Head of Recruiting - Hardware & Energy (Nevada Onsite)

K1 Industries; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Meaningful equity for early-stage role

Competitive compensation

Job summary

K1 Industries seeks a Head of Recruiting to build our recruiting function from the ground up. You will partner with the founding team, hiring managers, and external firms to translate business priorities into top hires, while staying closely aligned with engineering and operations in Nevada.

You will own strategy, external relationships, systems, and a recruiting team as demand grows, using data-driven approaches to scale hiring across technical and leadership roles.

Qualifications

• Built recruiting function from zero to one with concrete hires, systems, team, and results
• Experience recruiting specialized engineers for hardware or energy companies
• Quickly understands unfamiliar disciplines and asks informed questions
• Managed recruiting firms and executive search partnerships
• Hands-on recruiter with proven direct sourcing, offer negotiation, and closing hard-to-fill roles

Responsibilities

• Translate engineering, production, and commercial milestones into a prioritized hiring plan with leadership and Finance
• Personally source, assess, and close critical technical, operational, and leadership hires
• Build and develop a recruiting team as demand grows
• Own external search relationships, including firm selection, briefs, fees, candidate ownership, and performance reviews
• Build ATS, sourcing workflows, and reporting; track pipeline quality and recruiting spend
• Develop talent networks and relocate discussions with leadership

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Hardware/energy recruiting

Executive search management

Data-driven recruiting

Relocation willingness

Tools

Applicant tracking system

Sourcing automation tools

Job description

K1 Industries seeks a Head of Recruiting to build our recruiting function from the ground up. You will partner with the founding team, hiring managers, and external firms to translate business priorities into top hires, while staying closely aligned with engineering and operations in Nevada.

You will own strategy, external relationships, systems, and a recruiting team as demand grows, using data-driven approaches to scale hiring across technical and leadership roles.