Head of Recruiting

Goodfire

$400K — $500K *
Staffing
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of recruiting experience, ideally in the tech or AI industry
  • Proven track record of implementing successful recruiting strategies
  • Strong understanding of interpretability research and related fields
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
  • Experience managing and leading recruiting teams in fast-paced environments
  • Ability to analyze and leverage recruiting data for business decisions
  • Deep commitment to organizational values and mission-driven hiring

Responsibilities

  • Own and execute the overall hiring strategy for Goodfire
  • Develop a proactive sourcing engine targeting top researchers and engineers globally
  • Manage the entire interview process from start to finish
  • Define and uphold high hiring standards alongside founders and technical leadership
  • Analyze recruiting data for efficiency, conversion rates, and future hiring needs
  • Enhance candidate experience from outreach to offer acceptance
  • Build and lead a dynamic recruiting team that aligns with the organization's fast pace

Benefits

  • Equity in the company
  • Competitive health benefits package
  • Opportunity to work in a mission-driven environment
  • Access to a collaborative and high-performance team culture
  • Potential for personal and professional growth within a groundbreaking field
Full Job Description
About the role

We're hiring a Head of Recruiting to scale the highest-performing AI research organization in the world. You'll own our recruiting strategy and build a hiring engine that consistently identifies and closes exceptional talent. You'll work closely with our founders and technical leaders to internalize our hiring bar, and never lower it.

We're looking for a systems thinker who can turn recruiting into a repeatable machine. You should be the kind of person who builds a map of every strong interpretability researcher in the world, and knows how to reach each one.

You'll also thrive in a high-intensity environment and move with urgency. You'll build a team that matches our pace while giving candidates an exceptional experience and representing our culture well.

This role reports to the CEO.
Key responsibilities
  • Own Goodfire's hiring strategy and execution across all functions
  • Build a sourcing engine that maps and reaches the strongest researchers and engineers in the world before they're on the market
  • Own the interview process end to end
  • Define and defend the hiring bar in partnership with founders and technical leaders
  • Own recruiting data and forecasting: pipeline health, conversion, time-to-close, and the headcount plan behind them
  • Own candidate experience and how Goodfire shows up to the market, from first outreach to signed offer
  • Hire and lead a recruiting team that matches the pace of the company, while staying deeply hands-on in the funnel
Our values

Goodfire is looking for individuals who embody our values and share our deep commitment to making interpretability accessible. We are building a team first and foremost.

Put mission and team first

All we do is in service of our mission. We trust each other, deeply care about the success of the organization, and choose to put our team above ourselves.

Improve constantly

We are constantly looking to improve every piece of the business. We proactively critique ourselves and others in a kind and thoughtful way that translates to practical improvements in the organization. We are pragmatic and consistently implement the obvious fixes that work.

Take ownership and initiative

There are no bystanders here. We proactively identify problems and take full responsibility over getting a strong result. We are self-driven, own our mistakes, and feel deep responsibility over what we're building.

Action today

We have a small amount of time to do something incredibly hard and meaningful. The pace and intensity of the organization is high. If we can take action today or tomorrow, we will choose to do it today.
Where we work

We are hiring for this position in our San Francisco office who'd be onsite 5 days a week.
What we offer

This role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.

The expected salary range for this position is $400-500k.

This role reports to our CEO.

Most importantly, you'll have the opportunity to join a vital mission at an important point in its trajectory - we are developing groundbreaking technology with a world-class team on the critical path to ensuring a safe and beneficial future for humanity. If you want to do your life's work with us, even if you believe you do not meet every single requirement, apply now.

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