Talent Acquisition Associate.

Alpha Drop Ventures is building the standard layer for cultural commerce. At the center is DROPZ, our core platform. Around it sit the brands we build and own, like Cipher Noir, which set the bar for what credible culture-led product looks like. One ecosystem, one standard, many surfaces. We are pre-launch, raising, and moving fast with people who could be doing easier things somewhere else and chose this instead. The team we build next will shape everything that follows. You own that pipeline.

The Role

You own how we find, attract, and move candidates through the hiring process. At this stage, every hire matters more than it ever will again. A weak hire costs more than a missed one. Your job is to make sure the right people get in and the wrong ones do not.

• Own end-to-end recruitment across roles, from sourcing and screening to coordinating assessments, interviews, and offer communication

• Source candidates actively and with intent, not just posting and waiting, using LinkedIn, communities, referrals, and direct outreach to build pipelines that convert

• Screen candidates at the first stage, reviewing applications to filter for the signals that matter: clarity of thinking, ownership, and genuine fit

• Maintain accurate hiring data, tracking pipeline status, conversion rates, and time-to-hire so decisions are made on real information

• Build and improve the recruitment infrastructure as the team scales, including sourcing playbooks, screening criteria, and candidate communication templates

What This Actually Is

This is a founding team role. That means more than a title.

• You are not filling seats. You are building the team that builds the company. The quality of your judgment at the screening stage has a direct and lasting impact

• You will work across roles and functions simultaneously, switching context quickly and keeping multiple pipelines moving without dropping quality

• Feedback is direct and unfiltered. You hear clearly when something is off and when it lands, and you are expected to handle both calmly

• You will help shape how Alpha Drop hires before there is a mature TA function to lean on. That is the rare part of this role and the demanding part

If you want fixed lanes and a manager who checks in twice a week, this is the wrong room, and that is fine.

How We Build And What Sets You Apart

We are here to build something, not make noise around something. We hold a high bar and we hold it together. The role gets you hired. This is what makes you matter here.

• You treat candidate quality as your personal standard, not a metric someone else tracks

• You give candidates a clear and honest experience throughout the process, because how we hire is part of how we are known

• You build things that outlast the task. Templates, sourcing playbooks, and screening frameworks, not just filled roles

• No passive feedback, no dropped context, no low effort with an excuse attached

• When a deadline is at risk, you raise it early. When a candidate is not the right fit, you say it clearly and move on

• Going above and beyond is not about hours. It is about caring more precisely than the task requires, and hiring like every person you bring in will help build the archive

Who You Are

• Minimum 6 months in talent acquisition, recruitment, or a people operations role, with experience managing multiple roles simultaneously

• Able to source candidates actively and with judgment, identifying strong signals from a profile or application without defaulting to credential-matching

• Strong written communicator who can represent the company well in every candidate-facing message, from outreach to offer

• Organised with pipelines, trackers, and timelines, keeping everything visible and up-to-date without being reminded

• Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and decisions made on incomplete information, then refining from feedback and results

• Genuinely interested in people, culture, and team building, not just filling roles. You want to shape how a high-standard company attracts and selects the people who build it

Build with us. Do not perform for us.