Head of Talent Acquisition & Recruiting (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA; hybrid

Company

hirify.global is an AI and machine translation company building brand-aware translation workflows that combine agentic AI, large language models, integrations, and human review.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle recruiting for the company’s highest-priority technical and go-to-market roles, from sourcing through closing.
• Build and manage AI agents for candidate sourcing, structured screening, assessment, and role-specific scoring.
• Coach and manage a small team of recruiters and sourcers while personally demonstrating high-quality recruiting practices.
• Redesign human interview loops around AI-validated candidates, with a special focus on the software engineering interview cycle.
• Own recruiting metrics including time-to-fill, pipeline conversion, AI-screen pass-through rate, quality of hire, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Partner with hiring managers and the VP of People on headcount planning, sourcing strategies, interview quality, and employer brand.

Requirements

• 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally across technical and go-to-market hiring in a high-growth or AI-centric company.
• Hands-on experience with AI-powered sourcing or screening tools, or the ability to design and operate agentic recruiting workflows from scratch.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, or informally leading recruiters and a track record of personally closing difficult roles.
• Ability to build scorecards, run calibrated interviews, evaluate talent rigorously, and communicate clearly with hiring managers and candidates.
• Comfort working with ambiguity, building processes from scratch, and independently analyzing recruiting funnel metrics.

Nice to have

• Experience integrating small teams or acquihires.
• Hands-on experience with Ashby ATS or a comparable modern recruiting platform.
• Recruiting experience in AI, machine learning, or localization and translation technology.
• Experience building or piloting AI agents or workflow automation.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a mission-driven environment focused on making information accessible across languages.
• Collaborate globally with engineering, sales, marketing, operations, and people teams.
• Operate according to the company virtues: working together, finding or creating solutions, moving quickly, and prioritizing quality.
• Use AI and automated tools to support application evaluation, while final hiring decisions remain human-led.
• Work in a company backed by Sequoia, Intel Capital, and Redpoint and focused on AI innovation in enterprise translation.