About Phylo
Phylo is an applied research lab building agentic intelligence to accelerate discovery for every biomedical scientist. We believe AI agents will fundamentally transform how biomedical research is done. Our fast-growing team brings together researchers and engineers across AI and biology, commercializing the Biomni platform.
Our growing team brings together world class researchers and engineers across AI and biology. Backed by a $13.5M seed round led by a16z, Menlo Ventures and Anthropic, and advised by Nobel Prize laureate and pioneering biologists, Phylo is building the next generation of AI systems for the life sciences.
About the Role
We’re hiring our first in-house Head of Talent—a player-coach who will personally lead our most important searches while building the recruiting function around them.
You will own recruiting end to end across business, scientific, and engineering roles, from defining talent profiles and sourcing exceptional candidates through interviews, offers, and close. You’ll work directly with Phylo’s founders and hiring managers to build a rigorous, fast, and distinctly human hiring process.
This is a hands-on role. You should be excited to spend much of your time finding and engaging exceptional people—not simply managing agencies or administering a process. Over time, you will build the systems, employer brand, and team needed to support Phylo’s growth.
What you’ll do as a Head of Talent at Phylo:
Lead hiring end to end. Own full-cycle recruiting across business, scientific, and engineering roles—from defining talent profiles and building pipelines through interviews, offers, and close.
Build exceptional outbound pipelines. Develop creative sourcing strategies for senior and specialized roles, building trusted relationships across leading technology companies, research labs, biotech organizations, and academic institutions.
Build Phylo’s recruiting operating system. Establish role calibration, structured interview loops, clear rubrics, interviewer training, and reliable reporting. Own the ATS as the source of truth and continually improve speed, quality, and candidate experience.
Protect the bar and close exceptional people. Help hiring teams recognize capability beyond pedigree, maintain consistent standards, and communicate Phylo’s mission and opportunity credibly to candidates from different professional and technical backgrounds.
Scale our talent function thoughtfully. Build Phylo’s employer brand, use AI and automation to multiply your impact, and determine when additional recruiters, agencies, tools, or programs are needed as the company grows.
What We're Looking For:
A versatile, high-caliber recruiter. You have at least five years of experience and a track record of personally sourcing and closing exceptional business, scientific, and engineering talent in a high-bar, fast-moving environment.
A builder and operator. You have created recruiting processes, interview systems, tooling, or employer-brand programs from an early stage. Experience as an early or founding recruiter is especially valuable.
Excellent judgment and partnership skills. You recognize capability beyond credentials, learn unfamiliar domains quickly, and can challenge and calibrate hiring managers without adding unnecessary friction.
High agency and an AI-native approach. You take ownership from diagnosis through execution, communicate clearly, and use AI, automation, and modern recruiting tools to improve your reach, speed, and effectiveness.
Why Join Us?
Competitive salary and equity share in building the future of biomedical discovery
Full medical, dental, and vision coverage, including free therapy sessions and eyewear stipend
401(k) to help you build long-term financial security (US only)
Unlimited PTO to recharge when you need it (US only)
Lunch and snacks when you're in the office
Regular team offsites and company events
A culture of excellence and speed - we move fast, think big, and support each other every step of the way
Your work will directly impact our mission to 100X biomedical discoveries through AI
Skills Required
- At least 5 years of recruiting experience with personal sourcing and closing of business, scientific, and engineering talent
- Hands-on full-cycle recruiting ownership including defining talent profiles, interviewing, offers, and close
- Experience building recruiting processes, structured interview loops, rubrics, and ATS ownership
- Proven ability to source senior and specialized roles via creative outbound pipelines
- Experience using AI and automation or modern recruiting tools to scale impact
- Excellent judgment and ability to partner and calibrate with hiring managers
- Experience as an early-stage or founding recruiter
- Experience building employer brand or scaling a talent function
What We Do
Phylo is an applied research lab building agentic AI for biomedical scientists, creating an Integrated Biology Environment (IBE) that functions as an IDE for biology.
