Head of Talent, Blank Street
$100-130k
Plus Equity
Office located in Brooklyn, NYC
Coffee chain
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Coffee chain
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$100-130k
Plus Equity
Office located in Brooklyn, NYC
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To become the defining food and beverage brands of our generation.
Role
Who you are
- Results Oriented - Takes initiative, drives projects to completion, and consistently delivers outcomes efficiently and proactively
- Problem-Solving - Thinks critically and creatively to overcome challenges, using logic and innovative approaches to achieve results
- Communication & Partnership - Builds trust and collaborates effectively, communicating clearly, confidently, and with humility across stakeholders
- Detail Oriented - Plans, prioritizes, and manages multiple tasks with precision and accuracy, ensuring high-quality outputs
- Experience in high-growth, fast-paced environments (hospitality, retail, consumer, or startups preferred)
- You’ve scaled hiring from dozens to hundreds and thousands of hires
- Proven ability to build or significantly improve recruiting processes
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity with high ownership and bias for action
- You can think big and move fast
- You enjoy fixing broken systems and creating scalable structure
What the job involves
- Blank Street is looking for a Head of Talent to own and scale hiring across the US. We’re entering a phase of rapid growth and need to hire exceptional people at scale without compromising quality
- This is a builder role — you won’t just run recruiting, you’ll design how it works
- You’ll operate at both a strategic and executional level, partnering closely with leaders across the business to hire exceptional talent across our stores and HQ. From standing up hiring in new markets to improving systems and processes, you’ll build a recruiting engine (0 → 1 and 1 → 10) that can scale with the business
- This role directly shapes who we hire, how we grow, and the long-term quality of our teams. You’ll be expected to think big, move quickly, and get your hands dirty
- This is fully in-person based in our Brooklyn HQ and reports to the Senior Director of People
- Own end-to-end hiring across store, field, and HQ roles
- Build and scale recruiting systems that support high-volume hiring (2,000+ hires/year)
- Stand up hiring for new markets from scratch
- Partner with hiring managers to define roles, calibrate talent, and raise the bar
- Identify gaps and proactively design solutions (process, tooling, sourcing strategies)
- Use data to diagnose funnel and general recruiting issues and drive improvements
- Get your hands dirty. This is a player-coach role where you’ll actively recruit but also manage a team
Our take
More people deserve great coffee and Blank Street strives to make this possible. Blank Street’s formula involves technology enabled, micro-footprint brick-and-mortar spaces which operate at a cheap price meaning they can produce excellent coffee, also, at a reasonable price.
What started as one electric-powered coffee cart in 2020 has expanded to over 90 locations across the US and the UK. Blank Street wants to serve coffee cheaper than Starbucks but tastier than Dunkin’ Donuts – its main competitors – and has done so with automation, specifically Eversys espresso makers that can produce 700 drinks an hour.
The chain has received mighty financing too, including from real estate tycoon Tishman Speyer as well as from General Catalyst Partners and Tiger Global Management. This brand is certainly making its mark as its growth has remained at an impressive rate, especially following its entrance into the thriving coffee shop market in the UK.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2023
$20m
EARLY VC
Oct 2021
$25m
SERIES A
Total funding: $52m
Company HQ
South Williamsburg, NY
Leadership
Issam Freiha
(Co-Founder & CEO)Issam co-founded Blank Street in 2020 alongside Vinay. Previously, he was a Partner at Reshape Ventures and Graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Economics & Statistics.
Vinay Menda
(Co-Founder & President)Vinay graduated from NYU Stern School of Business with a Bachelor's Degree in Finance in 2015. And he is currently a Managing Partner at Reshape Ventures.
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