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title: 'Founder Talent Acquisition at Hexa'
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# Founder Talent Acquisition at Hexa

- **Company:** Hexa
- **Location:** Paris, France
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hexa/90a339f8-1707-4961-bb58-e62d9e6620e2

## Job description

## Who we are

Hexa is a venture studio. Since 2011, we've built more than 60 companies, including 3 unicorns. Every year, our startup studio, Hexa Start, creates 12 companies from scratch, and our accelerator, Hexa Sprint, funds several dozen more. Each Start company begins with a CEO and a CTO we recruit ourselves: finding them is our core business. That's where you come in. 👀

## The role

Our partners bring the ideas. What turns an idea into a real company is the people who build it, so finding the right founders is Hexa's core business. That's your job: convincing aspiring founders to join us, walking them through a life-changing decision, and putting them in front of the right partner at the right time. Our marketing team builds and nurtures the reservoir of future founders. You turn it into a pipeline for each open role (say, a CTO for a cybersecurity project with experience in LLM-built attacks), run the search with the partner leading the project, assess, and close. Laure, your peer, does the same for each company's first employees. This is a senior individual contributor role. You'll need the business sense to read an idea and know what kind of founder it calls for, and a sharp eye for entrepreneurial profiles: you can tell a true entrepreneur from a strong manager, even when both look great on paper.

## What you'll actually do

- Source, hands-on: inbound comes first, but you roll up your sleeves and reach out to everyone who looks on track to start something, before anyone else does,
- Build a pipeline for every open founder role within two weeks, from your own sourcing, the marketing reservoir and our scoring agents,
- Own the founder scorecard with the partners and fine-tune it every quarter against real hiring outcomes,
- Interview, assess and close demanding, sometimes hesitant candidates, alongside partners and our CTO,
- Tell marketing and community what each search is missing, down to the event it needs,
- Act as product owner of our recruiting stack (Ashby, sourcing tools, AI agents), and call in agencies when a search runs short.

## What we're looking for

- 2 to 7 years in recruiting or talent acquisition, close to founders: fast-growing startup, VC fund, accelerator, studio, or founder and executive search
- You know what makes a strong founder, and you have examples rather than generalities
- A track record of closing senior or founder-level candidates, with numbers to back it
- You build trust fast, and you can challenge a candidate without putting them off
- You're as comfortable testing an agent or optimizing a workflow as building a relationship
- You have the standing to disagree with a partner, and the judgment to know when not to
- You are fluent in English and French

Our recruitment process

- First call with Laure, Talent Partner
- Introduction call with our CEO, to deepdive on the role
- Case study on a live search: pipeline, gaps and your plan for the next two weeks
- Interviews with two partners
- References with hiring managers and candidates you've placed

What's in it for you:

- Package: €62K to €68K gross/year (base salary of €52K–€57K + 20% annual profit sharing)
- Opportunity to invest in all Hexa portfolio startups at a (very) preferential rate
- Swile meal card
- 8 to 12 RTT days per year
- Flexible remote work policy (up to 2 days/week)
- Mobility budget: €500/year for green transportation (bike, metro, electric scooter)
- Health insurance with 50% coverage for you and your family
- 1% Holiday bonus
- MacBook laptop

## About Hexa

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hexa is a multi-stage startup studio that partners with founders to build, launch, and scale software companies from scratch.
- **Entity Type**: Private (multi-stage startup studio; operates Start, Sprint, and Scale tracks)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France (12 rue Martel 75010)
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed as a single founder; built as a studio by a founding team.

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Venture Building / Startup Studio / Company Creation
- Target customers: Aspiring and experienced entrepreneurs (B2B, B2C, Enterprise tech founders)
- Mission or purpose statement: "To build alongside founders, not from the sidelines" – creating companies that leave a mark on the world by combining hands-on operational support with capital.

## Products & Services
- **Hexa Start**: A 12-month, intensive program for entrepreneurs who want to build a company from scratch (often before they have a concrete idea). Hexa provides the idea, team, co-founder, and covers all costs until the company becomes independent.
- **Hexa Sprint**: A 6-month program for founding teams who already have an idea and are looking for their first check (pre-seed). Offers €500k (€20k convertible note for 4% + €480k convertible note with MFN & cap at €8M).
- **Hexa Scale**: A growth-stage program for post-product-market-fit companies ($1–10M ARR, 10–40% YoY growth). Hexa invests €5–20M per company, takes a majority stake, and provides hands-on operational support (GTM, product, AI strategy, international expansion, hiring) for 9–12 months.
- **In-house Expertise**: 30+ experts in Product Design, Product Management, Engineering (via hired teams), GTM, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Legal, People & Talent, Comms & Brand, Community, and Investing.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Combined valuation of launched companies exceeds **$5 billion**.
- **Key Metric**: **50+ companies launched**; **2,600+ employees** across portfolio companies; **12 exits**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed on the site, but the studio itself acts as the primary investor and operator. Portfolio includes multiple billion-dollar companies (names not publicly listed in the provided data).
- **Growth Signals**: Studio has been operating since 2011 and has scaled from 0 to 50+ companies. The addition of the Scale track indicates a pivot to later-stage growth. Receives ~1,000 founder applications per year, selecting ~12 founders (2 per project) annually for the Start track.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hands-on, not hands-off**: Unlike traditional accelerators or VCs, Hexa provides a full in-house team of operators (product, design, GTM, legal, finance) working alongside founders for 12 months (Start) or 9–12 months (Scale).
- **Founder-friendly majority stake**: For Scale, Hexa takes a majority stake but claims to be "the world’s most founder-friendly majority investor" – founders remain in the driver's seat with active board support.
- **Proven track record**: 50+ companies, $5B combined valuation, 12 exits, spanning 12+ years of SaaS expertise.
- **End-to-end platform**: Covers the entire lifecycle from idea (Start) to pre-seed (Sprint) to growth (Scale) – rare in the startup studio space.
- **Built-in network & resources**: Founders get immediate access to a team of 30+ experts, legal, finance, recruiting, and a community of other founders.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Scale track**: The newer Hexa Scale program is a key growth driver, targeting profitable, capital-efficient B2B SaaS companies with $1–10M ARR.
- **AI & embedded finance**: Hexa Scale explicitly helps companies with AI strategy and adding fintech/embedded finance capabilities.
- **International expansion**: Helping portfolio companies expand into new geographies and verticals.
- **Maintaining high selectivity**: Keeping the Start track highly curated (~12 founders/year) to ensure deep support and quality outcomes.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "You'll never build alone" – the studio emphasizes deep collaboration, ambition, humility, and execution. The team is composed of entrepreneurs and expert operators.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Hexa is based in Paris. For the Start track, a presence at HQ is important to benefit from resources and mentorship. Sprint is remote-friendly but based in France/Europe for events. Scale is likely remote-friendly with in-person board/partner meetings.
- **Perks & Engineering Culture**: No software engineers in the core team – each startup's product is built by engineers recruited specifically for that company. This means engineers get to join a funded startup with a built-in support system from day one. The studio provides legal, finance, recruiting, and strategic support so engineers can focus on product.
- **Career Path**: Two kinds of roles: (1) the core team that builds the machine (partners, product managers, designers, GTM, finance, legal) and (2) founding hires inside the startups coming out of the studio. Either way, you're in "before it exists" – a high-risk, high-reward environment with significant ownership and impact.

## Sources
1. [hexa.com](https://www.hexa.com/)
2. [hexa.com/positions](https://www.hexa.com/positions)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/hexa](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hexa)
4. [hexa.com/team](https://www.hexa.com/team)
5. [hexa.com/faq](https://www.hexa.com/faq)

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