Head of Talent

As the Head of Talent at Lumos, you have massive opportunity to shape the trajectory of our company. You’ll own the way we find, attract, and grow Alchemists — ensuring that every hire strengthens our culture and accelerates our mission. You’ll inherit a high-caliber team of recruiters and elevate them into a best-in-class function, while also building out our executive recruiting muscle. This is both a hands-on and high-impact role at the core of Lumos’ growth.

✨ Your Responsibilities

• Strategic & Scalable Hiring Engine: Drive a talent strategy that delivers world-class hires aligned to Lumos’ company north stars and long-term bets. Build and operationalize scalable processes, playbooks, and systems that make hiring predictable, data-driven, and repeatable — enabling the team to move fast while maintaining quality, consistency, and bar-raising outcomes across all levels.

• Team Development: Coach, mentor and hire your team. Set clear productivity benchmarks (req load, close rates, pipeline health) and build structured growth paths. Expand the team as Lumos scales, ensuring capacity, specialization, and structure keep pace with business needs.

• Executive Hiring: Own and drive executive searches end‑to‑end, partnering directly with the CEO and leadership team. Build a repeatable exec hiring engine that ensures we bring in senior leaders who raise the bar and align with Lumos’ mission and values.

• Diversity & Inclusion: Design and embed scalable strategies that make diversity & inclusion a core tenet of how we grow. Build diverse pipelines across all functions and levels, and ensure our hiring practices are equitable, structured, and bias‑mitigating.

• Consultative Partnership: Act as a true advisor to execs and hiring managers — not just an order‑taker. Influence workforce planning, role design, and talent strategy with insights grounded in data, market knowledge, and a deep understanding of Lumos’ business model. Confidently navigate compensation and equity conversations — helping candidates and leaders align on leveling, equity value, and long-term incentives with transparency and conviction

• Brand-Aligned Candidate Experience: Continuously elevate the candidate journey by auditing and optimizing every hiring touchpoint — from outreach to offer. Leverage surveys, funnel analytics, and process diagnostics to ensure a consistently exceptional experience that reflects Lumos’ values, strengthens our employer brand, and drives top-of-funnel conversion.

🙌 What We’re Looking For

• 8-12+ years of recruiting experience, including 4+ years of leadership experience at high-growth SaaS companies.

• Demonstrated ability to act as a consultative partner to executives and hiring managers, influencing strategy and providing data‑driven insights rather than simply executing requisitions.

• Strength in executive hiring, with a track record of successfully closing senior leadership roles.

• Strong analytical skills — able to define and track recruiting KPIs, forecast capacity, and use data to drive strategic decisions.

• Deep knowledge of modern recruiting tools, sourcing strategies, and employer branding best practices.

• Strong communicator and culture‑carrier who can collaborate cross‑functionally and inspire confidence across leadership, hiring managers, and candidates.

• Nice to have: Experience building talent programs (DEI, university, or employer branding) that scale with company growth.

⭐️ What We Value

We also care about whether you would be a good fit for Lumos based on the values and characteristics that define how we achieve outcomes, not just your resume.

Thank you for considering Lumos, we hope to hear from you! 🎉

💰 Pay Range

• $180,000 - $220,000 (Note that this range is a good faith estimate of likely pay for this role; upon hire, the pay may differ due to skill and/or level of experience)