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Talent Acquisition Partner

Plug · Los Angeles · On-site

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About Plug

Enter your VIN or plate and get a real cash offer in minutes. No fees, free nationwide pickup, and secure payment. 1,500+ EV owners trust Plug. Backed by Lightspeed.

About the role

We're hiring a Talent Acquisition Partner to own full-lifecycle recruiting across engineering, Operations, and go-to-market. Over the last decade most tech companies split recruiting into parts sourcer, coordinator, recruiter, sometimes a separate closer. We built this role the other way. No sourcer. No coordinator. No separate closing team. You run the whole search, kickoff through offer accepted, including your own coordination supported by Ashby automation and AI tooling rather than by handoffs.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of full-lifecycle recruiting in a high-growth tech environment
  • A track record of owning searches intake through close , without a sourcer or coordinator carrying pieces of the process
  • Experience recruiting both technical and go-to-market roles — engineering or ML plus sales, ops, or marketing
  • Hands-on Ashby experience required. You can build and maintain workflows, interview plans, templates, and reporting, not just work inside someone else's setup
  • Strong sourcing chops: you find and engage passive candidates directly
  • Experience advising hiring managers on leveling, comp, and search strategy — with the confidence to disagree
More about this role

Team: People

Plug is an automotive fintech startup building the marketplace for electric vehicles. Consumers, dealers, and commercial partners trade in, sell, and auction used EVs through a platform built exclusively for electric — nothing adapted from legacy automotive.

Consumers get an instant cash offer in minutes, backed by data-driven pricing and battery state-of-health analysis, with pickup, payment, and title transfer handled end-to-end. Franchise and independent dealers across the U.S. bid in real time on that inventory. One platform: a fast, fair exit for sellers, and a dedicated sourcing channel for dealers.

Founded in 2023 and led by former Tesla executives, Plug has facilitated $100M in EV sales since launch and is backed by a $20M Series A from Lightspeed Venture Partners . We're building the most AI-native startup team in Los Angeles — operators, engineers, and ML researchers laying the transaction rails for the used EV market.

Real ownership of a core function at a company where hiring is the growth strategy.

A platform built exclusively for EVs, with nothing inherited from legacy automotive.

An AI-native company rethinking how work gets done — including how we...

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