Head of Talent

We are looking for someone to lead our hiring function. This candidate will work closely with the executive team to understand Luma’s needs, define roles, project manage the hiring processes and make Luma the best hiring team on earth. This is not a normal recruiter role. We are looking for someone exceptionally strategic, with very, very strong operational skills and the pace and drive to run a function at Luma.

Responsibilities

• Obsess about who we should hire next and what we can do to recruit better

• Act as the central hiring leader rather than as a vendor to hiring managers. Get detailed and strategic about business needs and requirements of individual teams that will achieve it

• Design, own, and execute customized, full-cycle staffing plans, partnering closely with recruiters, hiring managers and teams to achieve the best results possible

• Create and implement creative sourcing strategies to get the best applicants from across the industry, tailored to the role (research vs. engineering vs. design etc.)

• Manage the candidate experience throughout the process to ensure an astonishing candidate experience. Even when we do not move forward, candidates should have a good experience

• Set up compensation strategies, build an efficient pipeline, and proper team planning to reach hiring targets

• Build an inclusive environment and diversify our candidate pool

• Make the entire Luma team better recruiters, including brand messaging, hiring manager intake calibration, candidate qualification, debrief decisions, candidate offer generation, and closing

• Help build and transmit a welcoming employer brand, promoting our employer value proposition and growing brand awareness

• Responsible for the strategy and execution of how we structure our roles and responsibilities in a way that is aligned with our current and future stages

What we're looking for

• You have 7+ years of in-house recruiting experience in high-growth companies.

• You have led fast scaling of companies while preserving hiring quality

• You are a self-starter who gets the job done

• You are unafraid and can dive into any new guild where we need to hire 

• You understand the types of roles and talent we are working with, and know the market we are competing with

• You have outstanding interpersonal skills to provide clarity on recruiting vision, strategy and status across the organization

• You have the vision and charisma to understand our mission, embed it into the hiring process and sell it to candidates

• You have a candidate-focused mentality and create an astonishing candidate experience

• Expert-level experience in choosing, setting up and using ATS

• You are organized, have a high attention to detail and can prioritize effectively 

• You think outside the box in where to find and how to attract exceptional talent 

• You have a sense of humor

Compensation

• The pay range for this position in California is $180,000 - $230,000yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, candidate location, and experience. We also offer competitive equity packages in the form of stock options and a comprehensive benefits plan. 

At Luma AI, we believe that multimodality is critical for intelligence. To go beyond language models and build more aware, capable and useful systems, the next step function change will come from vision. So, we are working on training and scaling up multimodal foundation models for systems that can see and understand, show and explain, and eventually interact with our world to effect change.

We will deploy these systems to make a new kind of intelligent creative partner that can imagine with us. Free and away from the pressure of being creative. It's for all of us whose imaginations have been constrained, who've had to channel vivid dreams through broken words, hoping others will see what we see in our mind's eye. A partner that can help us show — not just tell.

Dream Machine is an early step to building that. Try it here

Why you should join us:

• Luma is bringing together the best team in the world to achieve our goal, from researchers to engineers and designers to growth operators

• Luma is not just a lab - we are deeply product focused and our vision merging AI models and delightful products is unique in the industry

• We build. We ship. Our early p