Role overview

Halter is seeking its first VP of Talent to lead the company’s hiring strategy as it scales toward thousands of employees by 2028. The company develops technology that enables farmers and graziers to adopt more productive and sustainable grazing practices. This is a foundational leadership role that combines strategic vision with hands-on execution across all levels of recruitment.

Key responsibilities

Develop and execute Halter’s complete talent strategy, covering early-career hiring, company-wide recruitment, and executive search across multiple geographies including Denver, Buenos Aires, Taranaki, and Auckland.
Lead a talent team of 15+ people, building a high-performing culture through mentorship, coaching, and continuous operational improvement while developing managers to support future scaling.
Design and implement scalable talent processes from sourcing through offer delivery that maintain both speed and quality across all candidate levels.
Build organization-wide reporting frameworks that translate hiring data into actionable insights for workforce planning and sourcing strategy decisions.
Partner with technology leaders to architect a scalable talent ecosystem and leverage AI to automate repetitive work, freeing the team to focus on relationship-building and judgment calls.
Serve as a strategic partner to the executive team, shaping hiring strategy and workforce decisions rather than simply executing them.
Contribute to company-wide people strategy as a member of the People leadership team.

Requirements

Proven experience either as a VP, Director, or Chief People Officer leading talent or people functions through hyper-growth, or as a Sales, Marketing, or General Manager who has built and led high-performing teams with strong commercial instincts.
Demonstrated ability to manage managers and build high-performing organizations of 30 or more people.
Strong data literacy with the ability to build and interrogate your own reporting rather than relying on pre-built dashboards.
Track record of designing high-volume, scalable processes that maintain candidate experience and quality at scale.
Comfort with AI and modern tools as strategic levers for operational change, not as checkbox implementations.
Strong executive communication skills to distil complex data into clear narratives for senior stakeholders.
Commercial mindset that treats talent as a business growth function and operates with autonomy while knowing when to escalate decisions.

What makes this role worth considering

This is an opportunity to build a world-class talent function from a strong existing foundation, with genuine influence over how a venture-backed company scales. You’ll work with a team committed to meaningful, challenging work and backed by Tier 1 investors including Founders Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners. The role offers a seat at the executive table where you shape strategy rather than simply implement it.