Personally hired top tier talent across technical (engineering, product) and non-technical (sales, marketing, ops, CS) roles in the same organization, at every level from IC to VP.
• Has managed a recruiting team, including hiring, developing, and calibrating recruiters.
• Has built employer brand from zero, with concrete examples of content, community, or candidate-facing initiatives that moved measurable inbound pipeline, ideally on the engineering side.
• Tech-forward: fluent in modern AI-enabled re

Additional Information

ABOUT PROBOOK Probook is the AI Operating System for the home services industry, transforming how plumbing, HVAC, and electrical businesses operate. Our impact is real. Dispatching the right technician to the right job can mean the difference between a $300 "band-aid" fix and a $20,000 system replacement. By automating previously high-touch workflows around-the-clock, Probook ensures a consistent customer experience without the need for 24/7 live staffing. We unify our customers' processes into a single, scalable platform, giving businesses one place to run their entire dispatch operation. Role Description Probook is hiring a founding Head of Talent to build the recruiting engine for its next stage of growth. This person will own the systems, processes, and standards that make hiring repeatable at scale, while personally closing the company's most important technical and leadership hires. The role spans intake discipline, scorecards, evaluation rubrics, ATS hygiene, hiring manager calibration, employer brand, and team development. Probook needs a hands-on function builder who can protect a high talent bar under pressure, create engineering top-of-funnel from zero, and hire across engineering, product, sales, marketing, ops, and CS. This is a high-autonomy, CEO-reporting mandate for someone who has built an early-stage recruiting function before and is equally credible as a strategist, operator, and closer.

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