Head of Talent & People

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New York City, NY, USA
In-Office
190K-250K Annually
Senior level
Legal Tech
Finch upgrades your personal injury firm’s pre-litigation playbook with elite paralegals and next-generation AI tools.
The Role
Lead Finch’s talent acquisition and people function as its first Head of Talent & People. Own hiring strategy, recruiting across R&D and go-to-market, recruiting systems, AI-enabled tooling, funnel analytics, hiring-manager coaching, compensation bands, headcount planning, and employee lifecycle programs. The role is hands-on while managing recruiters and building a scalable people and culture foundation at a high-growth startup.
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About Finch

Our mission is to make justice radically more accessible to every American household.

We combine expert operators with purpose-built AI to automate the admin work of consumer law and put clients first by handling intake, claim opening, medical records, police reports, lien management, demands, and everything in between.

Since launching in April 2025, we’ve raised a $20M Series A backed by Sequoia, Redpoint, and the founders & CEOs of DoorDash, Ironclad, and Digits and are running pre-litigation for over 125 of the highest-volume personal injury firms across the country.

Explore life at Finch for more.

What you'll do

We're reaching an inflection point in scaling the platform, and our talent acquisition funnel sets how fast we grow.

We're looking for our first Head of Talent & People to scale our hiring engine, and build the people foundation that the company will run on.

  • Own talent acquisition end-to-end, including the hiring plan for an upcoming wave of growth.

  • Recruit hands-on as a player-coach, running searches yourself across R&D and GTM, adding to existing foundation today.

  • Help bring our existing hiring system to the next level, leveraging AI tooling that lets a small team do the work of a much larger one.

  • Run the function both on talent intuition and data: track funnel health, time to fill, pass-through rates and offer acceptance, and act on what they show.

  • Partner with and mentor hiring leaders across the company so every team runs a consistent, high-bar process.

  • Shape the headcount plan and compensation bands alongside Finance.

  • Own people and culture across the employee lifecycle so Finch stays a place where people do the best work of their careers.

What will make you successfulYou’ll likely thrive if you have
  • 8+ years across talent acquisition, including having built and led recruiting at a high-growth startup or scale-up.

  • You've built a talent function and its systems, and can point to the process, metrics and tooling you put in place and the numbers before and after.

  • You hold a high talent bar and act as a continual bar raiser, championing talent density and holding the line on quality even under pressure to fill roles fast.

  • Proven hiring across technical and go-to-market roles at volume.

  • You still recruit hands-on: you source, assess and close candidates yourself.

  • You've managed recruiters and coached hiring managers to run sharper, more consistent interviews.

  • You care deeply about culture and have helped shape it at a scaling company, whether through onboarding, performance or employee-experience programs.

  • You use AI and automation in your recruiting work today and have a view on where they help.

It’s a plus if you have
  • Senior or executive hiring experience.

  • Managed multiple hiring motions i.e. folks who’ve hired legal operators (paralegals, case managers) or high-volume operations roles in a regulated field.

  • Experience at an AI-native company, or at a company through both early stage and scale.

  • Experience leading or partnering closely with People Ops on onboarding, performance and the rest of the employee lifecycle.

What happens next

We run a human, efficient process. That generally includes:

  1. Intro: An initial conversation about your background, motivation, and the role.

    • Afterwards, a casual sync with our internal recruiter.

  2. Interview: A structured exercise to understand your approach to scaling an end-to-end hiring engine.

  3. Onsite: A visit to our NYC office to meet the team, explore the work together, and have lunch.

Skills Required

  • 8+ years of experience across talent acquisition
  • Built and led recruiting at a high-growth startup or scale-up
  • Built talent functions, systems, processes, metrics, and tooling
  • Experience recruiting technical and go-to-market roles at volume
  • Hands-on sourcing, candidate assessment, and closing experience
  • Experience managing recruiters and coaching hiring managers
  • Experience shaping culture at a scaling company through onboarding, performance, or employee-experience programs
  • Current use of AI and automation in recruiting
  • Senior or executive hiring experience
  • Experience managing multiple hiring motions, including legal operators or high-volume operations roles in a regulated field
  • Experience at an AI-native company or through both early-stage and scale phases
  • Experience leading or partnering closely with People Operations on onboarding, performance, and employee lifecycle programs

Finch Legal Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Finch Legal and has not been reviewed or approved by Finch Legal.

  • Healthcare Strength — Employer job postings repeatedly indicate 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage. Such comprehensive coverage is emphasized across multiple roles.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility — Many roles explicitly include equity alongside base salary. This signals a total-comp approach that offers upside participation.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Listings call out flexible or unlimited PTO. Time-off language stresses autonomy to take needed time.

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The Company
HQ: Kill Devil Hills, NC
Year Founded: 2024

What We Do

Finch upgrades your personal injury firm’s pre-litigation playbook with elite paralegals and next-generation AI tools so that you can get more done without changing how you work. We build a pre-litigation playbook around your firm’s process and integrate with your case management system, so there are no new tools to learn.

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