Founder Talent Acquisition

Hexa; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 62,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salaire brut annuel 62–68k €

Participation annuelle 20%

Carte Swile repas

RTT 8–12 jours/an

Télétravail flexible 2 jours/semaine

Budget mobilité 500 €/an

Assurance santé 50% couverture

Prime de vacances 1%

MacBook Pro

Job summary

Hexa est à la recherche d'un recruteur senior pour dénicher et convaincre des fondateurs potentiels à rejoindre nos projets. Vous conduirez le processus avec les partenaires et le CTO, gérant le pipeline et le scorecard Founder, tout en optimisant les méthodes d'acquisition et en fermant les profils les plus délicats.

Ce rôle exige une excellente connaissance des profils entrepreneuriaux, une capacité à challenger avec tact et une aisance à travailler en anglais et en français au sein d'un

Qualifications

• 2 à 7 ans d'expérience en recrutement proche des fondateurs.
• Antécédents de closing de postes founders/senior.
• Maîtrise de l'anglais et du français.

Responsibilities

• Source et approche proactive des fondateurs.
• Construire un pipeline pour chaque rôle founder en 2 semaines.
• Posséder le scorecard fondateur avec les partenaires.
• Mener entretiens et rapprocher candidats exigeants.
• Informer le marketing ce que chaque search manque.
• Agir en owner produit du stack recrutements (Ashby, outils sourcing, IA).

Skills

Recrutement

Recrutement de fondateurs

Closing de candidats seniors

Bilingue Anglais et Français

Gestion des parties prenantes

Tools

Ashby

Sourcing tools

AI agents

Recruiting stack

Job description

Who we are

Hexa is a venture studio. Since 2011, we've built more than 60 companies, including 3 unicorns. Every year, our startup studio, Hexa Start, creates 12 companies from scratch, and our accelerator, Hexa Sprint, funds several dozen more. Each Start company begins with a CEO and a CTO we recruit ourselves: finding them is our core business.

That's where you come in.

The role

Our partners bring the ideas. What turns an idea into a real company is the people who build it, so finding the right founders is Hexa's core business. That's your job: convincing aspiring founders to join us, walking them through a life-changing decision, and putting them in front of the right partner at the right time.

Our marketing team builds and nurtures the reservoir of future founders. You turn it into a pipeline for each open role (say, a CTO for a cybersecurity project with experience in LLM-built attacks), run the search with the partner leading the project, assess, and close. Laure, your peer, does the same for each company's first employees.

This is a senior individual contributor role. You'll need the business sense to read an idea and know what kind of founder it calls for, and a sharp eye for entrepreneurial profiles: you can tell a true entrepreneur from a strong manager, even when both look great on paper.

What you'll actually do

• Source, hands-on: inbound comes first, but you roll up your sleeves and reach out to everyone who looks on track to start something, before anyone else does,
• Build a pipeline for every open founder role within two weeks, from your own sourcing, the marketing reservoir and our scoring agents,
• Own the founder scorecard with the partners and fine-tune it every quarter against real hiring outcomes,
• Interview, assess and close demanding, sometimes hesitant candidates, alongside partners and our CTO,
• Tell marketing and community what each search is missing, down to the event it needs,
• Act as product owner of our recruiting stack (Ashby, sourcing tools, AI agents), and call in agencies when a search runs short.

What we're looking for

• 2 to 7 years in recruiting or talent acquisition, close to founders: fast-growing startup, VC fund, accelerator, studio, or founder and executive search
• You know what makes a strong founder, and you have examples rather than generalities
• A track record of closing senior or founder-level candidates, with numbers to back it
• You build trust fast, and you can challenge a candidate without putting them off
• You're as comfortable testing an agent or optimizing a workflow as building a relationship
• You have the standing to disagree with a partner, and the judgment to know when not to
• You are fluent in English and French

Our recruitment process

• First call with Laure, Talent Partner
• Introduction call with our CEO, to deepdive on the role
• Case study on a live search: pipeline, gaps and your plan for the next two weeks
• Interviews with two partners
• References with hiring managers and candidates you've placed

What's in it for you:

• Package: €62K to €68K gross/year (base salary of €52K–€57K + 20% annual profit sharing)
• Opportunity to invest in all Hexa portfolio startups at a (very) preferential rate
• Swile meal card
• 8 to 12 RTT days per year
• Flexible remote work policy (up to 2 days/week)
• Mobility budget: €500/year for green transportation (bike, metro, electric scooter)
• Health insurance with 50% coverage for you and your family
• 1% Holiday bonus
• MacBook laptop