Head of Technical Recruiting (AI)

Location: Remote, Hong Kong

Company

Building proactive AI applications that help people organise conversations, errands, workflows, and everyday life with minimal prompting.

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.
• Personally lead critical and senior searches from market mapping and headhunting through assessment, negotiation, and closing.
• Partner 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 while improving sourcing, assessment, and candidate management quality.
• Use recruiting data and market intelligence to improve hiring quality, speed, conversion, and scalable talent networks.

Requirements

• 10+ years of recruiting experience with 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, including the ability to assess technical contribution, complexity, and relevance.
• Demonstrated success hiring senior engineers, technical leaders, and other scarce talent through proactive headhunting.
• Experience building, managing, and improving technical recruiting teams.
• Ability to work directly with founders and engineering leaders, challenge assumptions, and translate priorities into executable hiring plans.

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 the US, Europe, and Asia.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement.
• Opportunity to build recruiting processes and talent networks across multiple global markets.
• Work focused on developing reliable, context-aware AI applications for real-world task completion.