Talent Partner

US Required | 5–8 Years Experience

We’re building a universal API that lets brokers, TMSs, fintechs, and fleets connect to truck and trailer data through a single integration.

As a Talent Partner at Catena, you’ll operate at the intersection of hiring managers, candidates, and company strategy. You will own talent as a core strategic lever of our growth, directly influencing the quality and velocity of how Catena scales.

This is not a back-office HR role. Externally, you’ll be embedded in the talent market, proactively sourcing high-caliber engineers and technical leaders. Internally, you’ll work directly with our CEO, CTO, and GTM leaders to define hiring priorities, sharpen role definitions, and build a repeatable recruiting engine that scales with the company.

When a role stalls, you’ll diagnose why. When candidates drop off, you’ll fix the funnel. When we’re not competitive, you’ll help us adapt. You are responsible for increasing velocity without lowering the bar.

Key Responsibilities

• Talent Planning & End-to-End Execution:
• Partner directly with the executive leadership team to define hiring needs and prioritize
• Work with hiring managers and interviewers to identify ideal profiles and develop scorecards
• Own full-cycle recruiting for all open roles
• Drive sell strategy and closing conversations with top-tier candidates
• Sourcing & Pipeline Building:
• Proactively source top-of-funnel for all roles
• Build and maintain multi-channel pipelines (LinkedIn, GitHub, referrals, outbound)
• Develop creative sourcing strategies in highly competitive technical markets
• Continuously improve time-to-fill and close rates
• Recruiting Infrastructure & Process:
• Design and implement scalable recruiting systems and operational discipline
• Run structured interview processes with high candidate experience
• Maintain ATS hygiene and structured feedback loops
• Own reporting and analytics on funnel health, hiring velocity, and close rates
• Improve documentation and hiring playbooks
• Product & Culture Feedback Loop:
• Surface hiring market insights to leadership
• Shape Catena’s employer brand and competitive talent positioning.
• Influence how Catena competes for talent as we scale

Skills & Qualifications

• Strong ownership mindset and attention to detail
• Experience hiring backend, data, or infrastructure engineers
• Ability to assess and recognize strong technical backgrounds
• Comfortable sourcing hard-to-find profiles
• Clear communicator with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Able to manage multiple open roles simultaneously
• Effective in a remote-first environment

Why Join Us?

• Real Impact: The engineers and operators you hire will directly power the infrastructure layer for freight. Your work compounds through every product we ship and every customer we win.
• Front-Row Seat to Scale: We are at an inflection point with real revenue, real customers, and real infrastructure in production. You’ll help shape how we scale the team from here, not inherit a finished recruiting machine.
• Direct Access to Leadership: You’ll work closely with the CEO, CTO, and Head of Growth. Hiring decisions are strategic here, not transactional.
• Strategic Influence: Hiring is not a support function at Catena. It is a competitive advantage.
• High Ownership: No HR bureaucracy, no layers of approvals. You’ll have autonomy to build process, improve systems, and drive velocity without lowering the bar.
• Meaningful Equity: You’re not just filling roles. You’re building the team that defines the company, and you should share in the upside.
• Remote-First Culture: Flexible environment, strong operators, high standards, low ego.

Compensation: Competitive salary + meaningful equity, full benefits, 401k match

Company Description

Catena builds the connectivity infrastructure freight has been missing. We unify telematics, sensors, and operational data into a single API so logistics platforms can automate workflows, reduce fraud, improve safety, and build better products.

We’re operators who’ve lived these problems inside carriers, brokerages, TMSs, and financial institutions. We care about accuracy, coverage, and real outcomes, not hype.

Catena has raised $8.25M from Shaper Capital, Floating Point, Plug and Play, Liquid 2, and leading industry angels.