# Head of Talent at Pylon

- Company: Pylon
- What the company does: Backed by a16z.
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Palo Alto
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-07-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pylon/e96636e7-e79a-445a-b83a-a87dd376eddd
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/pylon-head-of-talent/

## About the role

We've outgrown an agency-and-contractor approach to hiring. It's expensive, it's fragmented, and it doesn't compound. We need someone to build Pylon's talent function as a real, owned, in-house engine: one that consistently lands exceptional engineers and operators, faster and cheaper than the market, and makes Pylon a place those people never want to leave.

## What they're looking for

- You've built or substantially scaled an in-house talent function at a high-growth startup (ideally somewhere between seed and Series C), and you've done it for technical, hard-to-fill engineering roles in a competitive market
- You are high agency and a player-coach. You can personally source and close a brilliant, hard-to-get engineer and design the process that lets ten other people do it. You don't wait for a system to exist, you build it
- You think from first principles and you're contrarian-and-correct. You have strong opinions about hiring, you're right more than you're wrong, and you'll push back on leadership when you should
- You can sell a hard mission. You make ambitious people want to take a risk, and you tell Pylon's story in a way that resonates with the best
- You are data-driven about pipeline, conversion, comp, and headcount, comfortable owning the numbers in a board and investor context
- You care about culture and retention as much as req-filling. You measure success in great people who stay and do their best work, not just offers signed

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