Valence

Valence

Lead Recruiter

New York, New York

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 25 days ago
Machine LearningNLPRecruitingLeadershipMentoring

About the role

  • This is a high-ownership IC role reporting to the VP of People & Talent, with responsibility not just for executing searches, but for shaping hiring strategy, calibrating talent bar, and influencing how we make talent decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

  • Own full-cycle recruiting across GTM (Sales, CS, Marketing) and technical roles as needed, from role definition through close
  • Partner with hiring managers and leadership to define role scope, calibrate level, and align on success criteria tied to business outcomes
  • Design and run structured, high-signal interview processes
  • drive calibration across interviewers to ensure consistent and high-quality hiring decisions
  • Build proactive, high-quality pipelines through sourcing, referrals, and network mapping, with a focus on reaching top-quartile talent
  • Help shape Valence's employer brand and deliver a high-touch, high-integrity candidate experience that reflects Valence's standards, regardless of outcome
  • Use funnel data (conversion rates, source quality, time-to-hire) to manage hiring performance and turn insight into action
  • Partner with leaders to turn what recruiting learns [about the talent market, comp, and competitors] into insight that sharpens decisions across the company
  • A clear, well-formed point of view on what great recruiting looks like - how to assess talent, design effective processes, and hold a high hiring bar
  • Genuine AI fluency: a real grasp on how AI changes recruiting, and a bias toward building it into the process

Requirements

  • 8+ years of full-cycle, in-house recruiting experience in high-growth B2B SaaS or AI environments, with exposure to both GTM and technical hiring
  • Experience influencing senior stakeholders, including challenging assumptions and driving alignment
  • Experience with Ashby (or a comparable ATS), with a commitment to maintaining clean systems and using them as a source of truth

Nice to have

  • Hands-on with AI sourcing/screening/ops tooling in your day-to-day workflow
  • Experience hiring the "consulting / professional-services → tech" profile, or recruiting in NYC's AI/tech market
  • Founding-recruiter DNA: you've stood up recruiting as an early or first dedicated hire
  • Exposure to employer-brand or talent-marketing work
  • Experience partnering on compensation benchmarking and levelling

Compensation

  • Competitive salary including base + bonuses

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision) from day one
  • Generous PTO, company-wide R&R shutdowns, and paid parental leave
  • Retirement plan support for US and global employees

Company info

  • About Valence
  • We're the only company pioneering leadership coaching for large enterprises in an AI-first way.
  • Our mission is to transform how the world's biggest companies approach learning and development, helping teams work better together through AI-powered personalization that adapts to individual goals and organizational culture using the latest advances in machine learning and natural language processing.
  • intensity to win, growth without limits, and a team that solves hard problems and celebrates big wins together
  • Learn more about us and meet our team here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGYZ59n_x-c
  • You'll operate as a thought partner to hiring managers and leadership, helping define role scope, prioritize hiring needs, and ensure we are consistently hiring people who raise the bar.

This listing is sourced directly from Valence's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.