Talent Acquisition Lead

What you’ll do

This is a builder role in talent. You're not inheriting a mature function - you're shaping one.

You'll own engineering hiring end to end - pipeline, process, candidate experience, and close. You'll build the systems and tooling that make hiring scalable. And you'll work with engineering leaders to keep the bar high as we grow.

We talk a lot internally about Plain being a place people graduate from. Future founders meeting their co-founders here. Leavers trying to pull their ex Plain teammates to their next company. Genuine friendships built across the team. A team so good, that every tech recruiter has Plain high on their sourcing list.

That's what we're building. This role is how.

This is a great fit if you…

• Have strong opinions about what great hiring looks like and the conviction to push for it.
• Have owned full-cycle recruiting across product engineering, ML/AI, infrastructure, and beyond - to an exceptional bar.
• Can identify engineers who move fast with AI and still think clearly without it.
• Know how to build pipeline - whether that's a referral flywheel, a strong employer brand, a well-run outbound motion, or a mix of the three
• Get excited about process and tooling, not just people - you build systems that make hiring scalable.
• Can run multiple searches at pace without the bar or experience slipping.
• Partner closely with engineering leadership - you're an extension of the team, not a service function.
• Are comfortable rolling up your sleeves beyond tech hiring - Talent Ops, People Ops, GTM hiring - whatever the company needs.

This won’t be the right role if you…

• Treat hiring as a numbers game - we'd rather wait for the right person than move fast for the wrong one
• Are looking for a well-defined, mature talent function to step into - there's real infrastructure to build here and you should be excited by that…