As Head of Talent at Pilgrim, you will direct the hiring of engineers, scientists, and operators who will deploy critical biotechnology for the nation. You will own recruiting end to end across the company, defining roles, designing interview processes, identifying effective sourcing channels, assessing candidates, and onboarding new hires. Ultimately, there are people who should be working at Pilgrim but are not. Your job is to find them.

Source, screen, and assess candidates across engineering, science, operations, and other critical functions.

Build outbound and inbound recruiting channels. Proactively identify and engage exceptional candidates.

Map the technical communities and undiscovered networks where Pilgrim's best candidates come from, and build trusted paths into them.

Build relationships with labs, founders, operators, professors, and others who know where top talent is hiding.

Work closely with the founding team to define role requirements, translate them into search criteria, and design interview processes that connect candidates with the right internal experts.

Run the full process, from first contact through interviews, pilot, references, offer, and close.

Own the recruiting operating system including the ATS, internal support, external recruiters, sourcing workflows, interview processes, and pipeline reporting.

Build AI-enabled recruiting tools and workflows that expand sourcing reach and increase efficiency.

Head of Talent

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Company

Pilgrim

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