Head of Talent Acquisition

We're the creators of Highrise, which is now featured in the iOS App Store with 50 million users and rapidly growing. We're building bleeding-edge technology that enables both developers and amateurs to create immersive and accessible virtual experiences and directly deploy them to a platform with millions of users.

About the Role

We’re seeking an ambitious Head of Talent Acquisition who can help us double our recruitment velocity and execution. As an expert, you are expected to have the experience, self-confidence, and entrepreneurial drive to hit the ground running and begin delivering results within the first month.

If you expect to be coached every step of the way, this is not the job for you. But if you want the opportunity to take our current recruiting strategy, run with it, and improve it until it’s 10 times as powerful, then you will love this job. In this role, you are responsible for overseeing our entire talent strategy, building a lean but powerful team, and recruiting for our highest priority roles.

You’ll report directly to the co-founders and act as a partner to them on all things related to Talent Acquisition. Pocket Worlds has been named one of the best workplaces in Austin in 2024 and is laser-focused on achieving the mission of connecting the world through shared experiences. If you’re looking for an explosive career with outsized financial upsides, this is the place to be.

Ideally, we're looking for someone who sits in Austin, Texas, or is open to relocating as we're looking to open a HQ and move to a hybrid-like work model. This position will start as remote and will become hybrid once we open our first office in Austin.

Here are the skills and qualities we're looking for in our ideal candidate:

• 7+ years of experience in recruiting or sales for startups.

• Experience implementing various sourcing strategies leading to hiring the best industry talent at the fastest speed.

• Naturally competitive and not afraid to aggressively push your team to deliver exceptional results.

• Play an analytical role in identifying the best metrics to track success as a team.

• Experience leveraging AI tools to recruit.

• Expert in building strong pipelines and understanding the user (candidate) journey from end to end.

• Strong sense of ownership as a full-cycle recruiter and leader to the team.

• Have exceptional verbal and written communication skills in English.

• Strong analytical skills - you break down the recruitment projects in numbers.

• Strong bias towards action. You dont wait for something to get done later if it can get done right away.

• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to juggle many tasks at once.

• Receive and act on feedback extraordinarily fast.

• Interest in games and previous experience with Ashby ATS will be a plus.

• Experience working in an agency or commission model based pay is a plus.