We are looking for a Recruiting Lead to fuel our growth with extraordinary talent. This is a senior, high-ownership role: you'll act as a true talent partner to our founders and leadership across engineering, research, and business hiring as we scale. You'll own searches end to end, raise the bar on how we hire, and help shape the recruiting function itself. What you'll be doing • Own our most critical and senior searches end to end, operating as an executive search partner to our founders, from talent strategy and market mapping through offer and close • Act as a strategic advisor to hiring managers and leadership: shape role definitions, calibrate expectations, and design search strategies and execute them • Build deep pipelines of exceptional AI, engineering, research, and business talent through creative sourcing and long-term relationship building with passive candidates • Use data to drive decisions, track funnel health, diagnose bottlenecks, and report on hiring progress with rigor • Apply AI to recruiting: use assistants like Claude and AI-native sourcing and automation tools to automate workflows and build tooling that makes the whole team faster, while keeping candidate touchpoint personal and high-touch • Elevate our recruiting practice: improve processes, sharpen interviewer quality, ensure an exceptional candidate experience, and mentor others on the team • Represent Inworld in the market as a compelling, credible ambassador for our mission and culture What you'll bring • 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, including several years supporting senior and hard-to-fill technical roles • Deep understanding of technical roles, experience hiring in AI/ML, infrastructure, or research environments strongly preferred • Versatility to run GTM, marketing, or business searches alongside your core technical focus • A track record of closing exceptional senior talent in highly competitive markets • Fluency with recruiting data, you use metrics to drive strategy, influence stakeholders, and hold searches accountable • A builder's mindset, you love creating tools, automation, and processes, you prototype fast and improve as you go • Hands-on fluency with AI assistants, you already use them daily, and you're always finding new ways to work smarter while maintaining a human-centered approach • Proficiency with a modern AI-native recruiting stack • Experience partnering directly with executives and hiring managers as a trusted advisor • Experience in retained executive search, or as a strategic search partner to founders and executives, is a strong plus You're a fit for our team if • You operate with high ownership, you don't wait for direction, you set it • You thrive in a fast-moving startup environment and stay effective amid ambiguity and shifting priorities • You love optimizing workflows and constantly look for ways to improve how the team works • You hold a high bar, for candidates, for process quality, and for yourself • You're organized, prioritize ruthlessly, and communicate clearly with stakeholders at every level The base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 - $260,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location, level, and additional factors, including competencies, experience, and business needs. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.