Recruiter / Recruiting Lead

The role

You will own the hiring process and build recruiting infrastructure for Kairos. You will manage end-to-end hiring rounds, source candidates, and help scope new roles to support rapid growth.

What you will do

• Run Kairos’s hiring rounds end to end.
• Manage application review, work tests, interviews, reference checks, work trials, and offers.
• Source candidates from programs, networks, and the broader ecosystem.
• Build and improve hiring infrastructure including applications, work tests, and interview questions.
• Think about how AI changes application processes and how to use it to run hiring better.
• Help scope new roles and weigh in on org design questions.
• Support hiring for Kairos Labs.

Required qualifications

• Experience with recruiting.
• Strong judgment about people.
• Good with people.
• Organized and reliable.
• Mission-aligned with context on AI safety.

Nice to have

• Ideally you’ve run hiring processes before, whether as a recruiter or in a role where hiring was a big part of your work.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Highly competitive health insurance
• Dental and vision coverage
• Generous vacation policy
• Professional development budget
• All-team retreats three times a year
• Work-related travel and expenses covered
• Food, lunches, and office expenses if working from an AI safety office in specific cities
• Home office expenses if working from home

Before you apply

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
• AI tools help review applications; some may be declined based on AI review alone.
• Kairos is happy to sponsor visas to the US (typically H-1Bs or O-1As) and likely UK visas.
• Application process includes a paid take-home assignment and a paid 3-day work trial.

About the company

Kairos is a nonprofit accelerating talent into AI safety and policy. They manage a portfolio of impactful projects including SPAR, Generator Residency, Global Challenges Project, and Pathfinder Fellowship.