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AfterQuery is an applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model development, serving frontier AI labs with the mission of delivering the best data to power the best models. The company is YC's fastest unicorn, valued at $3.2 billion, backed by leading investors including Altos Ventures, BoxGroup, Y Combinator, and angels from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Superintelligence Labs, and Microsoft AI.
This Business Recruiter role involves driving full-cycle hiring for business and operations functions including Strategic Projects, Operations, GTM, and other business-side functions. You will work closely with the Lead Business Recruiter and founding team to identify, attract, and close elite talent at the caliber of Jane Street, Citadel Securities, Meta, Google, Palantir, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Silver Lake, MBB consulting, top PE, and top hedge funds.
Key responsibilities include:
- Running full-cycle recruiting for business and operations roles — sourcing, screening, interviewing, and closing top-tier candidates
- Building deep, proactive talent pipelines from elite finance, consulting, PE, and tech firms and converting them
- Partnering with the Lead Business Recruiter and executive team to define hiring profiles, prioritize searches, and run rigorous interview processes
- Supporting recruiting infrastructure including scorecards, interview rubrics, sourcing tooling, candidate experience, and offer-and-close motion
- Closing candidates and representing AfterQuery's mission, momentum, and opportunity to high-bar talent
- Treating recruiting as a measurable function — tracking funnel, modeling conversion at each stage, and iterating on what works
The role requires a 5-day in-office presence in San Francisco, with a culture that prizes speed and direct feedback.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 4-7+ years of experience across agency and in-house recruiting with a track record of identifying, attracting, and closing strong talent
- Intense work ethic, agency, and drive; builder mentality and ability to thrive in ambiguity
- Competitive nature and demonstrated past success
- Strong communication skills — ability to engage with founders, traders, and GTM leaders; ability to build pipelines that founders trust
- Genuine interest in AfterQuery's thesis that the future of AI is bottlenecked on human data
- High agency, low ego, speedy but thoughtful approach; comfort in fast-paced, direct-feedback environment
BONUS QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience recruiting at top executive search firms (Spencer Stuart, Heidrick, Egon Zehnder, Russell Reynolds, True Search, Daversa) or strong in-house recruiting teams at high-growth tech/AI startups
- Prior experience hiring for finance, consulting, PE, or operationally rigorous business roles with personal network in those pools
- Track record in finance, consulting, search, or operating roles with demonstrated success and pivot into AI
