Assistant Recruitment Manager

The role

You will own the global technical recruiting function to build engineering and AI teams. You will lead technical hiring, build recruiting strategy, and coach a technical recruiting team.

What you will do

• Own technical hiring across AI/ML, backend, infrastructure, web, mobile and engineering leadership
• Build technical recruiting strategy, team structure, hiring priorities and operating cadence
• Lead searches for critical and senior hires from market mapping to closing
• Set the standard for candidate quality
• Partner with engineering and company leadership to define hiring bars and processes
• Build and coach a high-performing technical recruiting team
• Use recruiting data and market intelligence to improve hiring quality and speed
• Build scalable recruiting processes and talent networks across the US, Europe and Asia

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of recruiting experience with deep experience hiring software engineering, AI/ML or other highly technical talent
• Proven track record building and leading technical recruiting for a high-growth technology company while remaining hands-on with critical searches
• Strong understanding of engineering and AI talent markets
• Demonstrated success hiring senior engineers, technical leaders and other scarce talent through proactive headhunting
• Experience building, managing and raising the performance of technical recruiting teams
• Ability to work directly with founders and engineering leaders
• Strong judgement on talent, high execution speed and clear accountability for hiring outcomes

Nice to have

• Experience leading technical recruiting at an AI company, AI-native startup or high-growth technology company
• Direct experience recruiting AI researchers, ML engineers, applied AI engineers and senior engineering leaders
• Strong existing networks across global AI and engineering communities
• Experience building technical teams across multiple markets, particularly the US, Europe and Asia

About the company

ActAI aims to build proactive applications for anyone in the world with minimal to no prompting. Their first application is an agent-first mobile communication app.