Principal Talent Partner

Role Summary

We're hiring a Principal Talent Partner to lead hiring for our most senior and business-critical roles, including executive leadership, VP-level leaders, and principal-level individual contributor engineers.

This role is designed for a recruiter who thrives in high-stakes, high-touch environments - someone who can build deep trust with candidates, partner closely with C-Suite, and personally close complex offers. We do not use external recruiting agencies; this role replaces them.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruiting for:
• Executive and VP-level leadership roles
• Principal-level and staff-level IC engineers in highly technical domains
• Partner directly with the CEO, founders, and senior leaders on search strategy, role definition, and candidate calibration
• Deliver an exceptional candidate experience from first conversation through offer acceptance
• Act as the primary closer for high-impact hires, managing:
• Competing offers
• Equity-heavy compensation discussions
• Relocation, timing, and family considerations
• Build and maintain long-term relationships with senior technical and leadership talent, including passive candidates
• Design interview processes that are rigorous but efficient
• Translate complex technical, organizational, and business context into compelling narratives for candidates
• Provide real-time market insight and honest feedback to leadership throughout the hiring process
• Uphold discretion, professionalism, and strong judgment in all candidate interactions

Qualifications

• 8+ years of recruiting experience, including senior-level or executive hiring
• Experience in deep tech, hardware, infrastructure, or highly technical environments
• Proven ability to close senior candidates in competitive markets without agency support
• Exceptional judgment, emotional intelligence, and executive presence
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity in an early-stage environment
• High attention to detail, confidentiality, and candidate care
• Clear communicator who can translate complex technical and business contexts to candidates

Bonus Qualifications

• In-house experience at Series A-C startups
• Experience recruiting in niche or emerging technical domains
• Comfort influencing leveling, scope, and compensation strategy

Please note: This role requires working on-site 5 days a week. We do not offer hybrid or remote options.

Salary

$180,000-210,000/annual

Candidate Confidentiality & Information Protection

As part of our commitment to protecting confidential and proprietary information, candidates should not disclose or provide Amperesand with any confidential, proprietary, or trade secret information belonging to a current or former employer or any other third party during the application or interview process.

Please do not submit or present employer-owned source code, schematics, designs, technical documentation, internal presentations, customer information, prototypes, or other confidential materials. Candidates should discuss their experience and accomplishments at an appropriate level and use only information and materials they are authorized to share.

Pay Disclosure & Benefits

• Compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law.
• The benefits outlined below apply exclusively to employees located in the United States.

• Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and their dependents, effective from the start of hire
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k retirement savings plan through Empower
• Employees receive paid time off (PTO), paid sick days, and paid company holidays
• Commuter Benefits
• 100% paid maternal leave (12 weeks) and paternal leave (6 weeks)

Singapore-based employees receive benefits in accordance with local government provisions.