Technical Recruiter, APAC

Mistral; Singapore; Remote; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Relocation support

Meal and transportation allowances

Job summary

Mistral is looking for an experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist to scale our APAC recruiting across Singapore, Korea, India, Australia, and Japan. You will own end-to-end recruitment, partner with hiring managers, and drive processes that ensure high-quality hires while maintaining a strong candidate experience.

You will influence senior stakeholders, define recruiting best practices for APAC, and contribute to GTM and corporate roles as needed.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of total recruiting experience across agencies, startups, and enterprise environments.
• Ability to hire at high throughput at scale without compromising quality.
• Self-starter who is results-oriented, resourceful, and proactive.
• Deep technical recruiting experience: FDE, SWE, MLE, Research Eng, Applied Science.
• Comfort with tooling and automation, thinks in systems and scale.
• Experience recruiting in highly competitive talent markets.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruitment for Applied AI and Solutions across APAC.
• Partner with tech & business hiring managers to find world-changing talent.
• Drive sourcing, interviewing, and closing candidates.
• Identify unique candidates with entrepreneurial spirit and commitment.
• Guide candidates through the hiring process and showcase Mistral as an employer of choice.
• Refine recruiting processes, tools, and documentation for efficiency.
• Use data to diagnose process issues and propose improvements.
• Deliver a high-quality candidate experience in a competitive market.
• Collaborate to raise hiring standards and evolve APAC recruiting approaches.

Skills

Senior recruiting experience

High throughput hiring

Self-starter

Technical domain knowledge

Automation tooling

Complex recruiting

Competitive markets

Communication skills

Low ego

Strategic & hands-on

Stakeholder influence

Tools

Ashby

LinkedIn Recruiter

Vibe

Claude

Job description

About Mistral

Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems—across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector—co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms.

We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.

Role Summary

As an experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist on the APAC recruiting team, you will be instrumental in building and scaling teams at Mistral across the region - Singapore, Korea, India, Australia and Japan. You will get a wide breadth of exposure across roles, geographies, levels.

Joining Mistral in APAC today means you’ll sit at the intersection of recruiting strategy and best practice execution at scale. TAs at Mistral get a seat at the table, deep influence in decision making, and are sparring partners to hiring managers.

Your work will directly influence our success by ensuring we find and engage exceptional people who will drive Mistral’s growth. You will also foster a strong candidate experience to create a flywheel for our employer brand int he region. You will also help establish recruiting best practice by creating, documenting and scaling knowledge and playbooks.

What you will do

• Drive our hiring effort for Applied AI and Solutions, across the region, with some flexibility and open mindedness to contribute to GTM and Corporate roles, on a need basis

• Partner with our tech & business hiring managers to find world-changing talent for Mistral

• Own end-to-end recruitment, including sourcing, interviewing, and closing candidates

• Identify unique candidates who bring an entrepreneurial spirit, strong commitment and passion for success

• Guide candidates through our hiring process and introducing them to the magic of working at Mistral

• Develop and refine recruiting processes, tools, and documentation to improve outcomes and efficiency

• Use data to diagnose process issues and propose solutions

• Deliver a high-quality candidate experience in a competitive talent market

• Collaborate with others to continuously raise the bar for our hiring standards

• Contribute directly to defining and evolving our talent acquisition approach in APAC

About you

• 7+ years of total recruiting experience, ideally across a mix of agencies, high growth startups, and enterprise/corporate environments

• Demonstrated ability to hire at high throughput at scale, and in complex environments, never compromising quality

• Self-starter who is result-oriented, resourceful, innovative, intellectually curious, and who takes initiative and risks

• T-shaped with deep expertise in Technical roles: FDE, SWE, MLE, Research Eng, Applied Science

• Natural geek with tooling and automation, thinks in systems and scale, embraces the latest technologies, and has ideally built a thing or two

• Experience in complex recruiting and autonomous hiring in outbound contexts

• Experience working to recruit in highly competitive talent markets

• Strong written and verbal communication

• No ego and highly committed to deliver

• Able and keen to jump from strategic topics to very hands-on work

• Open learning mindset and fast learner, demonstrated capacity to quickly grasp new complex topics

• Capability, credibility, and consultative skills to influence senior colleagues and stakeholders without authority

• Organized, disciplined, and strong at project management

• Comfortable working within the ambiguity of a small, growing startup with a strong desire to turn that ambiguity into a well-defined machine

• Target driven, detail oriented, and approachable with the ability to prioritize and work well in an environment with competing demands

• Fluent in English and experience recruiting internationally

• Ideally, proficiency with Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, and AI tools (Vibe, Claude)

What We Offer

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance. Benefits vary by country and may include healthcare coverage, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, meal and transportation allowances, and other location-specific perks.

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