Open role
Head of People & Talent
Build the recruiting system, management foundations and operating practices for a small team taking high-consequence infrastructure to market.
Team People
Location New York, NY (hybrid)
Type Full-time
Level Leadership
Compensation $210,000 – $265,000 base + equity + benefits
What we are building
Dipp AI Technologies is on a mission to close the gap between AI’s advanced reasoning capabilities and an enterprise’s ability to trust it with real work: verifiable, cost-disciplined, and in control of its own data.
We build Orcher, the agentic control plane that enforces Human-in-the-Role across seven components, and Dipp Intelligence, our Enterprise Superintelligence solution that compounds on verified execution.
Work directly with the founding team, building for customers from startups to Fortune 100 companies across industries. Help enterprises adopt frontier models, open weights and new compute providers without surrendering authority, economics or data control.
About the role
Dipp AI is building a compact team for a technically demanding category. Hiring well means understanding what each role must accomplish, finding evidence of unusual depth, running a rigorous and respectful process, and helping every new colleague become effective without adding layers of ceremony.
You will establish the company's people and talent function with the founding team. The immediate work is hands-on: role design, sourcing, structured interviews, candidate communication, references, offers and onboarding. As the team grows, you will build the underlying systems for compensation, leveling, manager support, performance, benefits and workplace policy.
This role requires judgment beyond recruiting volume. You will help distinguish genuine systems depth from polished presentation, design fair assessments for different disciplines, protect candidate trust, and build practices appropriate for a company serving customers from startups to Fortune 100 enterprises across industries.
What you will do
- Translate company priorities into clear role scorecards, hiring plans and realistic sequencing with the founding team
- Personally source and close senior engineering, product, research, security, customer and commercial talent
- Design structured interviews and work samples that test job-relevant evidence while respecting candidate time
- Own candidate communication, references, offers, onboarding and the first months of employee experience
- Establish compensation bands, leveling principles, benefits administration and essential people policies
- Build lightweight systems for goal setting, feedback, manager development and performance decisions
- Track funnel quality, time, candidate experience and hiring outcomes without optimizing for activity alone
- Create an inclusive, high-accountability operating environment suited to consequential infrastructure work
What we look for
- A record of personally hiring exceptional senior technical talent in an early-stage or technically demanding environment
- Strong judgment about evidence, references, assessment design and closing
- Working knowledge of compensation, leveling, employment practices, benefits and people operations
- Excellent discretion, follow-through and written communication
- Comfort moving between strategy and detailed execution without a large recruiting or HR team
- Ability to challenge vague requirements and turn them into an equitable, job-relevant process
Experience
- 7+ years across talent, people operations or recruiting leadership, including meaningful hands-on execution
- Built or substantially improved the people systems of a growing technology company
- Experience hiring infrastructure, security, AI, enterprise product or customer-engineering teams is strongly valued
Education
- No specific degree required; demonstrated judgment, operating depth and results matter most
- Experience building a people function inside a startup counts more than any credential.
Compensation and benefits
- Equity with a standard four-year vest and early-stage upside
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Company-provided hardware and professional-development budget
- Direct partnership with the founding team on company design
- Hybrid collaboration in New York
- 401(k) with company contribution and an annual learning budget.
How we hire
- 01Conversation with the founding team about the company we intend to build
- 02Career deep dive covering hires, systems and difficult judgment calls you personally owned
- 03Working session: turn a critical company objective into a hiring and onboarding plan
- 04Reference conversations
- 05Final discussion on scope, working style and mutual expectations