Head of Talent: Creative & Tech Hiring Lead

Story Inc; San Francisco (CA); In loco; USD 180.000 - 260.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Film/Video hiring

AI/ML hiring

Freelance crews

Deep-tech exposure

Creative work focus

Engineer trust

Descrizione del lavoro

Story Inc in San Francisco is seeking a Head of Talent to build the teams behind Story and Wizard, owning hiring, compensation and onboarding across creative and engineering roles. You’ll report to the CEO and unify talent strategy for both companies as Story grows into a full‑service creative agency and Wizard scales into its beta.

Responsibilities include building a single hiring plan with leadership, sourcing senior software engineers for Wizard, designing interview loops, training managers,

Competenze

• 7+ years in recruiting or talent leadership, including startup experience.
• Full-cycle hiring across creative and technical roles, including senior hires.
• Proven track record hiring senior software engineers in a competitive market.
• Hands-on experience designing compensation bands and equity programs, not just applying them.
• Working knowledge of California employment law and contracts.
• Experience building onboarding programs from scratch.
• Ability to manage hiring for multiple teams or entities concurrently, with follow‑through.

Mansioni

• Build and run one hiring plan with leadership across Story and Wizard engineering.
• Source and close creative and agency talent through portfolios, referrals, festivals, schools and your network.
• Source and close senior software engineers for Wizard across C++/Qt, media pipelines, AI/ML, real-time networking, web and QA.
• Design structured interview loops for creatives (portfolios and paid tests) and engineers (technical screens, coding, system design).
• Train hiring managers and engineering interviewers to assess well and decide quickly and fairly.
• Own offers, employment agreements and contractor terms with outside counsel for both companies.
• Design compensation philosophy, levels and pay bands for both creative and engineering roles, benchmarked to each market.
• Partner with Finance on headcount budget, Wizard’s equity program and pay transparency requirements.
• Build onboarding programs that get new hires productive in their first 30 days, from shoot-ready to shipping code.
• Manage ATS, HR tools and recruiting metrics, reporting on time-to-hire and offer acceptance for each company.
• Shape how Story and Wizard present themselves to candidates, from posts to careers pages.

Conoscenze

Hiring leadership

Full-cycle hiring

Senior engineers hiring

Compensation design

California law

Onboarding programs

Multi-team hiring

Descrizione del lavoro

Story Inc in San Francisco is seeking a Head of Talent to build the teams behind Story and Wizard, owning hiring, compensation and onboarding across creative and engineering roles. You’ll report to the CEO and unify talent strategy for both companies as Story grows into a full‑service creative agency and Wizard scales into its beta.

Responsibilities include building a single hiring plan with leadership, sourcing senior software engineers for Wizard, designing interview loops, training managers,