Founder Talent Acquistion

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance with family coverage

8-12 RTT days per year

Flexible remote work policy (up to 2d/

Mobility budget €500/year

Job summary

Hexa is seeking a senior recruiter to identify and attract outstanding founders for our portfolio. You will evaluate entrepreneurial potential, manage founder-level candidate pipelines, and partner with the CEO, CTO and partners to close hires who fit our venture-building model.

The role blends hands-on sourcing with strategic assessment, requiring fluency in English and French, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to navigate fast-growing startup environments.

Qualifications

• 2 to 7 years in recruiting or talent acquisition close to founders.
• Track record of closing senior or founder-level candidates with measurable results.
• Ability to build trust quickly and challenge candidates constructively.
• Fluent in English and French.

Responsibilities

• Source, hands-on: inbound comes first, but you reach out to potential founders early.
• Build a pipeline for each founder role within two weeks using multiple sources.
• Own the founder scorecard with partners and refine it quarterly.
• Interview, assess and close demanding candidates alongside partners and CTO.
• Inform marketing/community about gaps and what events are needed.
• Act as product owner of the recruiting stack and coordinate external agencies when needed.

Skills

Founders recruiting

Closing senior candidates

English-French fluency

Stakeholder management

Networking & relationship building

Tools

Ashby

Sourcing tools

AI agents

Job description

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.

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
• 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