Head of Talent Acquisition

Mission

TAR's mission is to power intelligence for the world. We are building the world's first off-grid power plant for data centers powered by renewable technologies.

We firmly believe AI should be built in the US for the benefit of all people. For that, power must be fast, clean, and scalable. We are singularly focused on delivering GW-scale power faster than anyone has ever done, by rethinking every layer of the stack.

To deliver on this vision, TAR manufactures, deploys, and operates off-grid energy assets with a renewable backbone. We vertically integrate to solve every bottleneck, from racking systems to power electronics to dispatch algorithms to on-site construction.

Leave your mark by powering the future of civilisation-scale energy infrastructure.

We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply!

Company

We are a team of seasoned operators run by founders who previously scaled a company to over 80 people and $350M in annual sales. We know how to operate, and we move fast.

We are working directly with one of the largest compute providers to make our vision come true and plan to deploy 5GWs by 2028.

TAR is both a hardware and software company, we are building out massive, critical, physical infrastructure.

We operate on…

• High ownership. High Agency. Own project end-to-end. Great people don't need to be managed.
• Speed. We achieve great things on incredible timelines. We always push ourselves to go faster.

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• First principles. No ego. No hierarchy. Challenge every assumption.
• Passion. Solving the energy problem is one of the largest challenges that faces the world now and in the future. We put in long hours and hard work to solve this.

About the role

TAR builds fully islanded, behind-the-meter microgrids powering AI data centers in West Texas at record speed, and the constraint on how fast we build is talent. As Head of Talent, you own sourcing across the company, and you are the heart of our talent strategy. Most of our hiring is outbound and much of it is deeply technical (power-systems engineers, controls engineers, project and procurement leaders), so you partner closely with our founders and technical leaders to define the right profiles and then go find them.

This is a builder-doer role. You own the process, the pipeline, and the outreach yourself. There is no team to delegate to on day one; you are the heart of strategy and the primary doer at once. You move fast, you learn new domains quickly, and you can pitch TAR as well as a founder can.

Responsibilities

• Own outbound sourcing across every open role; personally build pipeline and run outreach.
• Partner with founders and functional leaders to define ideal-candidate profiles, especially for technical and leadership roles, and align on the bar.
• Run and improve the end-to-end recruiting process (intake, sourcing, screens, on-site, offer) in Ashby; run pipeline reviews; keep time-to-hire low.
• Own employer brand and the candidate story; pitch TAR compellingly to passive, senior candidates.
• Maintain compensation and equity benchmarks to guide offer design and close candidates.

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• Build the talent function over time: tooling, playbooks, and eventually the team.
• Coordinate closely with People & Operations on onboarding and start-date velocity.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in talent acquisition, technical, or executive recruiting, with hands-on sourcing.
• Proven outbound sourcing and closing of hard-to-fill technical and/or leadership roles.
• Ability to learn new technical domains fast and translate them into precise candidate profiles.
• Comfortable being the heart of strategy and the primary doer at once, with no team to delegate to on day one.
• Excellent written outreach and the ability to pitch a company like a founder.
• High agency, high ownership, fast.

Nice To Have

• Founding or early in-house recruiter at a hard-tech, energy, defense, or deep-tech startup.
• Experience hiring power-systems, controls, hardware, or infrastructure engineers.
• Built a recruiting function and team from scratch.
• Familiarity with Ashby.

Salary and Benefits

• Base salary: $100-150K
• Milestone bonus: 10-20% of base
• Competitive equity compensation
• Up to $15K relocation bonus
• Unlimited PTO
• Health, Dental, Vision insurance
• $1K monthly stipend for meals