Best suited to talent acquisition professionals with founder-focused experience working in startup studios or accelerators.
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Original posting from Hexa via Ashby
Who we are
Hexa is a venture studio. Since 2011, we've built more than 60 companies, including 3 unicorns. Every year, our startup studio, Hexa Start, creates 12 companies from scratch, and our accelerator, Hexa Sprint, funds several dozen more. Each Start company begins with a CEO and a CTO we recruit ourselves: finding them is our core business.
That's where you come in. 👀
The role
Our partners bring the ideas. What turns an idea into a real company is the people who build it, so finding the right founders is Hexa's core business. That's your job: convincing aspiring founders to join us, walking them through a life-changing decision, and putting them in front of the right partner at the right time.
Our marketing team builds and nurtures the reservoir of future founders. You turn it into a pipeline for each open role (say, a CTO for a cybersecurity project with experience in LLM-built attacks), run the search with the partner leading the project, assess, and close. Laure, your peer, does the same for each company's first employees.
This is a senior individual contributor role. You'll need the business sense to read an idea and know what kind of founder it calls for, and a sharp eye for entrepreneurial profiles: you can tell a true entrepreneur from a strong manager, even when both look great on paper.
What you'll actually do
- Source, hands-on: inbound comes first, but you roll up your sleeves and reach out to everyone who looks on track to start something, before anyone else does,
- Build a pipeline for every open founder role within two weeks, from your own sourcing, the marketing reservoir and our scoring agents,
- Own the founder scorecard with the partners and fine-tune it every quarter against real hiring outcomes,
- Interview, assess and close demanding, sometimes hesitant candidates, alongside partners and our CTO,
- Tell marketing and community what each search is missing, down to the event it needs,
- Act as product owner of our recruiting stack (Ashby, sourcing tools, AI agents), and call in agencies when a search runs short.
What we're looking for
- 2 to 7 years in recruiting or talent acquisition, close to founders: fast-growing startup, VC fund, accelerator, studio, or founder and executive search
- You know what makes a strong founder, and you have examples rather than generalities
- A track record of closing senior or founder-level candidates, with numbers to back it
- You build trust fast, and you can challenge a candidate without putting them off
- You're as comfortable testing an agent or optimizing a workflow as building a relationship
- You have the standing to disagree with a partner, and the judgment to know when not to
- You are fluent in English and French
OUR RECRUITMENT PROCESS
- First call with Laure, Talent Partner
- Introduction call with our CEO, to deepdive on the role
- Case study on a live search: pipeline, gaps and your plan for the next two weeks
- Interviews with two partners
- References with hiring managers and candidates you've placed
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU:
- Package: €62K to €68K gross/year (base salary of €52K–€57K + 20% annual profit sharing)
- Opportunity to invest in all Hexa portfolio startups at a (very) preferential rate
- Swile meal card
- 8 to 12 RTT days per year
- Flexible remote work policy (up to 2 days/week)
- Mobility budget: €500/year for green transportation (bike, metro, electric scooter)
- Health insurance with 50% coverage for you and your family
- 1% Holiday bonus
- MacBook laptop
Source: Hexa careers (Ashby)