Head of Founder Network & Venture Talent

Dedicated to founding, funding, and building data and AI-native startups. Led by a team of serial AI founders with multiple exits, it operates within a people-first culture, bringing hands-on support to its portfolio companies from ideation through exit. They don’t just critique - they roll up their sleeves and partner with product-centric co-founders who bring grit, humility, and clock-speed. Every company starts in-house, fully seed-funded by them, before they invite outside investors at Series A.

The Head of Founder Search and Venture Talent is both strategist and doer, owning the single most important element of company creation: identifying the right co-founders. This is not a traditional recruiting role. It is a founder-talent hunting, relationship-driven operator role focused on building and running the co-founder pipeline for ventures. This role will shape their founder-talent narrative, lead high-value co-founders and founding team searches, and drive strategic conversations that convert exceptional operators, technologists, and aspiring founders into venture-building partners.

They are looking for a deeply curious, outgoing, strategically sharp talent scout eager to experiment with unconventional channels and creative approaches to attract and convert rare founder-caliber individuals.

• Lead their talent-to-company formation program, Signal, and facilitate workflows between partners, founders, and talent to ensure high-velocity company formation
• Write high-quality solution memos synthesizing founder signals, venture hypotheses, and team formation insights
• Identify and engage high-potential founders, operators, technologists, and builders across diverse ecosystems.
• Run deep discovery conversations that test founder mindset, leadership compatibility, collaboration style, and venture-building potential.
• Build and own the end-to-end founder pipeline: market mapping, outreach, relationship building, and final evaluation alongside the Partners.
• Partner with Marketing to shape and iterate its founder-talent narrative, and design targeted touchpoints: content, round tables, events-meetups and brand moments that attract exceptional co-founders and founding teams.
• Open and experiment with unconventional talent channels and networks like open-source communities, product communities, consulting networks, ex-founder circles.
• Develop a deep understanding of what makes a founder succeed within company and source talent capable of avoiding historical failure patterns (e.g., product-market fit, leadership misalignment, rigidity, etc.).

• 7-9 years experience in high-caliber, high-touch roles: consulting, founder office, chief-of-staff, venture talent or recruiting for niche, high-value roles.

• A naturally extroverted, hunter-style personality who is comfortable networking anywhere, anytime.
• A “doer” mentality with very-high clock-speed, strong synthesis capabilities, and a strong growth mindset.
• PLUS:
  Ability to drive strategic conversations, think 3 layers deep, and influence highly technical or entrepreneurial talent across the engineering, product and GTM community.

• High-energy, proactive, and thrives in high-ownership environments
• Confident and credible extroverted communicator who can build new connections and hold their own in conversations with highly technical or entrepreneurial talent
• Curious, strategic, fast learner who enjoys experimentation and able to synthesise quickly
• Comfortable with ambiguity, creative sourcing, and navigating non-linear paths to exceptional talent