Job Description

Base pay range

$150,000.00/yr - $400,000.00/yr

About the Role

Were looking for a Talent Principal to join our team. Youll work directly with founders, hiring managers, and internal team members to drive searches end-toend, build deep relationships, and deliver a worldclass candidate experience. This is a role for someone who wants to build. Youll not only manage searches but also help shape the systems, processes, and brand that define how Amya operates as a talent agency. Youll gain exposure to toptier founders, and investors, learning the inner workings of earlystage company building.

What Youll Do

• Partner with founders and hiring teams across sectors like AI, fintech, consumer, media & entertainment, and frontier tech
• Own fullcycle recruiting from initial calibration and sourcing through client management, closing, and posthire advisory
• Build sourcing strategies that surface technical and commercial talent capable of driving categorydefining impact
• Develop repeatable systems, data frameworks, and search processes that make Amya faster, sharper, and more predictable
• Contribute to Amyas brand and community through events, content, founder partnerships, and storytelling
• Act as a trusted thought partner to clients on hiring strategy, organizational design, compensation benchmarking, and talent quality

Who You Are

• Have 14 years of experience recruiting for startups or highgrowth teams, sourcing technical or gotomarket talent, or driving outbound sales
• Have thrived in fastmoving, highaccountability environments whether in a startup or recruiting agency setting
• Are a top performer who measures success through tangible output and have numbers to
• Take pride in hard work you move with startup intensity and are energized by high volume, highvelocity search work
• Care deeply about brand, aesthetics, and the craft of your work
• Understand technical and business nuance you can speak credibly with both engineers and founders about what great looks like
• Think like a researcher you experiment, analyze patterns, and constantly refine how you search to get sharper results
• Operate with autonomy and bias for action, but know when to pull in others for feedback and collaboration
• Bring experience in technical or executive search
• Have worked closely with earlystage startups or venturebacked founders
• Are curious about emerging technologies (AI, automation, infrastructure, productled growth, etc.) and their impact on talent
• Have aspirations to be a founder, investor, or partner yourself one day

Why Join Amya

• At Amya, youll be part of a small, hightrust team where excellence compounds quickly. We operate with the pace and mindset of the startups we serve iterating fast, learning from data, and holding ourselves to elite standards of performance and integrity.
• Youll have direct access to some of the most ambitious founders and investors in the startup ecosystem, and your work will shape how the next generation of startups scale their most important asset: their people.
• We invest heavily in the growth of our team through mentorship, exposure to founders and VCs, and the ability to own large, impactful mandates early in your career.

Compensation

• This role is eligible to be performed remotely within the United States. The anticipated OnTarget Earnings (OTE) range for this role is $150,000 $400,000 , depending on experience and seniority. Actual compensation may vary based on skills and qualifications.

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Fulltime

Job function

• Sales, Business Development, and Human Resources

Industries

• Staffing and Recruiting

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