Assistant Recruitment Manager

Accountabilities:

You will own the global technical recruiting function, combining strategic leadership with hands-on execution to attract exceptional engineering and AI talent. Your focus will be on building scalable recruitment capabilities while maintaining high standards for candidate quality, speed, and hiring effectiveness.

• Lead technical recruitment across AI/ML, backend engineering, infrastructure, web and mobile development, and engineering leadership.
• Develop the technical recruiting strategy, team structure, hiring priorities, and operating processes required to achieve company growth objectives.
• Personally manage critical and senior-level searches, including market mapping, proactive headhunting, candidate assessment, offer negotiation, and closing.
• Establish clear standards for evaluating technical candidates, emphasizing demonstrated contributions, problem-solving ability, technical complexity, and relevance rather than relying solely on job titles or employer names.
• Partner with founders, engineering leaders, and other senior stakeholders to define hiring requirements, candidate profiles, interview processes, and final hiring decisions.
• Build, manage, and coach a high-performing technical recruiting team, improving sourcing strategies, candidate evaluation, pipeline management, and overall recruiter effectiveness.
• Monitor recruitment metrics and market intelligence to identify bottlenecks, challenge ineffective searches, and improve hiring quality, speed, and conversion rates.
• Develop scalable recruitment processes and talent networks across the United States, Europe, and Asia.
• Maintain a balance between structured recruitment processes and sound professional judgment, ensuring execution and candidate quality remain the priority.
• Take accountability for hiring outcomes and continuously adapt recruitment strategies to meet evolving technical talent needs.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate is an experienced technical recruiting leader who combines deep knowledge of engineering and AI talent markets with strong people leadership and hands-on sourcing capabilities. You should be comfortable partnering with senior technical stakeholders, making informed talent decisions, and building recruitment functions in fast-growing technology environments.

• Have at least 10 years of recruiting experience, including substantial experience hiring software engineers, AI/ML specialists, or other highly technical professionals.
• Demonstrate a proven track record of building and leading technical recruiting functions within high-growth technology companies while remaining directly involved in critical searches.
• Possess a strong understanding of engineering and AI talent markets and the ability to assess the depth, relevance, and practical impact of candidates' technical experience.
• Have experience recruiting senior engineers, technical leaders, and other hard-to-find talent through proactive sourcing and headhunting.
• Demonstrate success building, managing, and improving the performance of technical recruiting teams.
• Be able to work directly with founders and engineering leadership, challenge assumptions constructively, and translate business priorities into actionable hiring plans.
• Bring strong judgment in talent evaluation, excellent execution speed, and clear accountability for recruitment results.
• Have strong communication, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills.

Nice-to-have qualifications:

• Experience leading technical recruitment at an AI company, AI-native startup, or high-growth technology business.
• Direct experience recruiting AI researchers, machine learning engineers, applied AI engineers, and senior engineering leaders.
• Established networks across global AI and engineering communities.
• Experience building technical teams across multiple international markets, particularly the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Benefits:

• Opportunity to shape the global technical recruiting strategy of an AI-focused technology company.
• Significant influence over the development of engineering and AI teams and the company's long-term growth.
• A leadership role combining strategic ownership, team development, and hands-on recruitment.
• Exposure to international talent markets across the United States, Europe, and Asia.
• Opportunities to collaborate directly with founders and senior engineering leaders.
• The source job description does not specify salary, healthcare coverage, paid leave, or other formal benefits.