Job Description - Senior Technical Recruiter
Location: San Francisco (on-site at our offices)
The Opportunity
Artificial Analysis is hiring at least 40 people this year: members of technical staff, engineers, forward deployed engineers, and commercial and operations roles, across San Francisco, Australia and beyond. Today that hiring runs through our Chief of Staff and hiring managers on top of their day jobs. We're hiring our first in-house recruiter, a Senior Technical Recruiter, to own it end to end.
You will be the engine behind the most important thing we do this year, and it will run at pace. We hold an unusually high bar, our roles cut across technical and commercial profiles, and the candidates we want are rarely looking: AI is a tight industry and the experienced hires we target make proactive outbound the default, not the exception. The job is to find them, run a process they enjoy losing to, and keep a dozen searches moving at once without letting quality slip.
You'll work directly with our founders, Chief of Staff and hiring managers. Our interview process keeps senior leadership closely involved, so expect to ramp fast on what we do, learn what makes this team special, and get very good at spotting the signal we hire for early, so leadership time goes to the right candidates. We expect you to know the product well enough to represent Artificial Analysis to candidates the way we represent it to customers. As our hiring needs grow, this seat has real potential to grow into leading a recruiting team. Your impact will be visible in every team photo from here on.
What You'll Do
• Own Full-Cycle Recruiting: Sourcing, screening, pipeline management, scheduling, references and close across all open roles
• Source Proactively: Find the technical generalists, senior engineers and specialist leads who are not on the market
• Run the Hiring Process: Structured stages, fast turnarounds, clean handoffs between interviewers, and an ATS that reflects reality
• Deliver a Candidate Experience Worthy of the Brand: Responsive, direct, and respectful of people's time, including thoughtful rejections
• Know the Product: Build a real understanding of our benchmarks and the AI landscape, and represent Artificial Analysis to candidates the way we represent it to customers
• Calibrate Bars with Hiring Managers: Sharpen role specs, debrief rigorously, push back when a search is defined wrong, and learn the signal our leadership-led interviews select for so you can spot it at the top of the funnel
• Manage External Partners: Agencies and headhunters where we use them, including retained searches for senior roles
• Become AI-Native: Embrace an AI-native workflow, using cutting-edge AI tools for sourcing, screening and coordination to run leaner than a traditional recruiting function
What We're Looking For
Required:
• 3+ years of full-cycle recruiting with demonstrable ownership of searches from brief to signed offer, including substantial technical recruiting (engineering, ML, or technical generalist profiles)
• Strong outbound sourcing ability: you find experienced people who are not looking, you do not just process applicants
• Appetite to master what we do: you will ramp hard on our product and the AI landscape, and hold your own with senior technical candidates
• Exceptional organization across parallel searches, with fast, reliable follow-through
• Strong written communication and judgment representing a company to senior candidates
• High discretion: you will handle compensation and sensitive team information daily
Valuable, not expected in full:
• In-house experience at a startup that scaled quickly, or agency experience with a top technical practice
• Familiarity with modern ATS and sourcing tooling, and comfort building light process from scratch
• Experience hiring across countries and time zones
Competitive compensation including equity
