Growth Associate (Contract, Remote)

Patronus AI, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 69,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Patronus AI, Inc. is seeking Growth Associates to identify and funnel technical or specialist talent across multiple domains. You will evaluate public evidence (commits, credits, talks, papers) and initiate conversations with experts who are not actively applying.

You will work asynchronously, aiming to build a high-quality pipeline while meeting weekly targets. The role emphasizes output quality over volume and requires clear professional English writing.

Qualifications

• Three or more years sourcing technical or specialist talent with concrete examples.
• Explain your sourcing method without naming LinkedIn Recruiter.
• Name the last five people you found who were not applying and not on the first page.
• Be able to read GitHub profiles, game credits or papers to judge fit.
• Build your own tooling, automations or prompts rather than relying on subscriptions.
• You will be measured on candidate pass rates rather than volume.

Responsibilities

• Hit a weekly target for qualified experts added, by domain.
• Find people actively doing the work, with current engine versions and credits.
• Engage in venues used by target talent: GitHub, forums, Discord, conferences, studio credits, papers.
• Write outreach that withstands scrutiny from a senior engineer not actively seeking opportunities.
• Hand off cleanly with domain, seniority and evidence; minimize re-research.
• Report market signals back to the team and adjust domains as needed.
• Leverage AI for market mapping, research, outreach drafting and funnel analysis.

Skills

Talent sourcing

Technical fluency

Clear writing

Independent work

Automation tooling

Job description

About Patronus AI

Patronus AI is a frontier lab developing simulation research and infrastructure to accelerate progress toward human-aligned AGI. We are on a mission to simulate all of the world’s intelligence.

We are the team behind some of the earliest and most influential research in AI evaluation like FinanceBench, Lynx, SimpleSafetyTests, CopyrightCatcher, Humanity’s Last Exam, and more. We are formerly AI researchers and engineers from companies like Meta AI, Amazon AGI, and Google. Our customers include foundation model labs and Fortune 500 enterprises like Adobe. We are backed by top-tier investors like Lightspeed Venture Partners, Notable Capital, Stanford University, Noam Brown, Gokul Rajaram, and more.

At a glance

• Engagement: Independent contractor, fully remote
• Pay: $50 - $125/hr
• Start: Rolling
• Location: Remote
• Team: Talent Acquisition

The role

The data behind our work is produced by practicing domain experts on contract: Unreal engineers who ship games, software engineers, and specialists in whatever domain a customer needs next. We are hiring Growth Associates to find those people and get them into the funnel, across one to three domains each.

This is not a volume seat. Every expert you put forward sits a screener written by the people who will review their work, and you are measured on how many of them pass it rather than on how many you sent. A large pipeline that fails the screener is a bad week.

The people worth finding are rarely applying. They are shipping, and the evidence that they are good is public: commits, credits, talks, papers, answers in the forums their peers read. Your job is to read that evidence and start a conversation that someone with a job they like will reply to.

What you’ll do

• Hit a weekly target for qualified experts added, by domain, set with the Internal Strategic Projects Lead running the project.
• Find people doing the work now rather than people who did it once. In game development that means shipped credits and current engine versions, not a decade-old title.
• Work the venues these people actually use: GitHub, engine and framework forums, Discord servers, conference speaker lists, studio credits, paper author lists, specialist job boards. LinkedIn is one channel out of several.
• Write outreach that survives contact with a senior engineer who is not looking.
• Hand off clean. Every expert reaches the funnel with their domain, seniority and the evidence behind both, so nobody has to re-research them.
• Tell us what the market is telling you. If a domain is not there at the rate we want, we would rather hear it in week one.
• Use AI aggressively. Market mapping, research, outreach drafting and funnel analysis should all be automated as far as they can be, so your hours go to the judgment calls.

Who we’re looking for

Required

• Three or more years sourcing technical or specialist talent, including at least one hard pool you can describe in detail: who they were, where you found them, why that worked.
• A method you can explain without naming LinkedIn Recruiter. Where do these people gather, how did you work that out, what got you a reply.
• You can name the last five people you found who were not applying and not on the first page of results.
• Enough technical fluency to read a GitHub profile, a set of game credits or a paper and form your own view of whether the experience is real or adjacent.
• You build your own tooling. Scripts, automations, enrichment, prompts. Tell us about something you assembled rather than something you subscribe to.
• You are comfortable being measured on whether your candidates pass.
• Clear, precise writing in professional English. Your outreach is the first thing an expert reads about us.
• Ability to work independently and asynchronously against deadlines.

Nice to have

• Sourcing for professional knowledge work for a marketplace or contingent workforce at volume.
• Experience sourcing against a quality gate someone else owned.
• A genuine interest in AI evaluation, with a realistic view of both the potential and the limits.

What this role is not

You do not run interviews, extend offers or close. Full-cycle hiring sits with our technical recruiters.

How hiring works

• Resume review and a conversation with Talent Acquisition
• A short practical exercise on a live domain
• Onboarding and your first domain

Patronus AI is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.