Head of People & Talent

Who We Are

Perchwell is the modern real estate listings platform built for agents to search smarter collaborate better and close deals faster. We are building the future of residential real estateʼs critical listings infrastructure: a platform where market  research and client collaboration converge. Our modern architecture enables continuous innovation at a pace legacy systems cannot match with AI-powered features and mobile-first capabilities designed for how agents actually work. As consumer expectations and technology evolve Perchwell remains focused on our core vision:  empowering real estate professionals with the most intelligent data-driven and connected platform in the industry.

Backed by leading venture capital firms including Lux Capital and Founders Fund along with strategic partnerships with some of the country's top Multiple Listing Services (MLSs) Perchwell represents the first major new platform to enter the listings technology market in decades. This unique combination of institutional investment and deep industry alignment provides both the resources and market validation needed to transform the multi-trillion dollar residential real estate industry.

What We're Looking For:
The Head of People & Talent role is a foundational leadership position responsible for shaping how Perchwell scales its team culture and operating rigor through its next chapters of growth. Own People & Talent at Perchwell with a recruiting-first approach. Build a hiring engine that consistently delivers high-quality candidates and hires while also establishing the minimum set of People foundations that keep the company healthy as it scales. Recruit for high value roles with a specific focus on technical talent.

• Hiring plan is being executed against with data driven visibility through: leaders knowing what’s open what’s stuck and what decisions are needed.

• Hits the ground running by owning searches by leveraging deep NY market knowledge to source and close roles focused on high-value technical and supporting team build outs across the company.

• By inheriting a recruiting system that already works with clear role definitions structured interview loops hiring partners clean data consistent debriefs and a strong closing motion to make it faster smarter and more scalable without adding complexity.

• Recruiting is a dependable machine that scales with the business with a clear bar for quality and a repeatable approach across functions – measured by time-to-fill by role type and pipeline coverage rations

• People operations are stable and predictable: policies compliance manager support and core programs run smoothly.

• The People function is trusted across the company because it is practical fast and high judgment.

Required for this Role:

• Has personally owned hiring outcomes in a fast-moving environment and can speak in specifics about what they delivered as a high velocity recruiter

• They run recruiting like an operator: pipeline generation conversion rates bottleneck fixing closing.

• Can drive clarity with leadership and hold a line on process without creating friction or bureaucracy.

• Has the judgment and maturity to handle sensitive situations and the confidence to say “here’s what we should do.”

• Leans into building with AI leveraging Claude Code and next generation tooling to amplify what talent and people can do.

In this role you’ll work out of our New York City HQ in Soho Manhattan at least 4 days/week.

Bonus Points for the Following:

• Has owned People Ops beyond recruiting (onboarding compliance employee relations processes) in a small company.

• Has experience with NY / multi-state compliance or has partnered closely with counsel on it.

• Has built compensation bands / leveling frameworks or partnered with finance on them.

• Has implemented or cleaned up an ATS/HRIS and built a clean reporting cadence.

To provide greater transparency to candidates we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. Our ranges are based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including skills job-related knowledge and depth of work experience.

The compensation for this position is $195-$230K base salary + equity + benefits

• Flexible PTO plus 10 paid company holidays

• 401K with a company match

• Medical dental and vision plans

• HSA and FSA options

• Commuter benefits

• Parental leave

• Company-wide onsite or offsite each year

• Beautiful office in Soho Manhattan with a stocked kitchen catered breakfast and lunch once per week happy hours and meet-ups

What We Do

Built on a state-of-the-art data engine Perchwell empowers real estate professionals to do their best work provide differentiated service to their clients and close more deals. Backed by Lux Capital Founders Fund and some of the country’s leading MLSs Perchwell is scaling its best-in-class solution to become the nation’s most powerful real estate platform for agents brokerages and MLSs. Mission: At Perchwell our goal is to empower real estate professionals to provide best in class service to their clients. Our platform combines the best of clean data and intelligent software into a single platform. Perchwell helps innovative real estate professionals get work done.

Why Work With Us

Perchwellians are eager learners conscientious collaborators and supportive teammates who are obsessed with keeping our customers at the heart of everything we do. If you’re curious low-ego outcome oriented and operate with a bias to action we’re very interested in working with you.

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