Lead Technical Talent Partner

About ActAI

ActAI is dedicated to creating intelligent applications for billions of users who currently rely on basic tools like email, notes, tasks, and calendars without AI integration. Our aim is to develop proactive, user-friendly solutions that enhance conversations, errands, organization, and workflows with minimal prompting. We focus on delivering highly reliable products that support long-running workflows, persistent context, and effective real-world task completion, while minimizing errors such as hallucinations. Our ultimate goal is to streamline people's lives, enabling them to concentrate on meaningful activities.

Role Overview

As the Lead Technical Recruiter, you will oversee critical searches for top technical talent, elevate recruiting standards across the team, and contribute to building ActAI's technical recruiting capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead priority technical recruiting efforts in AI/ML, engineering leadership, backend, infrastructure, web, and mobile domains.
• Develop comprehensive search strategies and talent maps targeting scarce technical talent globally.
• Personally identify, engage, evaluate, and secure senior and challenging-to-fill candidates.
• Maintain rigorous standards for assessing technical profiles, ensuring recruiters grasp candidates' genuine skills and work relevance before advancing them.
• Collaborate closely with engineering leaders to define hiring profiles, establish interview benchmarks, and identify weaknesses in recruitment pipelines.
• Mentor technical recruiters on sourcing tactics, candidate evaluation, engagement, and closing techniques.
• Monitor pipeline quality and recruitment data to detect and address search inefficiencies promptly.
• Create standardized recruiting practices that enhance hiring effectiveness and speed as the company grows.

Required Qualifications

• At least seven years of experience in technical recruiting, with major responsibility for senior and hard-to-fill engineering roles.
• Proven success in hiring high-caliber engineers using direct sourcing and headhunting methods.
• In-depth knowledge of technical talent markets and solid understanding of software engineering and AI/ML roles.
• Capability to differentiate outstanding technical accomplishments from superficial branding, titles, or resume keywords.
• Experience collaborating with senior engineering leadership on hiring strategies and candidate evaluation alignment.
• Skill in coaching recruiters to enhance their sourcing and assessment methods.
• Demonstrated sound judgment, strong sense of urgency, and readiness to stay actively involved in recruiting processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in leading or developing technical recruitment at AI-focused companies or fast-growing tech startups.
• Existing affiliations or networks within AI/ML and engineering communities.
• Experience recruiting across multiple regions including the US, Europe, and Asia.