Manger of Technical Recruiting

Location: Seoul, South Korea; hybrid work

Company

Builds proactive AI-native applications that help people manage conversations, errands, organization, and workflows with minimal prompting, persistent context, and reliable long-running task completion.

What you will do

• Own technical hiring across AI/ML, backend, infrastructure, web, mobile, and engineering leadership.
• Develop the technical recruiting strategy, team structure, hiring priorities, and operating cadence.
• Lead critical and senior searches from market mapping and headhunting through assessment, offer negotiation, and closing.
• Partner with founders, engineering leaders, and company leadership to define hiring bars, target profiles, interview processes, and final hiring decisions.
• Build and coach a high-performing technical recruiting team while improving sourcing, assessment, and candidate management.
• Use recruiting data and market intelligence to identify bottlenecks and improve hiring quality, speed, and conversion across the US, Europe, and Asia.

Requirements

• 10+ years of recruiting experience, including deep experience hiring software engineering, AI/ML, or other highly technical talent.
• Proven experience 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 and the ability to assess the substance and relevance of technical profiles.
• Demonstrated success hiring senior engineers, technical leaders, and other scarce talent through proactive headhunting.
• Experience building, managing, and improving technical recruiting teams.
• Ability to challenge assumptions, translate company priorities into executable hiring plans, and maintain 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 networks across global AI and engineering communities.
• Experience building technical teams across the US, Europe, and Asia.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work in Seoul, South Korea.
• Work on proactive AI applications designed for users who are not accustomed to complex prompting.
• Focus on reliable long-running workflows, persistent context, and real-world task completion.