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Salary: USD 160,000 - 260,000 / annual
Inworld AI is a research lab building world-class realtime voice models powering hundreds of millions of end users across health, fitness, learning, therapy, companions, customer experience, and media. The company has raised $125M+ from top-tier investors including Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Microsoft, Meta, and Founders Fund, and has been recognized as one of the 100 most promising AI companies globally.
You'll join as a senior recruiting leader owning end-to-end talent acquisition for critical and senior-level searches across engineering, research, and business functions. Operating as an executive search partner to founders and leadership, you'll be responsible for talent strategy, market mapping, pipeline building, and closing exceptional candidates in a highly competitive market.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning most critical and senior searches end-to-end, acting as a strategic talent partner to founders and leadership
- Advising hiring managers on role definitions, search strategy design, and expectation calibration
- Building deep pipelines of exceptional AI, engineering, research, and business talent through creative sourcing and relationship building with passive candidates
- Using data and metrics to drive recruiting decisions, track funnel health, diagnose bottlenecks, and report on hiring progress
- Leveraging AI tools (Claude, AI-native sourcing platforms) to automate workflows while maintaining high-touch candidate engagement
- Elevating recruiting practices through process improvement, interviewer quality enhancement, and team mentorship
- Representing Inworld as a credible ambassador for the company's mission and culture
You bring 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with several years supporting senior and hard-to-fill technical roles. You have deep understanding of technical roles and preferably experience hiring in AI/ML, infrastructure, or research environments. You're versatile across GTM, marketing, and business searches, with a proven track record closing exceptional senior talent in competitive markets. You're fluent with recruiting data and metrics, operate with a builder's mindset, and have hands-on experience with AI assistants and modern AI-native recruiting stacks. Experience in retained executive search or as a strategic search partner to founders is a strong plus.
You operate with high ownership, thrive in fast-moving startup environments, love optimizing workflows, hold a high bar for candidates and process quality, and communicate clearly with stakeholders at all levels.
