Talent Lead

Who we are

Percepta’s mission is to transform critical institutions with applied AI. We care that industries that power the world (e.g. healthcare, manufacturing, energy) benefit from frontier technology.

To make that happen, we embed with industry-leading customers to drive AI transformation. We bring together:

• Forward-deployed expertise in engineering, product, and research

• Mosaic, our in-house toolkit for rapidly deploying agentic workflows

• Strategic partnerships with Anthropic, McKinsey, AWS, companies within the General Catalyst portfolio, and more

Our team is a quickly growing group of Applied AI Engineers, Embedded Product Managers and Researchers motivated by diffusing the promise of AI into improvements we can feel in our day to day lives.

Percepta is a direct partnership with General Catalyst, a global transformation and investment company.

About the role

As Talent Lead, you’ll be both the architect and the operator of Percepta’s hiring engine. This is a true player-coach role: you’ll run searches yourself, close high-priority candidates, and also put in place the systems, processes, and bar-raising practices that will scale our team.

You’ll partner directly with the CEO and execs on hiring goals, headcount planning, and compensation strategy, while also rolling up your sleeves to ensure pipelines are full and candidates have an excellent experience. You’ll manage and coach early recruiters, define what “great” looks like in hiring at Percepta, and help embed that bar across the organization.

We take hiring seriously and it’s one of our strongest levers for building a company that changes how critical industries adopt AI. If you thrive in early-stage, fast-moving environments and love both closing the next critical hire and designing the systems that scale the next 50, we’d love to meet you.

What you’ll do

• Run full-cycle recruiting across engineering, AI/ML, product, operations, and leadership roles.

• Partner with leadership on hiring priorities, headcount planning, leveling, and compensation.

• Coach and scale the team and help everyone at Percepta raise their hiring bar.

• Own recruiting operations: track funnel health, forecast needs, and optimize hiring metrics

• Evolve candidate experience: design interview processes, reimagine how we assess, and refine our story in the market.

• Lay foundations for people systems: onboarding, contractor sourcing, and employer brand.

What we’re looking for

• 5–10 years in recruiting, talent strategy, or operations, ideally at a high-growth startup or top-tier hiring org.

• Hands-on recruiting strength: ability to source, pitch, and close world-class technical and business talent.

• Systems thinker who can design and rigorously measure hiring pipelines.

• Excellent communicator with strong judgment and taste in how we tell our story and present our bar.

• High ownership, low ego: excited to both lead strategy and personally run critical searches.

• Bias for action: proven ability to move fast, find creative paths, and deliver results under pressure.

We’re working against an incredibly ambitious mission. It won’t be easy, but it will likely be the most fulfilling work of your career. If this excites you, let's chat, even if you don't meet all of the qualifications above.