Senior Talent Partner - Tech
At a glance
Senior Recruiting & Talent Acquisition role at Wordsmith AI. New York · full-time · $140,000–$200,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Deliver quarterly R&D hires across engineering, applied AI, data science, product management and design
- Set role expectations with product and engineering leaders, then run a fair process built to identify strong candidates
- Find engineers through GitHub, research communities, alumni networks and competitor teams, using AI-personalized outreach
- Keep technical interviews moving with focused take-homes, calibrated interviewers and debriefs within a day
- Review funnel results each week, improve what the data flags and close candidates through their first day
What you bring
- At least five years in full-cycle recruiting, including three years hiring software engineers at product-led tech companies
- You can discuss stacks, levels and system design with engineers and recognize weak evidence
- You can quantify hires per quarter, offer acceptance and the performance of people you recruited
- Most recent hires came from your own sourcing; you have used Ashby or a comparable ATS and AI in your workflow
Who this fits
This is a senior, hands-on recruiting role focused on R&D hiring, rather than coordination. The role is onsite in New York and covers hiring from intake through a candidate’s first day. Hiring AI, ML or LLM engineers is valued, as are product management and design hires and UK relocation experience involving visa sponsorship.
From the employer
Wordsmith
Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams, and we are growing fast.
We believe in-house legal is becoming one of the most important functions in the AI era. Every business is moving faster, but legal work is still too often scattered across inboxes, chats, documents, and disconnected systems.
Wordsmith brings that work into one system. Requests come in from across the business, AI agents handle the routine, lawyers stay in control where judgment matters, and every step is captured as work happens.
We are built for in-house legal, not law firms. Our goal is to help legal teams move faster, reduce unnecessary external counsel spend, and become a function the business can run with.
The Role
Our product is only as good as the people who build it. You'll own R&D hiring from intake to signed offer: Product Engineers, Applied AI and LLM Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers and Designers. You'll partner with engineering and product leaders to define what great looks like at each level, run technical processes that candidates respect, and close people who have offers from AI labs and big tech. This is not a coordination role.
What You'll Do
Deliver bar-raising R&D hires each quarter
Own a robust, fair and fast recruiting process that is optimized to hire the best talent vs the best interviewers
Source engineers directly: GitHub, research communities, alumni networks and competitor teams, with AI-personalised outreach
Run technical loops that move fast: tight take-homes, calibrated interviewers, debriefs within 24 hours
Own the candidate from first message to first day, and close against higher cash with equity, scope and the problem
Report on your funnel every week and fix what the data shows
What We're Looking For
Essential
5+ years of full-cycle recruiting, with at least 3 hiring software engineers at product-led tech companies
Comfortable discussing stacks, levels and system design with engineers, and spotting weak signal
A track record you can put numbers on: hires per quarter, offer acceptance, how your hires performed
Most of your recent hires sourced by you, not from inbound
Fluency with Ashby or a similar ATS, and real use of AI in your own workflow
Valued
Hired AI, ML or LLM engineers
Hired product managers and designers alongside engineering
Relocated engineers into the UK, including visa sponsorship
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