The digital bridge for Hawaii & Pacific Talent.
Join tens of thousands Hawaii-rooted & Indo-Pacific professionals. Build one profile, get matched to local and remote roles, reconnect with alumni, and let vetted companies find you across the islands, the mainland, and the Pacific. Free, always.
Hawaii & Pacific Talent Community
Tens of thousands of Hawaii-rooted professionals across the islands, the mainland, and the wider Pacific. The living talent network every agent searches first.
The teams hiring on Talent Hui.
Featured Companies
Built for Hawaii, the Indo-Pacific & Defense
Your home base in the islands.
Browse the directory, see who is hiring, track real Hawaii salaries, and stay connected to the hui wherever life has taken you. Always free for talent.
Talent directory
Browse tens of thousands of vetted professionals across Hawaii and the Indo-Pacific, with defense and diaspora signals.
Browse the directory →Jobs
Roles from startups, defense primes, and Pacific enterprises hiring across the islands and remote.
See open roles →Salaries & leaderboards
Real Hawaii salary data and leaderboards by island, school, and city. Know your worth before you make a move.
See salaries →Community & schools
Events, alumni networks, and school leaderboards bringing kamaʻāina back home and elevating Hawaii across the Pacific.
Join the community →Why the hui is different
Every layer between you and the hiring manager, gone.
Hiring is usually a relay of middlemen: a job board, an ATS black hole, a recruiter screen, weeks of silence. Talent Hui is a job board with the ATS, the agents, and dozens of real hiring managers already behind it. One community, no relay.
The Founding Team
From Hawaii, building hiring that runs itself. Team backgrounds span Y Combinator, Columbia, and Carnegie Mellon.
Zack Hernandez
2X Founder, Hawaii native & talent executive
Founder of Talent Hui, building the agentic hiring platform from Honolulu. Proved the model inside AEP Hawaii's live recruiting operation before turning it into a platform any team can run.
PunahouColumbiaAEP Hawaii
Jeff Mori
Engineering
Built compensation and HR infrastructure at tech giants and enterprises. Architect of the Talent Hui platform. Big Island raised.
Y CombinatorCarnegie MellonHawaii Prep
Darius "Bubs" Monsef
Advisor
Three exits. One of Y Combinator and Hawaii's most trusted operator-investors, with a direct line to global venture capital.
Y Combinator3 exitsParker SchoolNalukai FoundationBattle Tested & Built Aloha
Proven running real hiring across the Pacific, then built into a company.
Talent Hui ran live recruiting inside AEP Hawaii and dozens of its Hawaii and Indo-Pacific clients: venture-backed startups, defense primes, and Pacific enterprises.
Proven inside
AEP Hawaii + dozens more
Need a dedicated recruiting team? AEP Hawaii's recruiters embed with you, powered by the Talent Hui stack.
Talk to AEP Hawaii →Our Mission
Bringing kamaʻāina back home, elevating Hawaii across the Pacific.
For so many kamaʻāina, the dream is simple: build your career, then find your way home. We bring kamaʻāina home, create high-paying jobs, and back the next wave of founders in Hawaii. Through school, island, and city leaderboards, we keep Hawaii's alumni connected, visible, and rooted, no matter where their career takes them.
What the community says
Built for Hawaii & the Pacific.
“Love the vision, will use it as our central source of truth for sourcing Hawaii talent.”
“Great tool. User-friendly for recruiters and candidates alike.”
“Talent Hui is something we've been missing, built for Hawaii, by people who understand Hawaii.”
Free for talent, always
Join the talent network.
Create your profile once, get matched while you sleep, and let companies across Hawaii and the Indo-Pacific find you.