Drive Capital is a venture capital firm in Columbus that invests in world-class founders building the next generation of market-defining companies.
About the role
As a Talent Partner, you will run concurrent searches for Drive portfolio companies. Your roots are in technical recruiting, but your range is wide: one week you might be sourcing an AI/ML researcher for a robotics company or a founding full-stack engineer for an AI startup, and the next an enterprise account executive, a founding talent acquisition lead, or a growth marketer. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5–8 years of full-cycle recruiting, with experience both in-house at a high-growth company and at an agency, search firm, or VC talent team
- A strong technical recruiting foundation, ideally at venture-backed startups, plus the range to recruit for go-to-market, G&A, and operations roles
- A sourcing-first mindset. You are energized by outbound, you build pipelines from nothing, and your outreach gets responses from people who are not looking
- A track record of closing hard-to-fill roles, such as senior or founding engineers, specialized AI/ML or robotics talent, or senior business leaders
- Hands-on fluency with AI. You already use tools like Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor in your daily work, and you have built at least one workflow, automation, or agent that changed how you recruit
- A team player. You enjoy partnering on a search, share credit easily, and have a high bar for performance and output
More about this role
Drive Capital backs the next generation of great technology companies built outside of Silicon Valley. Founded in 2013 by two former Sequoia Capital investors, we manage $3 billion in assets and have invested in more than 150 companies across the US and Canada, including Duolingo, Root Insurance, VAST Data, Path Robotics, and Alpaca. Our founders lean on us for more than capital. We help build their teams and establish the foundation for operational excellence.
People are the core of our investment strategy. Drive Talent is the team that helps our founders hire the people who define their companies: founding engineers, AI/ML and robotics engineers, first product leaders, and the go-to-market and operating leaders who scale the business.
We run real searches, not referral lists. Every search is outbound: we have no inbound applicant flow, so every candidate we present is someone we found, engaged, and earned. We partner directly with founders, CXOs, and hiring managers, own each search from intake through close, and stand behind the quality of every candidate we put forward.
We are a small, experimental, and highly collaborative team. Everyone uses AI to work faster and rethink how...
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