AI-Driven Talent Acquisition Lead

Deepgram; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Deepgram seeks a senior Talent Acquisition leader to build and scale a world-class recruiting team across engineering, research, and go-to-market functions. You will own full-cycle recruitment, design AI-assisted sourcing workflows, and partner with leaders to align hiring with business goals.

You will coach and develop recruiters, optimize funnel performance, and implement scalable processes that improve time-to-fill and hire quality.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of recruiting experience, including leadership or managing recruiters.
• Experience hiring across technical and go-to-market functions in a high-growth technology or AI company.
• Experience recruiting for engineering and/or research roles.
• Hands-on experience with modern recruiting tools such as Ashby, Metaview, and Juicebox.
• Has built AI-assisted recruiting workflows or automation that meaningfully improved how a recruiting team operates.

Responsibilities

• Manages a recruiting team — sets priorities, manages capacity, coaches performance, and holds the team accountable for outcomes
• Runs full-cycle recruiting — can personally step into sourcing, interviewing, closing, and complex searches when needed
• Operates AI-native — builds Human+AI workflows into sourcing, screening, research, and pipeline operations rather than treating AI as an add-on
• Builds scalable recruiting systems — identifies recurring work and creates processes, automation, and tooling that eliminate it
• Uses data to diagnose problems — understands funnel health, capacity, and conversion, and gets to the root cause rather than adding more process
• Develops people — gives direct feedback, creates clear expectations, supports career growth, and raises the capability of the team
• Raises the quality of hiring — coaches hiring managers on structured interviewing, drives strong decision-making, and is comfortable challenging senior stakeholders

Skills

Recruiting leadership

Full-cycle recruiting

AI-assisted recruiting

Technical recruiting

Go-to-market hiring

Sourcing tools (Ashby)

Sourcing tools (Metaview)

Sourcing tools (Juicebox)

People coaching

Tools

Ashby

Metaview

Juicebox

Job description

Deepgram seeks a senior Talent Acquisition leader to build and scale a world-class recruiting team across engineering, research, and go-to-market functions. You will own full-cycle recruitment, design AI-assisted sourcing workflows, and partner with leaders to align hiring with business goals.

You will coach and develop recruiters, optimize funnel performance, and implement scalable processes that improve time-to-fill and hire quality.