Head of Talent
Job description
At Render, we’re building the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. Our mission is to eliminate the tradeoff between the power of hyperscalers and the simplicity of developer-friendly platforms—so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on their product, not infrastructure.
Unlike complex hyperscalers or ephemeral edge/serverless solutions, Render offers a developer-first experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, allowing teams to launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers. Whether you're building LLM-powered applications, scalable SaaS products, or async processing pipelines, Render empowers teams to move fast and scale confidently from MVP to millions of users.
Our platform is trusted by over 4.5 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In February 2026, we raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $257M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive—designed for the speed of modern AI development.
We’re a diverse and talented team that values craft, velocity, and user experience. If you’re excited to help shape the future of the intelligent cloud and empower developers everywhere, we’d love to hear from you.
Applying to Render
We're seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively. We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team.
We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each requirement listed.
Our interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience. We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time.
About the Role
As Head of Talent at Render, you'll own the hiring engine at one of the most pivotal moments in the company's growth. With ambitious hiring goals across EPD, GTM, and G&A, you'll be responsible not just for filling roles but for building the systems, team, and executive alignment that make hiring predictable, high-quality, and sustainable at scale.
This is a strategic leadership role with company-level accountability. You'll inherit a talented recruiting team and a set of strong foundational processes, and you'll be expected to evolve both — closing the gap between where our hiring function is today and where it needs to be to deliver on an ambitious multi-year growth plan. You'll partner closely with finance and executive leadership to drive workforce planning, set the hiring bar, and ensure that growth does not come at the cost of the talent density that makes Render exceptional.
What You'll Do
Set and execute a multi-year talent strategy that delivers hiring velocity and quality at scale.
Own workforce planning and forecasting in partnership with finance and executive leadership.
Build and evolve the recruiting systems, processes, and tooling that support predictable and proactive hiring.
Lead and develop a recruiting team of managers, ICs, and coordinators, establishing clear performance standards and a culture of high output and high craft.
Set and protect the hiring bar across all functions, ensuring calibration is consistent, debrief quality is high, and quality is never traded for speed.
Partner closely with functional leaders across EPD, GTM, and G&A to align on priorities and enable hiring managers.
Ensure hiring performance is measurable and visible to the recruiting team, to functional partners, and executive team .
Represent the talent function at the executive level with clarity, credibility, and a clear point of view on what the business needs from hiring to execute its ambitions.
What We're Looking For
10+ years of recruiting experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership role owning a recruiting function at a high-growth technology company.
Experience owning a large, complex hiring plan end to end — including workforce planning, capacity modeling, and executive alignment — at a company scaling from early to growth stage.
Strong analytical instincts: can build and use a capacity model, distinguish leading from lagging indicators, and design reporting that drives decisions rather than just documents outcomes.
A clear and operational philosophy on hiring bar — what exceptional talent looks like, how to calibrate a team around that standard, and how to protect it under pressure.
Proven ability to build and develop a recruiting team: setting goals, developing managers, maintaining engagement, and holding the team to high standards with care.
Exceptional stakeholder management and influence skills — comfortable partnering with finance and executive leadership, setting real expectations, and delivering hard news clearly.
Track record of building recruiting systems and processes that produce predictable, high-quality outcomes at scale
Nice-to-Haves
Experience hiring across multiple functions simultaneously (EPD, GTM, and G&A) with meaningfully different sourcing strategies for each.
Familiarity with Ashby or similar ATS platforms, and comfort building recruiting analytics in Google Sheets or similar tools.
Experience standing up or significantly evolving a recruiting operations function alongside the recruiting team itself.
A point of view on employer brand and candidate experience that is grounded in data, not just intuition.
Comfort operating in ambiguity and a demonstrated ability to make good decisions before all the information is in — while being honest with stakeholders about what you know and what you do not.
Prior experience at a developer tools, infrastructure, or cloud platform company, and familiarity with the technical talent market in that space.
If this role excites you but you don’t meet every single requirement, we’d still love to hear from you—your unique experience might be just what we need.
Benefits
This opportunity is also eligible for equity with early-exercise options and extended exercise windows.
4 weeks of paid vacation.
14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return.
Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent. FSAs and HSAs are available as well.
Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
Continuous learning benefits & related support.
Render is an equal-opportunity employer. We know that employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, product, and community to flourish. We make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional, and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
We encourage all who are interested to apply. We can't wait to hear from you!