Searchable
AI
FoundingHeadofTalent
“Founding Head of Talent at Searchable. Skills: Expert headhunting, Building talent functions from scratch, Strategic sourcing and closing of senior hires, Leveraging AI for recruitment at scale and for craft. Own the strategy, sourcing, and close for critical hires.. Build the talent function, set the bar, and deliver hires.”
What You'll Achieve.
Make 25-40 critical hires across Engineering, AI, Product, GTM, and Leadership in the next 12 months.; Ensure the quality of hires determines Searchable's success in AI search visibility.; Track time-to-hire, source-of-hire, conversion, and quality-of-hire with discipline.; Raise the bar for hiring over time.
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Six to ten or more years in recruitment or talent acquisition, with meaningful in-house experience at a high-growth SaaS, AI, or venture-backed startup., Demonstrable track record of personally closing senior hires from elite companies., Experience building or substantially rebuilding a recruiting function from scratch or near-scratch., Outbound sourcing skills, with evidence of replies and closes from passive candidates., Comfortable hiring across the stack: Engineering, AI/ML, Product, GTM, and Leadership., High agency, high urgency, and complete ownership of outcomes.
Nice to Have
Experience hiring for AI, ML, infrastructure, developer tooling, or technical SaaS companies., Existing networks across London’s AI, SaaS, Product, Engineering, and Growth ecosystems., Experience using AI-native recruiting workflows, enrichment tools, automation, or Clay-style outbound systems., Prior experience as the first talent hire in a venture-backed company., Experience hiring internationally or building distributed talent pipelines.
What You'll Do.
and close for critical hires.
Build the talent function
Operate AI at scale for volume work (candidate identification
first-stage screening
Leverage AI to deepen human work for senior hires (research dossiers
Translate company goals into a hiring plan
sequence roles by criticality
and run the weekly operating cadence with founders and hiring managers.
Personally source and close the hardest hires.
and run pipelines that get responses from passive candidates.
Develop networks across SaaS
and Growth in London and internationally.
and assessment frameworks.
Select and implement the ATS
Build the playbook for future talent hires.
Act as the final filter on every hire
calibrate hiring managers
and own the recommendation at offer stage.
Make Searchable a place top operators want to work.
Make every candidate interaction positive.
As the company scales
hire and lead the internal talent function.
Coach future recruiters.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Run the weekly operating cadence with founders and hiring managers.; Calibrate hiring managers.; Run debriefs.; Coach future recruiters.
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