Senior Recruiter
At a glance
Senior Recruiting & Talent Acquisition role at Mirage. New York · full-time · $150,000–$200,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Run complex searches from kickoff through accepted offers, including senior and specialized business, product and design roles
- Help hiring leaders define candidate profiles, set evaluation standards and weigh tradeoffs
- Find and build relationships with sought-after candidates, including people not currently looking
- Lead candidate assessments, debriefs and tailored closing plans, then negotiate complex offers
- Use recruiting data and market signals to unblock searches, mentor teammates and build AI agent workflows
What you bring
- At least five years in recruiting or a related people function, including three years independently closing full-cycle searches
- A record of hiring across business or technical teams for senior, specialized and hard-to-fill positions
- Sound judgment in defining hiring needs, evaluating candidates and advising leaders with data and market context
- Strong sourcing and offer-negotiation skills, including engaging sought-after candidates in competitive searches
Who this fits
You’ll suit work that combines independent ownership of difficult searches with close partnership across hiring teams. The role also calls for mentoring teammates and improving recruiting practices. Most roles require in-person work at the New York City headquarters in Union Square.
From the employer
Mirage is an AI video company focused on making creation dramatically easier. Our team tackles some of the hardest creative and technical challenges in generative media.
We get to rethink how people collaborate with AI that can actually do creative work with them—defining entirely new interaction paradigms for AI-native video tools. We make that possible by building multimodal agents that turn creative direction into edits, rendering engines that composite multiple layers of video and graphics, and generative video models trained from the ground up that create new media when needed.
All of this comes together in Captions, our creative workspace for generating, editing, and designing video. The technology behind Captions is now available more broadly: Tesseract gives any AI agent native video-editing capabilities, while developers can integrate our models into their own products through APIs.
Explore our work
Captions — Our flagship creative workspace
Tesseract — Our professional video engine for AI agents
Research — The foundation models we build in-house
Updates — The latest from Mirage
TechCrunch, Forbes, Fast Company — Press
Our Investors
We’re very fortunate to have some the best investors and entrepreneurs backing us, including Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Uncommon Projects, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, Lenny Rachitsky, Antoine Martin, Julie Zhuo, Ben Rubin, Jaren Glover, SVAngel, 20VC, Ludlow Ventures, Chapter One, and more.
Please note that most of our roles will require you to be in-person at our NYC HQ (located in Union Square)
About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Business Recruiter to lead complex hiring across Mirage’s Product, Design, and business teams, including Marketing, Sales, Finance, People, and Operations. You’ll partner closely with hiring managers and functional leaders to translate evolving business needs into clear hiring plans and bring structure to challenging searches.
You’ll independently own a portfolio that includes senior, specialized, and difficult-to-fill roles. We’ll look to you to diagnose stalled searches, challenge assumptions with evidence, and navigate competitive closes. Beyond delivering hires, you’ll strengthen hiring decisions and lead practical improvements that help Mirage attract, assess, and close exceptional talent.
Responsibilities:
Independently lead complex, senior, and specialized searches from kickoff through offer acceptance.
Advise hiring managers and functional leaders on candidate profiles, evaluation criteria, and hiring tradeoffs.
Build targeted sourcing campaigns and relationships with sought-after talent, including candidates not actively exploring opportunities.
Guide assessments and debriefs, shape tailored closing strategies, and lead complex offer negotiations.
Use data and market insights to diagnose recruiting challenges, prioritize opportunities, and align stakeholders on changes that improve hiring outcomes.
Mentor teammates and develop AI agent workflows that streamline operations and strengthen recruiting execution.
Qualifications
5+ years of experience in recruiting or related people functions, including 3+ years independently managing and closing full-cycle searches.
A track record of hiring across business or technical functions, including senior, specialized, and difficult-to-fill roles.
Sound judgment in clarifying hiring needs, assessing candidates, and advising leaders, supported by data and market insights.
Strong sourcing and closing skills, with experience engaging sought-after talent and navigating competitive offer negotiations.
A collaborative approach to recruiting, with clear communication, reliable follow-through, and experience partnering across teams to improve hiring outcomes.
Humility and self-awareness, with openness to feedback, a willingness to learn from others, and a commitment to sharing knowledge.
Startup or high-growth technology experience is a strong plus!
Benefits:
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
401K with employer match
Commuter Benefits
Catered lunch multiple days per week
Dinner stipend every night if you're working late and want a bite!
Grubhub subscription
Health & Wellness Perks
Multiple team offsites per year with team events every month
Generous PTO policy
Captions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Please note benefits apply to full time employees only.