Principal Talent Partner

Amperesand, Inc.; Reno, San Francisco (NV, CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Incentive stock options

Medical, vision and dental benefits

401k retirement

Paid PTO and holidays

Maternal/paternal leave

Job summary

Amperesand, Inc. is hiring a Principal Talent Partner to lead hiring for our most senior and business-critical roles, including executive leadership and principal-level engineers.

You will partner with the CEO and senior leaders, build trusted relationships, and own the search from strategy to close in a high-stakes, on-site environment. The role requires 8+ years of recruiting experience in deep tech, with a track record of closing senior candidates without agencies.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of recruiting experience, including senior-level or executive hiring.
• Experience in deep tech, hardware, infrastructure, or highly technical environments.
• Proven ability to close senior candidates in competitive markets without agency support.
• Exceptional judgment and executive presence.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end executive and senior leadership recruiting.
• Partner with CEO and founders on strategy and role definition.
• Deliver a superior candidate experience from first contact to offer.
• Close high-impact hires, including equity and relocation considerations.

Skills

Executive recruiting

Deep tech recruiting

Close high-level candidates

Executive presence

Communication

Confidentiality

Ambiguity handling

Job description

Company Overview

Amperesand is reinventing how the world powers its most critical systems.

We are facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity for infrastructure disruption. Electricity demand is skyrocketing, driven by AI factories, electric vehicles, and modern industrial growth. Energy supply is shifting to incorporate a more diverse mix of resources – including solar, gas, and batteries – at a massive scale.

And yet the power infrastructure behind our latest mega-projects hasn’t meaningfully changed in nearly 100 years. Supply chains for today’s infrastructure equipment can’t match the pace and sophistication of critical energy projects. Amperesand is building hardware and software that rewrites this broken power infrastructure playbook to support a new era of energy abundance.

We’ve built a new class of intelligent, software-defined power infrastructure products leveraging a decade of advanced medium voltage Solid State Transformer research that’s now ready for commercial deployment.

Our products and solutions go far beyond the capabilities of traditional electrical equipment. We make power systems that are faster to deploy, dramatically smaller and more efficient, and capable of supporting modern, dynamic energy needs for tomorrow’s most demanding energy consumers.

Scalable in-house advanced manufacturing capability is our foundation for meeting timeline and quality expectation to serve infrastructure customers around the world.

Amperesand is led by breakthrough energy hardware development veterans and funded by top tier investors who share our vision of building a category-defining energy technology company.

With hubs in San Francisco, Reno, and Singapore, our global team is laser focused on building foundational technology to solve the most pressing problems in power infrastructure at scale.

Join us in building the power foundation of the future!

Role Summary

We’rehiring a Principal Talent Partner to lead hiring for our most senior and business-critical roles, including executive leadership, VP-level leaders, and principal-level individual contributor engineers .

This role is designed for a recruiter who thrives in high-stakes, high-touch environments - someone who can build deep trust with candidates, partner closely with C-Suite, and personally close complex offers. We do not use external recruiting agencies; this role replaces them.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end recruiting for:
• Executive and VP-level leadership roles
• Principal-level and staff-level IC engineers in highly technical domains
• Partner directly with the CEO, founders, and senior leaders on search strategy, role definition, and candidate calibration
• Deliver an exceptional candidate experience from first conversation through offer acceptance
• Act as the primary closer for high-impact hires, managing:
• Competing offers
• Equity-heavy compensation discussions
• Relocation, timing, and family considerations
• Build andmaintainlong-term relationships with senior technical and leadership talent, including passive candidates
• Design interview processes that are rigorous but efficient
• Translate complex technical, organizational, and business context into compelling narratives for candidates
• Provide real-time market insight and honest feedback to leadership throughout the hiring process
• Uphold discretion, professionalism, and strong judgment in all candidate interactions

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of recruiting experience, including senior-level or executive hiring
• Experience in deep tech, hardware, infrastructure, or highly technical environments
• Proven ability to close senior candidates in competitive markets without agency support
• Exceptional judgment, emotional intelligence, and executive presence
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity in an early-stage environment
• High attention to detail, confidentiality, and candidate care
• Clear communicator who can translate complex technical and business contexts to candidates

Bonus Qualifications:

• In-house experience at Series A-C startups
• Experience recruiting in niche or emerging technical domains
• Comfort influencing leveling, scope, and compensation strategy

Please note: This role requires working on-site 5 days a week. We do not offer hybrid or remote options.

Candidate Confidentiality & Information Protection

As part of our commitment to protecting confidential and proprietary information, candidates should not disclose or provide Amperesand with any confidential, proprietary, or trade secret information belonging to a current or former employer or any other third party during the application or interview process.

Please do not submit or present employer-owned source code, schematics, designs, technical documentation, internal presentations, customer information, prototypes, or other confidential materials. Candidates should discuss their experience and accomplishments at an appropriate level and use only information and materials they are authorized to share.

Compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law.

The benefits outlined below apply exclusively to employees located in the United States.

• Competitive Salary +Incentive Stock Options
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and their dependents, effective from the start of hire
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k retirement savings plan through Empower
• Employees receive paid time off (PTO), paid sick days, and paid company holidays
• 100% paid maternal leave (12 weeks) and paternal leave (6 weeks)

Singapore-based employees receive benefits in accordance with local government provisions.

Amperesand is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Amperesand is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.