Founding Talent Sourcer

HELP US TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTS IN THE WORLD!

• 🌍 Location: We are full-remote and globally distributed! Our current team is distributed between GMT-8 and GMT+2 so we currently only hire in these timezones.
• 🎤 Interview process: Read more about our interview process. https://posthog.com/handbook/people/hiring-process
• 🖥️ Team: Talent https://posthog.com/teams/people
• 💼 Manager:  Coua Phang https://posthog.com/community/profiles/30207
• 💰 Compensation: Please check our compensation calculator https://posthog.com/handbook/people/compensation.
• 🦔 Read more about how we hire https://posthog.com/blog/how-we-do-hiring-and-hr-at-posthog and how we think about Diversity & Inclusion https://posthog.com/handbook/company/diversity.

ABOUT POSTHOG

We're shipping every product that companies need https://posthog.com/handbook/why-does-posthog-exist to run their business from their first day, to the day they IPO, and beyond. The operating system for folks who build software.

We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort https://posthog.com/handbook/story. We've since shipped more than a dozen products https://posthog.com/products, including:

• A built-in data warehouse https://posthog.com/docs/data-warehouse, so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.
• A customer data platform https://posthog.com/docs/cdp, so they can send their data wherever they need with ease.
• PostHog AI https://posthog.com/ai, an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries.

Next on the roadmap are CRM, workflow, revenue analytics, and support products. When we say every product that companies need to run their business, we really mean it!

We Are

• Product-led. More than 100,000 companies have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit.
• Default alive https://paulgraham.com/aord.html. Revenue is growing 10% MoM on average, and we're very efficient. We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on.
• Well-funded. We've raised more than $100m from some of the world's top investors https://posthog.com/handbook/strategy/investors. We're set up for a long, ambitious journey.

We're focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and being as weird as possible https://posthog.com/deskhog.

THINGS WE CARE ABOUT

• Transparency: Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our public company handbook https://posthog.com/handbook. Internally, we share revenue, notes and slides from board meetings, and fundraising plans, so everyone has the context they need to make good decisions.
• Autonomy: We don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what's going to have the biggest impact on our customers, and what they find interesting and motivating to work on. Engineers lead product teams https://posthog.com/handbook/wide-company and make product decisions https://posthog.com/handbook/which-products. Teams are flexible and easy to change when needed.
• Shipping fast: Why not now? https://posthog.com/handbook/values#why-not-now We want to build a lot of products; we can't do that shipping at a normal pace. We've built the company around small teams – autonomous, highly-efficient groups of cracked engineers https://posthog.com/founders/cracked-manifesto who can outship much larger companies because they own their products end-to-end.
• Time for building: Nothing gets shipped in a meeting. We're a natively remote company. We default to async communication – PRs > Issues > Slack. Tuesdays and Thursdays are meeting-free days https://posthog.com/handbook/company/culture#were-on-the-makers-schedule, and we prioritize heads down building time over perfect coordination. This will be the most productive job you've ever had.
• Ambition: We want to solve big problems. We strongly believe that aiming for the best possible upside, and sometimes missing, is better than never trying. We're optimistic about what's possible and our ability to get there.
• Being weird: Weird means redesigning an already world-class website for the 5th time. It means shipping literally every product that relates to customer data. It means building an objectively unnecessary developer toy https://posthog.com/deskhog with dubious shareholder value. Doing weird stuff is a competitive advantage. And it's fun.

WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT HERE

• You’ll have a real impact - the people you find will shape our company’s future
• You’ll work with a collaborative, low-ego team https://posthog.com/teams/talent that values curiosity and kindness
• Room to grow, learn, and level up your recruiting career

JOB SUMMARY

Our Talent team has historically relied entirely on inbound candidates. Now, as we aim to hire 10× faster than before, we need additional support. That’s why we’re searching for our very first Founding Talent Sourcer - someone who thrives on the thrill of the search, gets a dopamine hit from a perfectly crafted outreach message, and believes that the right hire can drive exceptional results.

You’ll decode technical needs, translate hiring wish lists into realistic search strategies, and craft outreach messages that sound human, relevant, and worth responding to. You’ll build pipelines with intention, not shortcuts.

If sparking conversations that lead to game-changing hires excites you, this might be the role for you.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Scouting different networks, platforms, Slack communities, and hidden corners of the talent universe for amazing humans
• Building strong, diverse candidate pipelines that make talent partners and hiring team leads do a happy dance 🕺🏼
• Tracking, organizing, and optimizing sourcing efforts like the data-savvy pro you are
• Test and refine outbound strategies - messaging, channels, triggers, and tools (because curiosity is your fuel)

WHAT YOU WON'T BE DOING

❌ Interviewing (you will still have to do some basic prescreening)

❌ Creating new roles or job offers

❌ Managing candidates through the process - once a candidate “applies”, you'll hand off to a talent partner

❌ Any recruitment enhancements or process improvements

❌ Onboarding or people-related tasks

WHAT YOU'RE GREAT AT

• Have experience sourcing for technical, niche, and high-growth roles at SaaS companies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills - you can craft relevant, thoughtful and/or unhinged outreach
• A passion for finding people who aren’t actively looking - but should be
• Juggling multiple roles, priorities, and pipelines without breaking a sweat 😅
• Staying organized while thinking creatively
• Balancing speed with quality in high-demand, competitive talent markets

Bonus Points If You…

• Speak fluent Boolean and can tweak a search like you’re debugging code
• Get weirdly excited about response rates and pipeline metrics

If you love the hunt, enjoy working in a fast-moving environment, and 100% passionate about connecting great people with great opportunities, we’d love to meet you.

Apply now and help us find our next amazing teammate!

If you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you - we're happy to accommodate!