Assistant Recruitment Manager

Overview

Own ActAI's global technical recruiting function and build the engineering and AI teams required to scale the company.

What you'll do

• Own technical hiring across ActAI, including AI/ML, backend, infrastructure, web, mobile and engineering leadership.
• Build the technical recruiting strategy, team structure, hiring priorities and operating cadence required to meet company hiring goals.
• Personally lead searches for critical and senior hires, from market mapping and headhunting through assessment, offer negotiation and closing.
• Set the standard for candidate quality, ensuring recruiters evaluate actual technical contribution, complexity and relevance rather than relying on titles, companies or keywords.
• Partner directly with engineering and company leadership to define hiring bars, target profiles, interview processes and final hiring decisions.
• Build and coach a high-performing technical recruiting team, reviewing pipelines and raising the quality of sourcing, assessment and candidate management.
• Use recruiting data and market intelligence to identify bottlenecks, challenge ineffective searches and continuously improve hiring quality, speed and conversion.
• Build scalable recruiting processes and talent networks across the US, Europe and Asia without allowing process to replace judgement or execution.

What you'll need

• 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, with the ability to assess the substance and relevance of highly technical profiles.
• 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, challenge assumptions and translate company priorities into executable hiring plans.
• 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.