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Head of Talent/Talent Lead
ZetaLabs
Salary
$120k – $300k
Work mode
On-site
What we're looking for
- NYC-based, onsite with the founders
- Experience setting up a hiring function
- Ability to hire across engineering, GTM, and ops
- Experience with AI workflows, scorecards, interview loops, ATS setup
- High taste for talent; ability to recognize A-players
About the role
About the Role:
- You will own talent end-to-end at ZetaLabs, the team behind Viktor and Jace.
- This is not a "manage a team of recruiters" role. You’ll be sourcing, screening, and closing top 1% talent yourself, while building the system that lets us 5x the team without lowering the bar.
- Work directly with the founders. Every hire goes through you.
- You will be the person candidates remember from the process — and the reason A-players say yes.
What You’ll Do:
- Run full-cycle hiring for engineering, GTM, and operations roles across NYC, Warsaw, and Munich.
- Source proactively — outbound is the default, inbound is a bonus. You’ll build target lists, write outreach that gets replies, and run your own pipeline.
- Design the hiring system: AI workflows, scorecards, interview loops, calibration, ATS setup, referral programs, employer brand — the whole stack, built to scale from 20 to 100+.
- Close candidates. Negotiate offers. Sell the mission, the product, the equity, the team.
- Partner with founders on org design — who we hire next, when, and why.
- Own talent metrics: time-to-hire, source quality, offer acceptance, retention at 6 months.
How You’ll Know You’re Succeeding:
- Top-of-funnel quality is high enough that founders trust your shortlist without re-screening.
- Hires you’ve made are still here, still shipping, 12 months in.
- The hiring system runs without you having to be in every loop — but you still are, because you want to be.
- We’re hiring faster than competitors and losing fewer candidates at offer stage.
How We Work:
- Small team, high trust, minimal process — but the process you build for talent will be the exception.
- Decisions are made by owners, not committees. You own talent.
- Onsite in NYC because hiring is a contact sport and the best calibration happens at the whiteboard, not over Zoom.
- Expect to run your first search in week one.
- We use our own products internally — you’ll see Viktor and Jace from the inside.
- You will own talent end-to-end at ZetaLabs, the team behind Viktor and Jace.
- This is not a "manage a team of recruiters" role. You’ll be sourcing, screening, and closing top 1% talent yourself, while building the system that lets us 5x the team without lowering the bar.
- Work directly with the founders. Every hire goes through you.
- You will be the person candidates remember from the process — and the reason A-players say yes.
What You’ll Do:
- Run full-cycle hiring for engineering, GTM, and operations roles across NYC, Warsaw, and Munich.
- Source proactively — outbound is the default, inbound is a bonus. You’ll build target lists, write outreach that gets replies, and run your own pipeline.
- Design the hiring system: AI workflows, scorecards, interview loops, calibration, ATS setup, referral programs, employer brand — the whole stack, built to scale from 20 to 100+.
- Close candidates. Negotiate offers. Sell the mission, the product, the equity, the team.
- Partner with founders on org design — who we hire next, when, and why.
- Own talent metrics: time-to-hire, source quality, offer acceptance, retention at 6 months.
How You’ll Know You’re Succeeding:
- Top-of-funnel quality is high enough that founders trust your shortlist without re-screening.
- Hires you’ve made are still here, still shipping, 12 months in.
- The hiring system runs without you having to be in every loop — but you still are, because you want to be.
- We’re hiring faster than competitors and losing fewer candidates at offer stage.
How We Work:
- Small team, high trust, minimal process — but the process you build for talent will be the exception.
- Decisions are made by owners, not committees. You own talent.
- Onsite in NYC because hiring is a contact sport and the best calibration happens at the whiteboard, not over Zoom.
- Expect to run your first search in week one.
- We use our own products internally — you’ll see Viktor and Jace from the inside.
Compensation & benefits
Salary: $120k – $300k
Equity details
Details: meaningful equity
About ZetaLabs
ZetaLabs is the team behind Viktor (getviktor.ai), the AI coworker that lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams and performs real work for companies in finance, marketing, ops, and engineering — and Jace (jace.ai), an autonomous web agent. The company aims to replace half the SaaS stack with a single teammate.