Director of Talent

Overview

At FLORA, exceptional people are the foundation of everything we build. We’re looking for a Director of Talent to build and run our people function end-to-end — with the top priority being hiring world class talent. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who loves building from 0 to 1. You’ll execute — running recruiting, onboarding new hires, managing office logistics, and shaping culture — while strategically designing the systems that will scale as FLORA grows. You’ll partner closely with company leadership to ensure we attract, support, and develop exceptional talent, while maintaining a high-performance culture.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Recruiting & Talent

• Build and run FLORA’s recruiting engine from the ground up across all functions, with a focus on engineering. Recruiting is this role's top priority.
• Interview candidates, assessing role fit, culture add, and talent bar.
• Partner with hiring managers to define role scope, interview processes, and evaluation criteria.
• Manage the full hiring pipeline end-to-end — sourcing, scheduling, feedback, and offers — ensuring clarity and velocity.
• Collaborate with external search firms and sourcing partners.
• Design and continually improve hiring processes to optimize for insight into candidate ability, speed, and quality of hiring decisions.

Onboarding & Employee Experience

• Own onboarding processes, ensuring new hires are set up logistically before they start, and set up for success from day one.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for employee questions, support, and people-related needs.

Performance, Compensation & People Systems

• Design and implement performance evaluation and feedback processes across the company.
• Partner with leadership to develop compensation and benefits strategy, benchmarks, and leveling frameworks.

Culture & Engagement

• Help shape and reinforce FLORA’s culture through rituals, values-based initiatives, recognition programs, and engagement efforts.
• Plan and support team dinners, outings, and internal events that build connection and culture.
• Partner with leadership to translate values into daily behaviors and operating norms.

Office & Workplace Operations

• Own day-to-day office logistics and workplace experience for our Williamsburg, Brooklyn office.
• Ensure the office is functional, organized, guest-ready, and reflective of FLORA’s creative energy.
• Manage office supplies, equipment, vendors, and space configuration as the company grows.
• Contribute to the look, feel, and aesthetic of the office environment, elevating comfort and creativity.

Compliance & Operations

• Own core people-related compliance and administrative processes.
• Ensure policies, documentation, and processes are accurate, organized, and scalable as the company grows.

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of experience across people operations, recruiting, HR, or talent leadership in a high-growth startup environment.
• Proven ability to run recruiting hands-on, including technical and senior roles.
• Strong judgment on talent quality, culture fit, and team composition.
• Systems thinker who enjoys designing processes — and has a bias towards action in executing them.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented; able to manage many moving parts with clarity and precision.
• Clear, warm, and direct communicator who builds trust across all levels of the organization and with candidates.
• Passionate, purpose-led, and all-in. You are obsessed with working towards our vision and spreading it to the world.
• Hustle and work ethic. You are known for going the extra mile(s). You roll up your sleeves and consider no task beneath you.
• Relentless focus on efficiency and effectiveness. You prioritize the highest-leverage activities that have the highest ROI.
• Ownership mindset. You act like an owner - you have the highest standards of accountability for your work and proactively improve anything you see.
• Nimble. You iterate continuously (without spinning wheels), execute with an extreme sense of urgency (every minute counts), and dive into new problems & opportunities seamlessly.
• High bar for excellence + low ego. You\'re driven to win at the highest level. You seek and welcome feedback, and do what\'s best for the company and team.
• Service mentality. You constantly think about how you can serve and provide value to others - to customers, partners, and teammates.
• Daring. You bring to life bold, original ideas.

Job code EX-D2D67300

Job type: Full-time

Location: New York

About the company: Embedding VC

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