[Hiring] Lead Technical Talent Partner @Bjak

Role Description

As Lead Technical Recruiter, you will lead critical technical searches, raise recruiting quality across the team and help build ActAI's technical recruiting capability.

• Lead ActAI's highest-priority technical searches across AI/ML, engineering leadership, backend, infrastructure, web and mobile.
• Build search strategies and talent maps for scarce technical talent across global AI and engineering markets.
• Personally source, engage, assess and close senior and difficult-to-hire candidates.
• Set a high bar for technical profile assessment, ensuring recruiters understand candidates' actual work, technical depth and relevance before progressing them.
• Partner closely with engineering leadership to define hiring profiles, calibrate interview standards and diagnose gaps in the recruiting funnel.
• Coach technical recruiters on sourcing strategy, profile assessment, candidate engagement and closing.
• Review pipeline quality and recruiting data, identify where searches are failing and change strategy quickly.
• Develop repeatable recruiting practices that improve hiring quality and speed as ActAI scales.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical recruiting experience, including significant ownership of senior and difficult engineering searches.
• Strong track record hiring high-quality engineers through direct sourcing and headhunting.
• Deep familiarity with technical talent markets and strong understanding of software engineering and AI/ML profiles.
• Ability to distinguish exceptional technical work from strong branding, titles or CV keywords.
• Experience partnering directly with senior engineering leaders on hiring strategy and calibration.
• Demonstrated ability to coach recruiters and improve the quality of their sourcing and assessment.
• Strong judgement, urgency and willingness to remain deeply hands-on.

Nice to Have

• Experience building or leading technical recruiting at an AI company or high-growth technology startup.
• Existing networks across AI/ML and engineering communities.
• Experience hiring across multiple markets including the US, Europe and Asia.