Our client, an AI startup, is seeking a seasoned Technical Recruiter to help build and scale a world-class team. As one of the earliest hiring leaders, you will partner directly with the founders to shape the company's talent strategy, organizational design, and long-term hiring roadmap.

This is not a transactional recruiting role; it's a strategic, high-ownership position where you will influence company direction, advise leadership, and secure the technical, product, and legal talent required to advance cutting-edge GenAI innovation.

What You'll Do

• Serve as a strategic talent advisor to founders and hiring leaders, aligning recruiting priorities with business goals and future team structure.
• Build, nurture, and convert top-tier talent across engineering, product, AI research, and adjacent domains.
• Use data, market insights, and competitive intelligence to shape hiring strategy, leveling, compensation, and process improvements.
• Partner with interview teams on sourcing strategy, evaluation criteria, candidate experience, and closing strategy.
• Drive full-cycle recruiting pipeline development, outreach, assessments, negotiation, and onboarding.
• Collaborate closely with sourcing and recruiting operations to accelerate search execution and scalable hiring systems.

What Were Looking For

• 7 to 14 years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience within early-stage, high-growth startups.
• Proven success in building engineering teams from the ground up.
• Experience partnering directly with founders and executives on organizational design and hiring strategy.
• Strong sourcing, assessment, storytelling, and closing capabilities.
• Data-driven decision-making and comfort influencing leaders with insights.
• Experience with modern ATS platforms (Ashby preferred); proficiency with Juicebox required.
• A builder's mindset: resourceful, proactive, relationship-driven, and energized by ambiguity.