Lead Technical Recruiter

About the role

ActAI builds proactive applications for people who are not used to complex prompting, starting with an agent-first mobile communication app. As Lead Technical Recruiter, you will lead its highest-priority technical searches, raise recruiting quality across the team and help build ActAI's technical recruiting capability.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the 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, making sure recruiters understand candidates' actual work, technical depth and relevance.
• Partner 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.

Required profile

• 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 stay deeply hands-on.

Nice to have: experience building or leading technical recruiting at an AI company or high-growth tech startup; existing networks across AI/ML and engineering communities; experience hiring across the US, Europe and Asia.