Founding Talent Sourcer

Talent Team

  • Location

    Remote

  • Timezone(s)

    GMT +2 to GMT -8

About PostHog

We're shipping every product that companies need to run their business from their first day, to the day they IPO, and beyond. The operating system for folks who build software.

We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort. We've since shipped more than a dozen products, including:

  • A built-in data warehouse, so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.

  • A customer data platform, so they can send their data wherever they need with ease.

  • PostHog AI, an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries.

Next on the roadmap are CRM, workflow, revenue analytics, and support products. When we say every product that companies need to run their business, we really mean it!

We are:

  1. Product-led. More than 100,000 companies have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit.

  2. Default alive. Revenue is growing 10% MoM on average, and we're very efficient. We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on.

  3. Well-funded. We've raised more than $100m from some of the world's top investors. We're set up for a long, ambitious journey.

We're focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and being as weird as possible.

Things we care about

  • Transparency: Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our public company handbook. Internally, we share revenue, notes and slides from board meetings, and fundraising plans, so everyone has the context they need to make good decisions.

  • Autonomy: We don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what's going to have the biggest impact on our customers, and what they find interesting and motivating to work on. Engineers lead product teams and make product decisions. Teams are flexible and easy to change when needed.

  • Shipping fast: Why not now? We want to build a lot of products; we can't do that shipping at a normal pace. We've built the company around small teams – autonomous, highly-efficient groups of cracked engineers who can outship much larger companies because they own their products end-to-end.

  • Time for building: Nothing gets shipped in a meeting. We're a natively remote company. We default to async communication – PRs > Issues > Slack. Tuesdays and Thursdays are meeting-free days, and we prioritize heads down building time over perfect coordination. This will be the most productive job you've ever had.

  • Ambition: We want to solve big problems. We strongly believe that aiming for the best possible upside, and sometimes missing, is better than never trying. We're optimistic about what's possible and our ability to get there.

  • Being weird: Weird means redesigning an already world-class website for the 5th time. It means shipping literally every product that relates to customer data. It means building an objectively unnecessary developer toy with dubious shareholder value. Doing weird stuff is a competitive advantage. And it's fun.

Why you’ll love it here

  • You’ll have a real impact - the people you find will shape our company’s future

  • You’ll work with a collaborative, low-ego team that values curiosity and kindness

  • Room to grow, learn, and level up your recruiting career

Job Summary

Our Talent team has historically relied entirely on inbound candidates. Now, as we aim to hire 10× faster than before, we need additional support. That’s why we’re searching for our very first Founding Talent Sourcer - someone who thrives on the thrill of the search, gets a dopamine hit from a perfectly crafted outreach message, and believes that the right hire can drive exceptional results.

You’ll decode technical needs, translate hiring wish lists into realistic search strategies, and craft outreach messages that sound human, relevant, and worth responding to. You’ll build pipelines with intention, not shortcuts.

If sparking conversations that lead to game-changing hires excites you, this might be the role for you.

What you'll be doing

  • Scouting different networks, platforms, Slack communities, and hidden corners of the talent universe for amazing humans

  • Building strong, diverse candidate pipelines that make talent partners and hiring team leads do a happy dance 🕺🏼

  • Tracking, organizing, and optimizing sourcing efforts like the data-savvy pro you are

  • Test and refine outbound strategies - messaging, channels, triggers, and tools (because curiosity is your fuel)

What you won't be doing

❌ Interviewing (you will still have to do some basic prescreening)
❌ Creating new roles or job offers

❌ Managing candidates through the process - once a candidate “applies”, you'll hand off to a talent partner
❌ Any recruitment enhancements or process improvements
❌ Onboarding or people-related tasks

What you're great at

  • Have experience sourcing for technical, niche, and high-growth roles at SaaS companies

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills - you can craft relevant, thoughtful and/or unhinged outreach

  • A passion for finding people who aren’t actively looking - but should be

  • Juggling multiple roles, priorities, and pipelines without breaking a sweat 😅

  • Staying organized while thinking creatively

  • Balancing speed with quality in high-demand, competitive talent markets

Bonus points if you…

  • Speak fluent Boolean and can tweak a search like you’re debugging code

  • Get weirdly excited about response rates and pipeline metrics

If you love the hunt, enjoy working in a fast-moving environment, and 100% passionate about connecting great people with great opportunities, we’d love to meet you.

Apply now and help us find our next amazing teammate!

If you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you - we're happy to accommodate!

Meet the Talent Team

PostHog's recruitment team

Team members

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We have a set system for compensation as part of being transparent. Salary varies based on location and level of experience.

Learn more about compensation

Location

(based on market rates)

Level

Step

Salary calculator

  1. Benchmark (United States - San Francisco, California) $165,000
  2. Level modifier 1
  3. Step modifier 0.95 - 1.04
Salary $156,750 - $171,600+ significant equity
We are open to paying well beyond these ranges for exceptional talent. If this is you, please apply.

  • Generous, transparent compensation & equityGenerous, transparent compensation & equity
  • Unlimited vacation (with a minimum!)Unlimited vacation (with a minimum!)
  • Two meeting-free days per weekTwo meeting-free days per week
  • Home officeHome office
  • Coworking creditCoworking credit
  • Private health, dental, and vision insurance.Private health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Training budgetTraining budget
  • Access to our Hedge HouseAccess to our Hedge House
  • Carbon offsettingCarbon offsetting
  • Pension & 401k contributionsPension & 401k contributions
  • We hire and pay locallyWe hire and pay locally
  • Company offsitesCompany offsites

Get more details about all our benefits on the Careers page.

Hire about 50 people - full list here

We do not expect to make all these hires in Q1 - the low ones in particular are more of a stretch goal. We expect to make about ~50 hires in Q1 in total.

High

  • Developer Marketer (Data Stack) - Coua
  • Digital Illustrator - Coua
  • Influencer Wranger - Coua
  • Social Poster (in chief)- Julia
  • Propagandist - Julia
  • Technical Account Manager Coua/Julia
  • Technical Account Manager Coua/Julia
  • Technical Account Manager - Coua/Julia
  • Technical Support Engineer - Coua/Julia
  • Technical Customer Success Manager Coua/Julia
  • Forward Deployed Engineer - Julia
  • Design Engineer - Rune/Zbynek
  • Product Engineer - AI - Rune/Zbynek
  • Product engineer - Rune/Zbynek
  • Product engineer - Rune/Zbynek
  • Product manager - Zbynek
  • Product manager Zbynek
  • Software eng - hogql - Mark
  • Product eng - systems/backend leaning (modeling)- Mark
  • Pipelines eng - Mark
  • Product eng - Rune/Zbynek
  • Product eng - Rune/Zbynek
  • Product eng - Rune/Zbynek
  • Product eng - auth - Rune/Zbynek
  • Mobile eng -Rune/Zbynek
  • Product Engineer - Mark
  • Product Engineer - Rune/Zbynek
  • Backend Engineer - Mark
  • Design Engineer - Rune/Zbynek
  • Talent Partner - Julia

Medium

  • Event Builder - Coua
  • 2D/3D Animator - Julia
  • YouTuber - Julia
  • Partnerships Manager - Coua
  • Developer Marketer - Coua
  • Technical Account Manager - Coua/Julia
  • Technical Customer Success Manager - Coua/Julia
  • YC-focused CSM - Coua/Julia
  • Technical Support Engineer - Coua/Julia
  • Technical Support Engineer - Coua/Julia
  • Platform Engineer - Mark
  • Platform Engineer - Mark
  • Clickhouse Engineer - Mark
  • Backend Engineer Logs - Mark
  • Backend Engineer - Mark
  • Product Engineer AI - Rune/Zbynek

Low

  • Onboarding specialist - Coua/Julia
  • Clickhouse Engineer - Mark
  • Backend Engineer - Mark
  • Design Engineer - Rune/Zbynek
  • Accountant - Fraser

The sections are not stack-ranked.

  • Hire and onboard Talent Partner successfully - Julia + Coua
  • Increase outbound efforts and create a plan of how we’re going to get 10 hires - Fraser + Coua
  • Make at least 2 hires from “proactive referral program” - Julia
  • Spark more joy in the candidate emails and offer - Zbynek + Coua
  • Keep time to offer under 30 days - team

We do 2-3 short interviews, then pay you to do some real-life (or close to real-life) work.

  • 1
    Application (You are here)
    Our talent team will review your application

    We're looking to see how your skills and experience align with our needs.

  • 2
    Culture interview
    30-min video call

    Our goal is to explore your motivations to join our team, learn why you’d be a great fit, and answer questions about us.

  • 3
    Technical interview
    45 minutes, varies by role

    You'll meet the hiring team who will evaluate skills needed to be successful in your role. No live coding.

  • 4
    Culture & Motivation interview
    20 minutes, varies by role

    You have reached the final boss. It's time to chat with one of our Blitzscale team members.

  • 5
    PostHog SuperDay
    Paid day of work

    You’ll meet a few more members of the team and work on an independent project. It's challenging, but most people say it's fun, and we'll pay you $1,000 for your efforts!

  • 6
    Offer
    Pop the champagne (after you sign)

    If everyone is happy, we’ll make you an offer to join us - YAY!

(Now for the fun part...)

Just fill out this painless form and we'll get back to you within a few days. Thanks in advance!

Seriously, just write a couple of sentences about why you love us and you'll be doing better than 90% of applications.

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