Startup Talent Partner & People Builder

Pogo Technologies, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Pogo Technologies, Inc. is hiring its first Talent Partner to help build a scalable People function as we scale. You will own recruiting across engineering, design, GTM, and other business functions, partnering with hiring managers to define roles and interview processes.

This role blends recruiting with PeopleOps: you will drive onboarding, performance reviews, employee experience, and early-stage People programs, while building systems and pipelines to support growth.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of full-cycle recruiting experience.
• Recruiting across multiple functions including engineering, design, GTM, and other business roles.
• Strong communication; able to partner with hiring managers and represent the company well.
• Highly organized with ability to build systems where none exist.
• Excited to help build a People function from an early stage in a startup.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting across all functions.
• Partner with hiring managers to define roles, profiles, and interview processes.
• Build sourcing strategies and pipelines for recurring roles.
• Conduct initial interviews and manage candidate experience through offer and close.
• Build and improve recruiting systems, workflows, and metrics.
• Own onboarding, performance reviews, employee experience, offsites, and internal HR policies.
• Develop programs like co-ops/internships and new-grad recruiting over time.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Communication

Organization

Startup recruiting

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Pogo Technologies, Inc. is hiring its first Talent Partner to help build a scalable People function as we scale. You will own recruiting across engineering, design, GTM, and other business functions, partnering with hiring managers to define roles and interview processes.

This role blends recruiting with PeopleOps: you will drive onboarding, performance reviews, employee experience, and early-stage People programs, while building systems and pipelines to support growth.