Founding US Talent Partner

Nothing; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Nothing is building a US leadership presence from a standing start in San Francisco. You’ll own executive and senior searches, shaping the US team and advising the CEO and stakeholders on market strategy. This full-cycle role demands a strong SF network and a track record of closing top talent.

You will set up the US hiring operation, partner with global TA, and build relationships across engineering, product, design, sales, and GTM to attract world-class candidates.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years in recruiting with real SF Bay Area market experience.
• Experience hiring across technical and commercial functions.
• Strong network in SF tech and familiarity with comp norms.

Responsibilities

• Shape Nothing's US team and advise on senior searches for CEO and execs.
• Own full-cycle recruiting for SF executive and specialist roles.
• Convert passive talent into active candidates with Nothing's story.
• Build talent networks across SF’s tech and commercial scenes.
• Track market intel on comp, movement, and hiring trends.
• Set up US hiring operation tools and processes for a startup.
• Feed learnings to global TA team to optimize US strategy.

Skills

Executive recruiting

SF Bay Area

Leadership hiring

Full-cycle recruiting

Talent strategy

Job description

About Nothing

Nothing exists to make tech feel exciting again.

We're building a different kind of technology company, one that puts design, emotion, and human creativity at the heart of everything we do. From the way our products look and feel to how we communicate and show up in culture, we believe technology should make you feel something.

Founded in London in 2020, we've grown from idea to global challenger in just a few years. Backed by GV (Google Ventures), EQT Ventures, and C Ventures, and investors like Tony Fadell (iPod), Casey Neistat, and Kevin Lin (Twitch), we're now sold in 40+ markets with millions of users worldwide.

About The Team

Nothing's Talent Acquisition team is 12 people spread across London, Asia, and now for the first time the US. We don't fill seats. We find the people who'll define the next decade of personal technology, and we do it fast, because the giants we're up against aren't waiting. Right now we're building out US leadership across hardware, AI, design, and commercial functions from a standing start. You'll own that from day one: the SF patch, the exec searches, the tools, and the relationships that make it all work.

What You'll Do

• Shape how Nothing builds its US team, acting as talent advisor to the CEO, exec team, and US stakeholders on senior searches.
• Own full-cycle recruiting across exec and specialist roles in SF, from market mapping to offer close.
• Convert passive, world-class talent into active candidates by telling Nothing's story with a point of view that cuts through the noise.
• Build talent networks across SF's tech and commercial scene, spanning engineering, product, design, sales, and GTM, so people know Nothing before they're looking.
• Track real-time market intelligence on comp, talent movement, and competitor hiring, so Nothing stays ahead, not reactive.
• Set up the tools, processes, and rhythms a US hiring operation actually needs, built for a startup, not a legacy enterprise.
• Feed what you learn back to the global TA team, making Nothing smarter about the US market.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of recruiting experience, with real time in the SF Bay Area market and several years on senior and leadership searches.
• You know the SF tech ecosystem including the companies, the people, the comp norms, backed by a network you've built yourself.
• You've hired across technical and commercial functions and know a great engineering hire and a great GTM hire need different instincts.
• You own your pipeline end to end. You hunt, you build, you close, and you don't wait on inbound.
• You've built a hiring function before, not just worked within one, and you know what good looks like from day one.
• You handle confidential searches with discretion and can influence at the C-suite without losing the human touch that makes candidates say yes.
• You believe great recruiting doesn't feel like recruiting, and you build candidate experiences that prove it, whether it's a junior hire or a director search.

How We Work

• Location: San Francisco (Jackson Square office)
• Working Pattern: Full-time, in-office. We can work around personal needs where it makes sense, but being together is how we do our best work.
• Salary Range: $140,000 - $200,000