Senior Talent Partner | Technical

Plasmidsaurus; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Plasmidsaurus is expanding its engineering team and is seeking a technically oriented Talent Partner to build a durable talent engine.

You will identify outstanding engineers, map the landscape, and cultivate relationships that endure beyond any single opening. Reporting to the Head of Talent, this hybrid role blends strategic sourcing with future partnerships, leveraging AI and creative research.

Responsibilities

• Identify outstanding engineers and build relationships that aren’t tied to a single opening.
• Map the talent landscape and create networks that compound over time.
• Partner with the VP of Engineering to define what exceptional looks like for Plasmidsaurus.
• Develop relationships across a broad network long before roles exist.
• Use automation, AI, and creative research methods to improve hiring outcomes.

Job description

Plasmidsaurus is on a mission to accelerate new cures and promote a healthier planet by unlocking a new level of productivity for scientists. Our sequencing services are used daily by thousands of innovators, including Nobel laureates, Fortune 100 pharma, and over 70,000 scientists.

We began by revolutionizing plasmid sequencing, making it exponentially cheaper and faster, with innovative sequencing technologies and a global network of laboratories that turn samples into answers in hours, not weeks.

Now we are expanding that same disruptive model across all of genomics. With the launch of our new RNA-seq service, we are taking a bold step toward our vision to sequence everything, providing scientists everywhere with faster, simpler, and more affordable access to the data that powers discovery.

Every team member at Plasmidsaurus plays a crucial role in driving the future of biotech research. Together, we are building the world’s most efficient sequencing engine that operates overnight, scales globally, and helps scientists make breakthroughs faster than ever before.

Role Overview

The best engineers rarely come through inbound applications. They come through relationships, nurtured networks, and they are attracted to exciting opportunities and teams with strong reputations and tons of potential.

Plasmidsaurus has built an exceptional engineering team through referrals, relationships, and highly selective hiring. There’s a ton to build here, and we're looking for a technically-oriented talent partner to help turn our unqiue advantages as a company and engineering team into a durable talent engine.

What You'll Do

In this role, you'll identify outstanding talent for our engineering team, build relationships that don’t hinge on a single req, and you’ll ensure Plasmidsaurus is known by the engineers we most want to hire. You'll partner closely our VP of Engineering to understand what great looks like for Plasmidsaurus, map the talent landscape, and create networks that compound over time.

Success isn't measured by outreach volume or pipeline size. It's measured by whether we know the most talented engineers, whether they take our call when the time is right, and whether those relationships become the foundation of future hires.

Partner with the VP of Engineering to understand what exceptional looks like and find people we would never meet through inbound applications, traditional recruiting channels, or existing networks.

Map the companies, teams, and communities producing exceptional engineers and build targeted strategies to reach them.

Expand Our Talent Network

Continuously grow Plasmidsaurus' reach into engineering communities, open source ecosystems, startup networks, and other places exceptional builders spend time.

Help make sure Plasmidsaurus is well known by the people we'd most want to hire, establish and share a strong value proposition for joining the team.

Build Relationships Before We Need Them

Develop relationships across a network of technical talent long before a specific role exists.

Stay connected through conversations, introductions, referrals, events, and communities so that when hiring needs emerge, we're building activating via relationships rather than starting from scratch.

Create Talent Advantages That Compound

Build systems, workflows, talent maps, and sourcing approaches that become more valuable over time.

Use automation, AI, and creative research methods to increase leverage, improve outcomes, and strengthen our understanding of the market.

Expected Outcomes

• We know exceptional engineers, not just applicants.
• Our Engineering team has access to talent that they would not have found through traditional recruiting channels.
• We can activate trusted relationships when critical hiring needs emerge.
• Our talent network generates introductions, referrals, insight, and future hiring opportunities.
• We have a strong understanding of where exceptional talent comes from, where it's going, and what it cares about.
• Engineering leaders use market insight to make better hiring decisions.
• Exceptional engineers know who we are, understand what we're building, and see Plasmidsaurus as a place to do meaningful work.
• Multiple hires can be traced back to relationships built months or years before an opening existed.
• Every search, conversation, referral, and hire strengthens our ability to attract exceptional talent in the future.

Speed and Scope

We expect this person will be a strong partner in hiring and building an increasingly impressive engineering team. We’re moving fast and we know that this job description won’t cover all the contributions you’ll make towards our growing team. This role will start out as a strategist focused on sourcing day one, given that our Engineering team needs less support with interviewing and offer processes, and more around our talent and sourcing strategy. We will look to this person as their strategic partner and expect you to grow naturally into increased partnership and full cycle support.

Reporting and Location

This position reports to our Head of Talent (remote) and work most closely with our Head of Engineering (in SF) and the Engineering team each day. It is a hybrid position, in-office in our South San Francisco headquarters Monday, Wednesday and Friday.