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Head of Technical Recruiting
Bjak · Hong Kong · back to the listing
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What this role officially is
recruitment consultant — ESCO, the EU occupation classification
Recruitment consultants provide the suitable candidates to employers according to the specific job profile requested. They perform testing and interviewing with job seekers, shortlist few candidates to present to the employers and match candidates to appropriate jobs. Recruitment consultants maintain relationships with employers to offer their services on a more long-term basis.
Also known as: job placement consultant, recruiting process consultant, employment agent, recruitment officer, employee recruiter, job placement officer
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- Technical Recruiter Domu Technology Inc.
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What the listing never says
- 19 bullet points. Long requirement lists deter qualified candidates, who read them as hard gates. Scope clarity
- No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency
- No location or timezone policy stated, so a candidate cannot tell where they may work from. Scope clarity
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About ActAI
There are over 5 billion users using basic applications today such email, notes, tasks, calendar and they're not AI-native. Our mission is to build proactive applications for anyone in the world, who are not used to complex prompting. We aim to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organising and workflows, with minimal to no prompting.
Our product focuses on achieving high reliability for long-running workflows, persistent context, and real-world task completion. We believe products will greatly reduce hallucinations
Our objective is to organise anyone's life, allowing us all to spend time on valuable and meaningful things
About the Role
As Head of Technical Recruiting, you will own ActAI's global technical recruiting function and be accountable for building the engineering and AI teams required to scale the company.
What You Will Be Doing
• Own technical hiring across ActAI, including AI/ML, backend, infrastructure, web, mobile and engineering leadership.
• Build the technical recruiting strategy, team structure, hiring priorities and operating cadence required to meet company hiring goals.
• Personally lead searches for critical and senior hires, from market mapping and headhunting through assessment, offer negotiation and closing.
• Set the standard for candidate quality, ensuring recruiters evaluate actual technical contribution, complexity and relevance rather than relying on titles, companies or keywords.
• Partner directly with engineering and company leadership to define hiring bars, target profiles, interview processes and final hiring decisions.
• Build and coach a high-performing technical recruiting team, reviewing pipelines and raising the quality of sourcing, assessment and candidate management.
• Use recruiting data and market intelligence to identify bottlenecks, challenge ineffective searches and continuously improve hiring quality, speed and conversion.
• Build scalable recruiting processes and talent networks across the US, Europe and Asia without allowing process to replace judgement or execution.
What You Will Need
• 10+ years1 of recruiting experience with deep experience hiring software engineering, AI/ML or other highly technical talent.
• Proven track record building and leading technical recruiting for a high-growth technology company while remaining hands-on with critical searches.
• Strong understanding of engineering and AI talent markets, with the ability to assess the substance and relevance of highly technical profiles.
• Demonstrated success hiring senior engineers, technical leaders and other scarce talent through proactive headhunting.
• Experience building, managing and raising the performance of technical recruiting teams.
• Ability to work directly with founders and engineering leaders, challenge assumptions and translate company priorities into executable hiring plans.
• Strong judgement on talent, high execution speed and clear accountability for hiring outcomes.
Nice to Have
• Experience leading technical recruiting at an AI company, AI-native startup or high-growth technology company.
• Direct experience recruiting AI researchers, ML engineers, applied AI engineers and senior engineering leaders.
• Strong existing networks across global AI and engineering communities.
• Experience building technical teams across multiple markets, particularly the US, Europe and Asia.
Originally posted on Himalayas
There are over 5 billion users using basic applications today such email, notes, tasks, calendar and they're not AI-native. Our mission is to build proactive applications for anyone in the world, who are not used to complex prompting. We aim to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organising and workflows, with minimal to no prompting.
Our product focuses on achieving high reliability for long-running workflows, persistent context, and real-world task completion. We believe products will greatly reduce hallucinations
Our objective is to organise anyone's life, allowing us all to spend time on valuable and meaningful things
About the Role
As Head of Technical Recruiting, you will own ActAI's global technical recruiting function and be accountable for building the engineering and AI teams required to scale the company.
What You Will Be Doing
• Own technical hiring across ActAI, including AI/ML, backend, infrastructure, web, mobile and engineering leadership.
• Build the technical recruiting strategy, team structure, hiring priorities and operating cadence required to meet company hiring goals.
• Personally lead searches for critical and senior hires, from market mapping and headhunting through assessment, offer negotiation and closing.
• Set the standard for candidate quality, ensuring recruiters evaluate actual technical contribution, complexity and relevance rather than relying on titles, companies or keywords.
• Partner directly with engineering and company leadership to define hiring bars, target profiles, interview processes and final hiring decisions.
• Build and coach a high-performing technical recruiting team, reviewing pipelines and raising the quality of sourcing, assessment and candidate management.
• Use recruiting data and market intelligence to identify bottlenecks, challenge ineffective searches and continuously improve hiring quality, speed and conversion.
• Build scalable recruiting processes and talent networks across the US, Europe and Asia without allowing process to replace judgement or execution.
What You Will Need
• 10+ years1 of recruiting experience with deep experience hiring software engineering, AI/ML or other highly technical talent.
• Proven track record building and leading technical recruiting for a high-growth technology company while remaining hands-on with critical searches.
• Strong understanding of engineering and AI talent markets, with the ability to assess the substance and relevance of highly technical profiles.
• Demonstrated success hiring senior engineers, technical leaders and other scarce talent through proactive headhunting.
• Experience building, managing and raising the performance of technical recruiting teams.
• Ability to work directly with founders and engineering leaders, challenge assumptions and translate company priorities into executable hiring plans.
• Strong judgement on talent, high execution speed and clear accountability for hiring outcomes.
Nice to Have
• Experience leading technical recruiting at an AI company, AI-native startup or high-growth technology company.
• Direct experience recruiting AI researchers, ML engineers, applied AI engineers and senior engineering leaders.
• Strong existing networks across global AI and engineering communities.
• Experience building technical teams across multiple markets, particularly the US, Europe and Asia.
Originally posted on Himalayas