Director of Talent

About Mavria

Mavria’s mission is to build the industrial capacity America needs to lead in AI. We believe that sustaining America’s AI leadership requires an unprecedented expansion of power, manufacturing, supply chains and physical infrastructure.

Our founders are serial entrepreneurs who met at the U.S. Department of Energy, working on some of the country’s hardest energy and infrastructure projects. There, they saw a widening gap: AI labs and cloud providers were racing to scale compute, while the infrastructure underneath them was still built one custom project at a time, on timelines measured in years.

We founded Mavria to close that gap. We are building to industrialize intelligence: turning the physical infrastructure AI runs on into products we manufacture, deploy and improve with every build.

We’re starting with data centers. Our first product, Terrain, is a factory-built data center platform. Terrain 01 is being built in Houston now, and we’ve raised $130M as of October 2026 to accelerate our roadmap.

Terrain is our first product, not the limit of our ambition. We intend to eliminate the physical bottlenecks that constrain American AI leadership and build one of the foundational infrastructure companies of the AI era.

How we build

At Mavria, three principles guide how we work:

• Ambition: We want to build a generational company. To do that, we build capabilities, not just products. Terrain is our first product, not our last – and we seek to eliminate strategic bottlenecks across the entire AI supply chain.

• Urgency: AI moves in weeks, while infrastructure tends to move in years. We match the frontier’s pace by making decisions quickly, building in parallel and securing critical supply ahead of demand. We surface problems early and never compromise on safety or engineering rigor.

• Ownership: When we say we’ll do something, we do it. Keeping our word is how we stand apart, and taking radical ownership over our scope and our domain is how we build trust – internally and externally – while moving fast.

Role scope

As our Director of Talent, you’ll build the team that builds Mavria. Recruiting is the majority of this role: we’re hiring across engineering, manufacturing, site development and operations, and you’ll own how we find, close and onboard the people who fill them. You’ll report to our CFO and work directly with our founders. You will:

• Own recruiting end to end: Run every search from hiring manager intake to signed offer, including sourcing strategy, outreach, screening, interview coordination, offer construction and close.

• Find the people who aren’t looking: Build outbound pipelines for hard technical and commercial searches, including site acquisition, utility development, electrical and mechanical engineering, and manufacturing operations.

• Build the hiring system: Run our applicant tracking system, scorecards and structured interview loops so every hiring manager runs the same fast, rigorous process. Manage search firms where we use them, and steadily reduce how much we need them.

• Run People operations: Own onboarding, employment compliance, benefits administration and employee relations, and partner with Finance on payroll, headcount planning and compensation.

• Build the team: Hire and lead the recruiters, coordinators and People staff we need as hiring scales.

• Lead the culture in Houston: Be the on-the-ground People leader at our largest office, and shape the onboarding, rituals and day-to-day experience that make it a place people want to be.

What we're looking for

For this role, we’re looking for an established recruiting leader with the following qualities:

• Proven in recruiting: You have 5+ years in recruiting or a blended recruiting and HR role, including leading a team and owning full-cycle searches for technical and senior hires.

• A hunter: You’ve sourced and closed passive candidates, and you can walk us through the pipelines you built to do it.

• A builder: You’ve built a hiring process or People function from scratch and want to do it again.

• Grounded in compliance: You know US employment compliance well, including FLSA classification and multi-state requirements.

• A trusted face for Mavria: You will often be a candidate’s first conversation with us, and a discreet, reliable resource for our team.

Recruiting experience in data centers, power and utilities, energy, EPC and construction, heavy industry, or AI and semiconductors is especially relevant, as is a Houston network in energy and industrial talent and hands-on experience with our People toolstack (Rippling and Ashby). We value ability over years or titles.

To apply: Share your background and an example of a hard search you closed, including how you found the person.

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance is 100% paid for the employee

• Retirement Plan with a 3.5% company match

• Flexible time off

Mavria is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Mavria will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with applicable law.