Talent Lead

Fluidstack; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 251,000 - 311,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Generous PTO policy

Retirement/pension plan

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking an experienced Senior Talent Acquisition Lead to own hiring strategy and execution for a critical business unit. You will mentor TA Partners, Sourcers, and Coordinators while forecasting headcount with senior managers.

You will design fast, high-quality recruitment processes, measure pipeline health, and drive improvements to achieve strong offer acceptance. This role blends hands-on recruiting with strategic leadership in Seattle.

Qualifications

• Built and ran hiring for a specialized, high-growth unit with rapid headcount expansion.
• Leads a team, handles hard searches, and remains accountable.
• Managed 3–4 annual performance cycles from goal-setting through calibration.
• Maps talent landscapes to forecast hiring needs and avoids starting critical roles from zero.

Responsibilities

• Own hiring strategy and delivery plan for a Fluidstack business unit.
• Lead and mentor TA Partners, Sourcers, and Coordinators across units.
• Forecast headcount with senior hiring managers and align to business goals.
• Design fast but quality hiring processes to achieve high offer-acceptance.
• Own hiring metrics and build recruiting infrastructure, ATS workflows and calibration.

Skills

Hiring strategy

Team leadership

Hard-search execution

Performance management

Data-driven recruiting

Tools

ATS / Applicant Tracking System

Job description

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

How We Operate

• Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.
• Insane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• Reason from first principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.
• Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Deploy AI across the entire funnel. Use the latest models in every part of talent ops to find the best people in the world faster than any team has before. You won't bolt AI onto old processes; you'll rebuild recruiting around it.
• Treat talent as the critical path. Every role we can't fill slows the whole company down. We need to figure out how to move faster than everyone else in market without ever dropping the bar; one wrong hire costs more than a slow one.
• Build a brand the best want to join. Make Fluidstack a name top talent seeks out, not one we have to chase. You'll shape how the world's best engineers and operators hear about us, and why they say yes.

Role Scope

• Own hiring strategy, execution, and tracking for a critical Fluidstack business unit, building the annual delivery plan while staying hands-on and closing critical searches yourself.
• Lead, scale, and mentor a team of TA Partners, Sourcers, and Coordinators across multiple business units and technical domains, setting clear direction and performance accountability.
• Partner directly with senior hiring managers to forecast headcount, map talent needs, and align hiring strategy to business objectives.
• Design hiring processes that balance speed with quality, driving recruitment for hard-to-fill, specialized roles to high offer-acceptance rates.
• Own hiring metrics, pipeline health, time-to-fill, conversion, offer acceptance, and build the recruiting infrastructure, ATS workflows, interview rubrics, and calibration, that keeps the whole funnel improving.

What We're Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.

• You've built and run hiring for a specialized, high-growth business unit, ramping headcount fast without dropping the bar.
• You lead a team and set strategy but stay in the work. You take the hard searches, model great execution, and don't delegate your way out of accountability.
• You've managed people through 3 to 4 full annual performance review cycles, from goal-setting through calibration and delivery, and you use that rhythm to hold your own team accountable.
• You know the difference between competent and exceptional and won't compromise on it, for your team's hires or your own. Every hire raises the average.
• You build for the year but can lead quick pivots. You anticipate hiring needs and map talent landscapes so your team never starts a critical role from zero.
• You measure what matters, pipeline conversion, source quality, time-to-hire, and use it to manage performance and make decisions.
• You give clear, honest feedback and build trust by being straight with your team, not easy on them.
• Bonus: Recruiting in specialized or infrastructure-heavy markets (data centers, construction, deep technical engineering). Scaling a TA function through rapid headcount growth. Immigration and global mobility coordination. Employer brand building.

You will receive a confirmation email once your application has successfully been accepted. If there is an error with your submission and you did not receive a confirmation email, please email [e-mail] with your resume/CV, the role you've applied for, and the date you submitted your application-- someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
• Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.

Total compensation may also include equity in the form of restricted stock units.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Compensation Range: $251K - $311K