Senior Talent Partner, AI & Engineering

The role

This role combines executive recruiting, talent advisory, and HR business partnership. You will work with senior leaders to hire technical talent and strengthen organizational effectiveness.

What you will do

• Partner with executives and senior engineering leaders on talent strategy and organizational planning.
• Influence hiring priorities, organizational design, succession planning, and leadership team effectiveness.
• Advise leaders using market intelligence, hiring data, and competitive talent insights.
• Own full-cycle recruiting for Engineering, AI, Machine Learning, Infrastructure, Product, and leadership positions.
• Develop creative sourcing strategies to attract talent from AI companies and Silicon Valley firms.
• Build relationships with executive-level candidates.
• Maintain hiring bar through structured assessments and interview processes.
• Partner with leaders on onboarding, performance management, employee development, and retention.
• Coach managers through sensitive employee situations.
• Identify organizational risks and recommend solutions.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of combined experience in technical recruiting, talent acquisition, HR business partnering, or a hybrid talent role.
• Experience supporting engineering organizations in high-growth Silicon Valley technology companies or AI-first organizations.
• Ability to build trusted relationships and influence executives through data, judgment, and business partnership.
• Track record of hiring software engineers, AI/ML engineers, infrastructure engineers, technical leaders, or other highly competitive technical talent.
• Strong understanding of organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, and employee lifecycle management.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Resilience and adaptability in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
• Willingness to work on-site five days per week in Mountain View.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting organizations in frontier AI, LLM, agentic AI, or generative AI.
• Experience partnering directly with founders, C-level executives, or senior engineering leadership.
• Familiarity with AI-powered recruiting tools, sourcing automation, and talent analytics.
• Experience supporting globally distributed engineering teams.
• Professional fluency in both English and Mandarin Chinese

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus
• Options

About the company

NewsBreak is a local life and news platform with more than 40 million monthly users. It includes platforms like NewsBreak, Nearby AI, and NDot AI.