Lead Technical Recruiter
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What you'll do
- Lead priority searches across AI/ML, engineering leadership, backend, infrastructure, web and mobile
- Map talent pools and design sourcing plans for hard-to-find AI and engineering candidates worldwide
- Find, assess and close senior candidates, checking their technical work and depth before they advance
- Set hiring profiles and interview standards with engineering leaders, then address weak points in the funnel
- Coach recruiters, review pipeline data and improve search practices to raise hiring quality and speed
What you bring
- At least seven years in technical recruiting, including ownership of senior and challenging engineering searches
- A record of hiring strong engineers through direct outreach and headhunting
- Knowledge of engineering and AI/ML talent markets, with the judgment to assess work beyond titles or CV terms
- Experience shaping hiring plans with senior engineering leaders and developing recruiters’ sourcing and assessment skills
Who this fits
This role suits a senior recruiter who wants to stay hands-on while leading difficult technical searches and coaching other recruiters. You’ll work remotely from Hong Kong.
From the employer
About ActAI
There are over 5 billion users using basic applications today such email, notes, tasks, calendar and they're not AI-native. Our mission is to build proactive applications for anyone in the world, who are not used to complex prompting. We aim to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organising and workflows, with minimal to no prompting.
Our first application is an agent-first mobile communication app. We believe building applications that users use daily for communication, coordination and collaboration needs will help integrate AI into their lives. The net effect is to eliminate misinformation, achieve low coordination costs, enable high quality tasks and collaboration at scale with minimal or little prompting.
About the Role
As Lead Technical Recruiter, you will lead critical technical searches, raise recruiting quality across the team and help build ActAI's technical recruiting capability.
What You Will Be Doing
Lead ActAI's highest-priority technical searches across AI/ML, engineering leadership, backend, infrastructure, web and mobile.
Build search strategies and talent maps for scarce technical talent across global AI and engineering markets.
Personally source, engage, assess and close senior and difficult-to-hire candidates.
Set a high bar for technical profile assessment, ensuring recruiters understand candidates' actual work, technical depth and relevance before progressing them.
Partner closely with engineering leadership to define hiring profiles, calibrate interview standards and diagnose gaps in the recruiting funnel.
Coach technical recruiters on sourcing strategy, profile assessment, candidate engagement and closing.
Review pipeline quality and recruiting data, identify where searches are failing and change strategy quickly.
Develop repeatable recruiting practices that improve hiring quality and speed as ActAI scales.
What You Will Need
7+ years of technical recruiting experience, including significant ownership of senior and difficult engineering searches.
Strong track record hiring high-quality engineers through direct sourcing and headhunting.
Deep familiarity with technical talent markets and strong understanding of software engineering and AI/ML profiles.
Ability to distinguish exceptional technical work from strong branding, titles or CV keywords.
Experience partnering directly with senior engineering leaders on hiring strategy and calibration.
Demonstrated ability to coach recruiters and improve the quality of their sourcing and assessment.
Strong judgement, urgency and willingness to remain deeply hands-on.
Nice to Have
Experience building or leading technical recruiting at an AI company or high-growth technology startup.
Existing networks across AI/ML and engineering communities.
Experience hiring across multiple markets including the US, Europe and Asia.
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