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Founding Head of Talent

Zingage Inc., New York, NY, USA

Pay: 125.000

Job type: Full Time


Zingage is an AI platform for home‑based care, scaling with advanced AI agents to handle over 2,600 scheduling calls per week and a GTM system that pre‑prepares sellers.

We are growing from about 20 to 40 employees in the next three months and need to onboard 20 new hires across engineering, AI/ML, product design, and enterprise sales. Your role is to build and own a world‑class recruiting function that fuels this rapid growth.

Responsibilities

  • Own the entire recruiting function: sourcing, screening, and closing until you build and lead a team.
  • Develop a proactive pipeline for approximately ten open engineering, AI/ML, product design, enterprise sales, and GTM roles.
  • Work with functional leaders to anticipate quarterly hiring needs.
  • Build and scale the outbound engine to replace reliance on contingent recruiters.
  • Design and implement the interview process, defining what we test for and how we evaluate candidates.
  • Deliver an end‑to‑end high‑touch candidate experience from first outreach through signed offer.
  • Maintain recruiting infrastructure, including Ashby optimization, pipeline analytics, and conversion metrics.

Qualifications

  • Experience sourcing and closing roles at a rapidly growing company (e.g., Ramp, Uber) with high‑volume sourcing and cold outreach that converts.
  • A proven builder mindset that has scaled an in‑house recruiting function.
  • Strong opinions about quality; proven ability to defend high‑quality hires against salary or prestige arguments.
  • Obsessive focus on pipeline – building relationships even before requisitions open.
  • Desire to own a department from scratch rather than inherit an existing one.

Not a good fit

  • Someone who posts a job and waits for inbound candidates.
  • Someone who optimizes for speed over quality.
  • Someone who requires a CHRO or executive to dictate day‑to‑day activities.

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