Lead Technical Recruiter (AI)

Location: Mountain View, California, USA

Base salary: $160,000–$260,000 per year, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a research lab and inference provider focused on real-time AI for consumer-facing applications, including speech models, LLM serving, high-volume inference infrastructure, and modular APIs.

What you will do

• Own critical and senior searches end to end, from talent strategy and market mapping through offers and closing.
• Partner with founders, executives, hiring managers, and leadership to define roles, calibrate expectations, design search strategies, and execute them.
• Build pipelines for AI, engineering, research, business, GTM, and marketing talent through creative sourcing and long-term relationships with passive candidates.
• Use recruiting data and metrics to track funnel health, diagnose bottlenecks, guide strategy, and report on hiring progress.
• Apply AI assistants, AI-native sourcing tools, automation, and internal tooling to improve recruiting workflows while maintaining personal candidate engagement.
• Improve recruiting processes and interviewer quality, ensure a strong candidate experience, mentor team members, and represent Inworld in the market.

Requirements

• 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 is strongly preferred.
• Ability to run GTM, marketing, or business searches alongside a core technical recruiting focus.
• Track record of closing exceptional senior talent in highly competitive markets.
• Fluency with recruiting data and metrics to drive strategy, influence stakeholders, and hold searches accountable.
• Builder’s mindset with experience creating tools, automation, and processes and rapidly prototyping improvements.
• Hands-on daily fluency with AI assistants and a human-centered approach to recruiting.
• Proficiency with a modern AI-native recruiting stack.
• Experience partnering directly with executives and hiring managers as a trusted advisor.
• Ability to operate with high ownership, work effectively in a fast-moving startup environment amid ambiguity, optimize workflows, maintain high standards, prioritize effectively, and communicate clearly.

Nice to have

• Experience in retained executive search or as a strategic search partner to founders and executives.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position with a base salary of $160,000–$260,000 per year.
• Bonus, equity, and benefits are included.
• High-ownership role with direct impact on the recruiting function and company growth.
• Fast-moving startup environment with shifting priorities and emphasis on continuous workflow improvement.