Head of Talent Acquisition

Head of Talent Acquisition

Location: New York, NY, onsite 5 days per week

Role type: Full time

Reports to: President

Flowcode

Flowcode is the leading offline to online conversion platform, committed to building direct connections between brands and fans. By integrating data-driven design with the latest QR technology, we offer contactless connections that are privacy-compliant, ultra-fast, and designed with intention. Our products enable instant, seamless engagement between the physical and digital worlds.

This position is part of our Go-To-Market team, dedicated to serving enterprise clients within core audience segments. As part of this team, you'll contribute to initiatives that maintain our position as the preferred QR provider for over 70% of Fortune 500 companies.

The Role

Flowcode builds the infrastructure that turns real world touchpoints into measurable, actionable first party IDs, enabling F500 brands to personalize consumer experiences at scale.

One of Flowcode’s founding principles is “the product is the team, and the team is the product.” We treat hiring with the same level of rigor we apply to product development. We have an extremely high hiring bar (the “pinhole process”), which to date we have applied by brute force. Our CEO, President and our executive team each personally read resumes, sit on interview loops, and close candidates. It works. But it also means our hiring speed is capped by the calendars of the ten busiest people in the company, and our pipeline stops the moment one promising candidate appears.

We are not hiring a coordinator, a req-filler, or a "people partner who also does recruiting." We are hiring the person who owns the talent bar, the pipeline and the close. You are relentless in your proactive pursuit of top 1% talent, and you never consider the pipeline “good enough”. You treat every day as an opportunity to source the next generation of leaders for Flowcode, and you are consistently refining differentiated strategies to attract and retain elite talent.

What you'll own

- The talent bar: You define, in writing, what "top 1%" means for each function at Flowcode, with calibrated scorecards and interview questions — and you hold the line when a hiring manager, or anyone else at the company, including the executive team, wants an exception.

- An always-on pipeline: You do not just open requisitions when a seat empties. You have named, warm, mapped talent for our most critical roles at all times, including seats that are currently filled.

- Outbound and referral as the default: Job boards produce volume; direct sourcing and referrals produce our best people. You flip the mix and you own the referral engine.

- Velocity: You compress the distance between "we met someone exceptional" and "they signed" from weeks to days.

- Data enablement: You own every metric and SLA in the recruiting funnel, including time to hire, time to fill and offer acceptance rate.

- The close: You personally run the final mile on every senior hire: comp framing, competing offers, partner and relocation objections, start dates.

- Onboarding through to productivity. Your scoreboard does not stop at signature. You work cross functionally to ensure effective onboarding and a fast ramp to productivity.

- Agency strategy and spend: You minimize agency spend where possible, run the search-firm bench, and you drive blended cost per hire down.

- A defensible process: Pay ranges in every posting, structured and consistent interviews, clean records in Greenhouse, and hiring decisions we can stand behind.

What we are looking for

Must have:

- 7+ years in talent, including at least two years leading talent acquisition at a company between 50 and 500 people. You have recruited into both go-to-market and engineering.

- You have personally closed senior hires that other good companies also wanted. Not "managed a process" — personally closed.

- You run your funnel like a revenue pipeline — stage conversion, coverage ratios, source yield, cost per hire — and you can defend those numbers to an executive team that will read every one of them.

- You are AI-native in practice, not in vocabulary. You have built sourcing, screening or research workflows with AI tooling, and you can show us what they produced.

- You write and communicate clearly and effectively.

- You will be in our New York office. This is an in-person job at an in-person company.

Strong fit signals:

- You have competed against Google, Meta, OpenAI or a well-funded Series C for the same person and won on mission and slope rather than on cash.

- You have told a hiring manager “no” on their favorite candidate, stood by it, and been proven right.

- You have built a referral program that genuinely produced a quarter or more of total hires, rather than one that produced a Slack channel.

- You have recruited inside a company where the executive team is deeply involved in hiring and made that an advantage instead of a bottleneck.

- You have hired ahead of need — mapped and warmed a market months before the req existed.

Please do not apply if:

- Your strongest work product is a process diagram rather than a list of people you hired.

- You need a built-out employer brand function, a content team and a six-person pod before you can produce hires.

- You are looking for remote or hybrid.

- You measure yourself in reqs closed rather than in who is still excellent and growing two years later.

Three things you should know:

- Our executive team is intensely involved in hiring and is going to stay that way. You need to be the person who makes that a weapon rather than a constraint.

- You will be hands-on for at least two quarters — sourcing, screening, backup scheduling — before you get any headcount of your own. The team comes after proof and all leaders at Flowcode are expected to be player coaches.

- You are inheriting real gaps: scheduling drag, uneven scorecard discipline, and a pipeline that pauses when one candidate looks promising. You are responsible for closing those gaps and building a world class recruiting machine.

This is an in-office role at our beautiful office in Soho, NYC.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

A successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on the role, job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The current range for this role is $150-$190 performance bonus and equity.