Head of People & Talent (AI)

Location: In-office at the Los Angeles headquarters, United States

Salary: $75,000–$96,000 annually

Company

SocialNative.AI is a ten-year-old creator marketing intelligence company pivoting toward AI-powered creator marketing, with four issued US patents, a proprietary dataset of more than 1.8 million creator collaborations, and authenticated access to creator audiences across Meta and TikTok.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, sales, customer success, and operations, including passive-talent sourcing, outreach, referrals, communities, and unconventional channels.
• Partner directly with the CEO and department leads to define hiring profiles, close candidates, improve the employer brand, and deliver a respectful, well-informed candidate experience.
• Build structured interview, scorecard, KPI, goal-setting, performance-review, and performance-dashboard systems.
• Identify performance gaps and distinguish training, motivation, and role-fit issues in partnership with managers.
• Design 30-, 60-, and 90-day onboarding plans, connect new-hire milestones with future hiring decisions, and build HR infrastructure covering leveling, documentation, and compliance basics.
• Act as the point of contact for employee questions, concerns, and feedback while surfacing important themes to leadership.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience across recruiting and/or people operations, with demonstrated high-level performance and rapid growth.
• Strong talent-sourcing and candidate-closing ability, including experience winning candidates who had better-known alternatives.
• Strong judgment and calibration when assessing people and candidates.
• Experience building a hiring process, performance framework, or onboarding program from scratch.
• Entrepreneurial, proactive approach to identifying gaps, proposing solutions, and implementing them independently.
• Ability to move between strategic and operational work without losing momentum.
• Excellent written communication using direct, clear language without corporate jargon.
• Comfort with data, KPI dashboards, interpreting metrics, and identifying which measures matter.
• Ability to operate with urgency without compromising quality or candidate experience.

Nice to have

• Experience hiring for AI, data, or creator-economy companies.
• Familiarity with influencer marketing, martech, or creator platforms.
• Experience as an early people hire.
• Exposure to companies undergoing strategic pivots or meaningful transformation.

Culture & Benefits

• In-office work at the Los Angeles headquarters with direct access to leadership.
• Lean, fast-moving environment without middle management and with high visibility into work being built.
• Hands-on CEO and an expectation of ownership, initiative, and comfort building systems from the ground up.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan and unlimited vacation policy.