Head of Talent Acquisition

Join Distyl as the Head of Talent Acquisition, where you will lead the function responsible for bringing AI-native talent to the company during a period of rapid growth. You will own the strategy, systems, and team that will allow Distyl to scale its headcount without sacrificing hiring quality or speed. This is a hands-on leadership role based in San Francisco, CA. You will lead a team of recruiters, sourcers, and coordinators, and partner closely with hiring managers and executive leadership on headcount planning. The ideal candidate will have deep talent acquisition leadership experience, fluency with AI, and the operational discipline to turn ambiguity into a repeatable system.

• Lead and grow a team of recruiters, sourcers, and coordinators, ensuring their performance, development, and growth.
• Design and run the sourcing strategy, employer brand, and candidate experience to attract top AI-native talent.
• Partner with leadership to translate growth plans into hiring capacity, sequencing, and budget, and oversee specialized searches.
• Comfortable With Senior Searches: You've personally led executive or highly specialized hiring, in addition to high-volume standard roles
• A Pulse on What's Emerging: You track how new roles and titles are forming across the AI industry, and can turn a fuzzy, not-yet-defined need into a real job description and leveling framework
• Hands-On With the Stack: You've owned an ATS and evaluated new sourcing and AI tools yourself, not just read reports about them
• Proven at High-Growth Scale: 8+ years building talent programs and leading recruiting teams, ideally at companies that grew fast enough to outgrow their own process at least once
• A Genuine Coach: You know how to bring a growing team up to speed quickly, with patience alongside pace, and you invest in people's development as much as their output
• AI-Fluent: You use AI tools in your own workflow and can translate that fluency into how a talent program sources, evaluates, and attracts AI-native candidates
• A Builder: You've built talent functions before, not just run ones someone else designed, and you're excited to define what "good" looks like here
• Experienced Across Borders: You've hired in multiple countries and helped a company open new markets, and you understand how hiring practices, comp, and compliance shift by geography